Program overview

The American Women Quarters Program is a four year series from the U.S. Mint honoring women who shaped American history across government, science, the arts, civil rights, sports, and more. It was authorized by the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 and commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which secured voting rights for many American women in 1920.

From 2022 through 2025, the Mint released five new reverse designs each year for 20 quarters in all. Every coin shares the same obverse, a right facing portrait of George Washington originally designed by Laura Gardin Fraser in 1931 and finally put into production nine decades later. The series replaced the America the Beautiful quarters and is one of the better coin roll hunting opportunities to hit circulation in years, since low mintage dates started showing up in ordinary pocket change.

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Program specifications

These specs apply to every coin in the series, only the reverse design and mintage figures change from honoree to honoree.

• Composition (standard, circulating clad): 91.67% copper, 8.33% nickel
• Composition (silver proof): 99.9% silver
• Diameter: 24.26 mm (0.955 in)
• Weight: 5.67 g standard, 6.34 g silver proof
• Edge: 119 reeds
• Obverse: George Washington, designed by Laura Gardin Fraser (portrait originally submitted in 1931, later chosen for this series)

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Meet the honorees

Tap into any year below for the full history, design story, mintage breakdown, and collector notes for that quarter.

2022 quarters

• Maya Angelou, first Black woman honored on U.S. currency
• Sally Ride, first American woman in space and first LGBT person on U.S. currency
• Wilma Mankiller, first woman to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
• Nina Otero-Warren, first Hispanic American honored on U.S. currency
• Anna May Wong, first Asian American honored on U.S. currency

2023 quarters

• Bessie Coleman, first Black woman and first Native American woman to hold a pilot license
• Edith Kanakaʻole, first Native Hawaiian honored on U.S. currency
• Eleanor Roosevelt, longest serving First Lady and later a U.N. diplomat
• Jovita Idar, Mexican American journalist and civil rights advocate
• Maria Tallchief, America’s first major prima ballerina

2024 quarters

• Pauli Murray, civil rights lawyer, author, and the first Black woman ordained an Episcopal priest
• Patsy Takemoto Mink, first woman of color elected to Congress and a lead author of Title IX
• Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman ever awarded the Medal of Honor
• Celia Cruz, first Afro-Latina honored on U.S. currency
• Zitkala-Ša, Yankton Dakota writer and activist for Native American rights

2025 quarters

• Ida B. Wells, investigative journalist and anti-lynching crusader
• Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA
• Dr. Vera Rubin, astronomer whose work provided key evidence for dark matter, and the first Jewish person on U.S. currency
• Stacey Park Milbern, disability justice activist
• Althea Gibson, first Black athlete to break the color barrier in top level tennis

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Is this series worth collecting?

Almost every American Women quarter you find in circulation is worth face value, twenty five cents, since the Mint struck hundreds of millions of most dates. The exceptions are the tail end of the series. Mintages dropped sharply for 2025, especially Vera Rubin, Stacey Park Milbern, and Althea Gibson, which had well under half the mintage of a typical 2022 or 2023 release. Those later dates are worth checking rolls and boxes for now, before they thin out of circulation the way early America the Beautiful low mintage dates eventually did.

Collectors chasing more than face value coins usually look at the silver proof sets, struck in 99.9% silver for collectors rather than circulation, and at top graded Mint State examples in red or fully struck condition, which can bring modest premiums for the lowest mintage 2025 dates.

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What comes after the American Women Quarters?

The series wrapped up with the Althea Gibson quarter in October 2025. Up next is a 2026 quarter set tied to the United States Semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of American independence, which includes one design honoring a woman among its five coins. After that, a youth sports themed quarter series is planned to run from 2027 through 2030.