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American Women Quarters | Anna May Wong Quarter

Maya Angelou and Sally Ride were the first recipients of the American Women’s Quarters award. American Women Quarters™ has recognized and celebrated women’s contributions to our nation from its conception. Five new reverse designs will be offered by the US Mint each year during the period 2022–2025. George Washington previously appeared on the coin’s obverse, but this is a new design.


Abolition, government, the arts, science, and space are topics explored in American Women Quarters. The honorees will come from different ethnic, racial, and geographical backgrounds.


Within the first four months of the calendar year 2021, the American Women Quarters Program received more than 11,000 submissions for consideration as coin subjects.

From March to June 2021, the National Women’s History Museum accepted submissions on its website. Recommendations were added to a pool of potential quarter-dollar program honorees for 2022–2025, with five-quarter dollars released each year.


Additionally, museum officials and the Congressional Bipartisan Women’s Caucus might suggest separately.


Each of the chosen honorees’ images has the distinction of being featured on the reverses of the program’s circulating quarter dollars, along with an image of George Washington from American sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser as the obverse.


Passed legislation (Public Law 116–330) establishing the American Women Quarters Program enacted in 2020. As a result, high-grade and NGC Certified Women Quarters are for sale on this website. This collection will only be available for a limited time, and please bookmark this website to ensure you receive them all.


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Women’s Quarters of the United States.

The 2022 Quarters will feature the following names:

Dr. Sally Kristen Ride — a pioneer of American space travel, astronaut, educator

Maya Angelou — Performer, activist, and author

Wilma Pearl Mankiller — The first woman to serve as Cherokee principal chief

Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren — First woman in New Mexico to be elected to the senate and lead a New Mexico school district

Anna May Wong — the first Asian-American woman to break into Hollywood

Obverse Design.


Laura Gardin Fraser sculpted and composed the original artwork found on the reverse of every nina otero warren quarter. Mellon ultimately chose this design for Washington’s 200th birthday quarter, initially proposed for the 1932 quarter. In the early 1900s, she and other women sculptors were prolific. A woman’s face appeared on the first American half dollar in 1921, the Alabama Centennial Half Dollar. In 1999, the gold coin commemorating the death of George Washington utilized her design.

Process for selecting designs.


Smithsonian Institution and National Museum of American Women’s History selected the honorees with the women’s bipartisan caucus in Congress. In addition, Congress passed a bill directing the US Department of the Treasury to consult with the National Women’s History Museum, the American Women’s History Initiative of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Bipartisan Women’s Caucus to identify prominent American women be honored on quarters in the next four years.


The Anna May Wong Quarter Program coins will feature these trailblazing women beginning February 7, 2022. A website hosted by the National Women’s History Museum invited the public to submit recommendations.

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