Now that I have this American Women quarters set in hand my favorite genuinely surprises me

My silvers

My Clads

 

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Colorized?

 

Evidently not.

 

I'm not going to weigh in. I think in a case as this, we will all find ourselves in 100% disagreement much of the time. For example, IMO someone did a disservice to Maya because what looks like a simplistic, stick design made by a rookie apprentice is COMPLETLY DIFFERENT in visual impact and artful design from the others which are beautifully executed.

I posted an opinion. Forget about it.

 

I'm a Dr. Sally Ride fan myself. The only quarters I am saving this year are the 2022 quarters I get in change. A bunch of jerks from India or some other country hacked my Amazon account and my checking account for about a thousand bucks. I closed all of my accounts and have gone to my bank for a fraud case. I was told that they couldn't do anything about Amazon, but they can get my money back in our bank account. These idiots locked up our computers and the only way we could get them back was to call them. The whole scheme is that they address themselves as Microsoft tech support and we would have to pay a fee to get access back by paying an annual fee. I'm 74 and have a background in finance and I was duped into this. Be careful. The worse thing is that all of my Enrollments got frozen and I lost them because I had to wait for a new bank card to list. I don't blame the Mint, although they were a day late and a dollar short on this.

 

I like Maya best.

 

My Sally P is Top Pop at MS67

 

I’ve got too much time on my hands so I’m gonna make this post. Yeah ... I could just put up links ... but an ordinary monkey could do that. I’m more sorta like a special monkey.

#1 ...

The Maya Angelou Quarter is the first coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program. Maya Angelou was a celebrated writer, performer, and social activist. She rose to international prominence as an author after the publication of her groundbreaking autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Angelou’s published works of verse, non-fiction, and fiction include more than 30 bestselling titles.

Angelou’s remarkable career encompasses dance, theater, journalism, and social activism. She appeared in Broadway and off-Broadway plays, including “Cabaret for Freedom,” which she wrote with Godfrey Cambridge. At the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., she served as northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1978, she was a National Book Award judge for biography and autobiography.

Angelou read “On the Pulse of Morning” at the 1992 inauguration of President Clinton. Angelou’s reading marked the first time an African American woman wrote and presented a poem at a presidential inauguration. She was also only the second poet in history to do so, following Robert Frost, who recited a poem at President Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961.

Angelou received more than 30 honorary degrees and was inducted into the Wake Forest University Hall of Fame for Writers. In 2010, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also the 2013 recipient of the Literarian Award, an honorary National Book Award for contributions to the literary community.

 

#2 ...

The Dr. Sally Ride Quarter is the second coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program. Dr. Sally Ride was a physicist, astronaut, educator, and the first American woman to soar into space.

When she blasted off aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, Ride became the first American woman – and, at 32, the youngest American – in space. During the six days of mission STS-7, she deployed and retrieved a satellite with the shuttle’s robotic arm. Her second shuttle flight, STS-41G, made history as the first space mission with two female crew members.

After her historic spaceflight, Ride saw that her example was a powerful tool for inspiring young people, especially girls, to pursue careers in science. She teamed up with Tam O’Shaughnessy to write six science books for young people. “The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth from Space,” won the American Institute of Physics’ Children’s Science Writing Award in 1995.

To narrow the gender gap in science and engineering careers, Ride and O’Shaughnessy started an education company to inspire young people, especially girls, in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In 2001, they joined like-minded friends with expertise in physics, administration, and technology to found Sally Ride Science. One of Ride’s goals in starting the Sally Ride Science organization was to make sure girls and boys of all backgrounds had access to role models who looked like them.

Ride received many honors during her life, including induction into the Astronaut Hall of Fame, National Women’s Hall of Fame, and Aviation Hall of Fame.

 

#3 ...

The Wilma Mankiller Quarter is the third coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program. Wilma Mankiller was the first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and an activist for Native American and women’s rights.

She was born in the Cherokee Nation in 1945. After drought devastated her family’s land in the 1950s, her family was moved to a housing project in California, where the adolescent Mankiller experienced culture shock, exacerbated by poverty and racism.

After Mankiller returned to the Cherokee Nation in 1977, she founded the Community Development Department for the Cherokee Nation. She led the creation of community water systems and rehabilitation of houses during the administration of Principal Chief Ross Swimmer. In 1983, Swimmer named Mankiller his running mate in his bid for re-election. When they won, Mankiller became the first woman elected deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation. After Swimmer left office to lead the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, she became principal chief.

Mankiller was elected chief in 1987, and four years later, re-elected in a landslide. She tripled her tribe’s enrollment, doubled employment, and built new housing, health centers, and children’s programs in northeast Oklahoma. Under her leadership, infant mortality declined and educational levels rose. Her leadership on social and financial issues made her tribe a national role model. After leaving office in 1995, she remained a strong voice worldwide for social justice, native people, and women.

Mankiller received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, the highest honor given to civilians in the United States. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1993.

 

#4 ...

The Nina Otero-Warren Quarter is the fourth coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program. Nina Otero-Warren was a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools.

Otero-Warren emphasized the necessity of using the Spanish language in the suffrage fight in order to reach Hispanic women. She also spearheaded the lobbying effort to ratify the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.

Otero-Warren strove to improve education for all New Mexicans and worked to advance bicultural education and to preserve cultural practices among the state’s Hispanic and Native American communities.

In 1921, she became the first Hispanic woman to run for Congress, although she was defeated in the general election.

 

#5 ...

The Anna May Wong Quarter is the fifth coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program. Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood.

Wong was born January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles. Her birth name was Wong Liu Tsong, and her family gave her the English name Anna May. She was cast in her first role as an extra in the film “The Red Lantern” (1919) at 14 and continued to land small roles as extras until her first leading role in “The Toll of the Sea” (1922).

Her career spanned motion pictures, television, and theater. She appeared in more than 60 movies, including silent films and one of the first movies made in Technicolor. Wong also became the first Asian American lead actor in a U.S. television show for her role in “The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong” (1951).

After facing constant discrimination in Hollywood, Wong traveled to Europe and worked in English, German, and French films. She also appeared in productions on the London and New York stages.

Wong was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. She died on February 3, 1961. She is remembered as an international film star, fashion icon, television trailblazer, and a champion for greater representation of Asian Americans in film. She continues to inspire actors and filmmakers today.

 

As proper reference ... kinda ... Thank You U.S. MINT.

https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters

 

The Sally design is the best of the group. The other 4 you could get a million guesses and never figure out who its supposed to be without their names being written on it

 

From the Mint:

The Woman Behind the Long-Awaited Obverse Quarter Design
By Jill Westeyn
November 8, 2021


Sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser. (©Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Contributions of American women have often been overlooked, but that is about to change. Literally. Beginning in 2022, the American Women Quarters™ Program will feature reverse designs honoring distinguished American women. One woman’s design, created 90 years ago, will take its place as the program’s common obverse: the unifying element of the program. Learn more about Laura Gardin Fraser and the story of this long-awaited obverse design.

Laura Gardin Fraser (1889-1966) was one of the most prolific female sculptors of the early 20th century. Her output is lauded in both numismatic and artistic circles. Her work, from hand-sized to larger-than-life-sized, is the subject of numerous coins, medals, statues, and monuments.

Born Laura Gardin in 1889, she was introduced to art and clay sculpture at an early age by her mother. Her fondness grew with age and she formally studied sculpture at the Art Students League (ASL) in New York from 1907 to 1911. She won several awards while in school, establishing herself early on in her career.

In 1913, Laura Gardin married her former instructor, James Earle Fraser. A year later, they moved to Westport, Connecticut, and shared a studio together. Prior to her marriage, she received a commission from Women’s Home Companion to design and sculpt the Better Babies medal (1913). Many of her early works are small-scale, such as this one, and many feature animals – a lifelong love of hers. While people think of her as a sculptor as a result of her marriage, she was an established artist prior to becoming “Mrs. James Earle Fraser.”

Laura Gardin Fraser elevated numismatic art with her work on numerous medals: Congressional Medals; the U.S. Army and Navy Chaplains medal; the George Washington Bicentennial medal; and medals for the National Geographic Society, the American Bar Association, and the National Sculpture Society; to name several.

Additionally, her work on commemorative coins for the United States Mint are significant as well. She became the first woman to design a U.S. commemorative coin when she designed the reverse of the 1921 Alabama Centennial Half Dollar.

Fraser’s work with the U.S. Mint also includes the:

• 1922 Grant Memorial Half Dollar and Gold Dollar
• 1925 Fort Vancouver Centennial Half Dollar

She worked together with her husband on the 1926 Oregon Trail Memorial Half Dollar commemorative coin – the only work they truly collaborated on.

George Washington Quarter Obverse
In 1931, Congress held a competition to design a coin to honor the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth. The original competition called for the obverse of the coin to feature a portrait of George Washington, based on the famed life-mask bust by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. The reverse was to feature a design that was to be “national” in nature.

Laura Gardin Fraser submitted a design that features a right-facing portrait of George Washington on the obverse, while the reverse shows an eagle with wings spread wide. In a 1932 letter to recommend Fraser’s design, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) wrote to (then) Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon:

“This bust is regarded by artists who have studied it as the most authentic likeness of Washington. Such was the skill of the artist in making this life-mask that it embodies those high qualities of the man’s character which have given him a place among the great of the world…Simplicity, directness, and nobility characterize it. The design has style and elegance…The Commission believes that this design would present to the people of this country the Washington whom they revere.”

While her design was popular, it was not chosen. Instead, Secretary Mellon ultimately selected the left-facing John Flanagan design, which has appeared on the quarter’s obverse since 1932.

Fraser’s design, however, was not forgotten. The Mint revived it 68 years later for the 1999 George Washington Commemorative Gold $5 Coin.

In 2022, 90 years after she intended for it to do so, Laura Gardin Fraser’s design will fittingly take its place on the quarter. It will be the obverse for the American Women Quarters Program, a four-year program that celebrates American women and the contributions they made to this country. The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-330) requires a new obverse design that maintains a likeness of George Washington, but be designed so as to distinguish it from the one used during the previous quarters program.


A render of the American Women Quarters Program obverse.
The CFA and Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) strongly supported using a design by a prominent American female sculptor for a program featuring prominent American women. This decision was approved by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in June 2021.

“She’s able to create a sense of his seriousness of purpose. The cheek muscles, you see the strength, the strength of character. The looking ahead, straight ahead, the sense of vision. All of these come together with a sense of statesmanship and a commanding presence that she is able to achieve with remarkable ease.” – Dr. Dean Kotlowski, CCAC member

 

@Kashmir Pulaski and @BearlyHereBear
Thank you!
Awesome, love the extra wonderful details about these women!
I personally think this Washington is more eye appealing than the classic, there's some power in his likeness the previous image lacks.

 

Yeah I just found out about this Anna May Wong quarter today, heard about it on the radio, pretty cool!

https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/american-women-quarters/anna-may-wong

 

It's indeed lovely. Only Asian lady to grace a US coin, if I'm not mistaken......

 

Honestly I’d love to see Marilyn Monroe Bridgette Bardot Lana Turner and Jayne Mansfield on them myself. Have their male counterparts too Sean Connery Rock Hudson John Wayne and Cary Grant. That would be some good looking coinage