American Women Quarters (2022 - 2025)

The American Women quarters come from the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, Public Law 116-330, approved on January 13, 2021. It allowed up to five new reverses a year from 2022 through 2025, each honoring one woman. The law listed fields such as suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, the humanities, science, space and the arts, and asked for honorees from diverse ethnic, racial and geographic backgrounds. The Treasury chose them after taking public suggestions and consulting the Smithsonian's American Women's History Initiative, the National Women's History Museum and the Bipartisan Women's Caucus. Each year's five coins came out one at a time. The first, Maya Angelou, was released on January 3, 2022 and Anna May Wong closed that year on October 25; the last of all 20, Althea Gibson, began shipping on October 20, 2025.

The same law banned portrait busts on the reverse, so the designs show each honoree in a scene rather than as a bust. It also required an obverse that could be told apart from the one used on the previous quarters. The Commission of Fine Arts and the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee recommended Laura Gardin Fraser's Washington, which she modeled in 1931 after Houdon's bust. The commission had favored it for the first Washington quarter in 1932, but the Treasury picked John Flanagan's. Fraser's portrait had been used once, on a 1999 $5 gold commemorative.

The program followed the America the Beautiful quarters and the 2021 Crossing the Delaware quarter. The 2026 Semiquincentennial coins came next.

• Obverse. Washington faces right, unlike every Flanagan quarter before 2022.
• Reverse. The honoree's name, with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, E PLURIBUS UNUM and QUARTER DOLLAR. The Edith Kanakaʻole quarter is the exception, showing the value as 25¢.
• P and D coins were made for circulation. Each mint struck between 55.8 million and 372.8 million of each design.
• S marks San Francisco coins: uncirculated coins sold only in rolls, bags and three-roll sets, never released into circulation, plus clad proofs and 99.9% silver proofs.

2022

Maya Angelou raises her arms before a bird in flight and a rising sun (Emily Damstra, design). Dr. Sally Ride looks out a Space Shuttle window at Earth (Elana Hagler). Wilma Mankiller stands in a shawl beside the seven-pointed star of the Cherokee Nation (Benjamin Sowards). Nina Otero-Warren appears with yucca flowers and VOTO PARA LA MUJER (Chris Costello). Anna May Wong is framed by marquee lights (Emily Damstra).

2023

Bessie Coleman wears a flying helmet as a biplane passes, with 6.15.1921, the date of her pilot's license (Chris Costello). Edith Kanakaʻole's hair and lei blend into a Hawaiian landscape (Emily Damstra). Eleanor Roosevelt stands by the scales of justice before a globe (Don Everhart). Jovita Idar's figure is made of words from her work and newspapers (John P. McGraw). Maria Tallchief dances in a spotlight, with her Osage name in Osage script (Benjamin Sowards).

2024

Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray looks out through the word HOPE (Emily Damstra). Patsy Takemoto Mink stands before the Capitol holding Title IX (Beth Zaiken). Dr. Mary Edwards Walker wears her Medal of Honor, and Celia Cruz sings into a microphone beside ¡AZÚCAR! (both by Phebe Hemphill). Zitkala-Ša holds a book beneath a stylized sun and a cardinal (Don Everhart).

2025

Ida B. Wells appears above the words journalist, suffragist and civil rights activist (Elana Hagler). Juliette Gordon Low stands beside the Girl Scout trefoil she designed (Thomas Hipschen). Dr. Vera Rubin's profile is set against dark matter (Christina Hess). Stacey Park Milbern sits in her wheelchair above DISABILITY JUSTICE (Elana Hagler). Althea Gibson holds a racket and ball under TRAILBLAZING CHAMPION (Don Everhart).

The new obverse brought hub doubling with it. The Wexler files list a master die doubling, WMDO-001, on the last T of TRUST and the first 2 of the date, which they say shows on most Angelou and Ride quarters and less often on Mankiller and Wong. The 2022-P Anna May Wong WDDO-001 is a separate doubled die, with extra thickness on the 22 and the P. Other errors and varieties recorded for the series are listed below.

• Circulation, uncirculated and clad proof: copper-nickel clad, 91.67% copper and 8.33% nickel overall; 5.67 g; 24.26 mm; 119 reeds.
• Silver proofs: 99.9% silver; 6.34 g.