U.S. Mint announces 5 women on new quarters for 2025

[Mackaydon]

U.S. Mint announces 5 women on new quarters for 2025. Here's who will be on the coins.

It's the last year the American Women Quarters Program will put historical female figures on reverse side of coins.

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[robertk]

I liked it better when I knew what a quarter was supposed to look like. They used to honor people by making postage stamps, not redesigning the coins all the time.

 

[pepperj]

I liked it better when I knew what a quarter was supposed to look like. They used to honor people by making postage stamps, not redesigning the coins all the time.

We see an influx of foreign coinage that looks similar. Gas stations/convenience stores are synonymous in passing them off in change to the customer.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Enough is enough, U.S. Mint. How many different quarters do we need? Give it a rest. I'm just waiting for the day the U.S. Mint decides it's okay to mint coins of people still living, like many other countries do all the time. That will be the day you know they've hit rock bottom.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’ve never heard of any of these ladies. Does that mean I’m ignorant? 🤷🏼 American coinage was at its peak in 1916. The harbinger of the mints downfall was putting Lincoln on the cent in ‘09. It didn’t take long and we had Washington in ‘32. Even though he refused to be glorified like that. Then Jefferson in ‘38. Roosevelt in ‘46. Kennedy in ‘64. Our coinage started out with lady liberty. There’s was no way they would glorify a dead politician back then. Now we have the dead president series. We need another Teddy Roosevelt to come and revamp our coinage like he did before. This is from when coins were cool!

 

[Jeff H]

If they came out with 5 new men instead of 5 new women, would anyone even care? If I had my druthers, every coin would be a Draped Bust or Liberty Cap. Hard to beat those classic designs.

 

[galenrog]

The last beautiful coin produced for circulation was the Walking Liberty Half Dollar. All subsequent issues of business strikes have been rather….poor in design.

 

[unclemac]

THIS was the pinnacle of US design! She is no-one specific, just an allegory for FREEDOM.. wild flowing hair and the reverse, just symbolism, (that we still use today) for who we are. And it should be 10, 25, 50 and $1, $2, $5 same design. Scrap the penny, and my preference is the buffalo nickle! Get rid of dollar bills too, and $2, AND the $5. Japan does just fine with an equivalent $5.

 

[unclemac]

...AND I want them in SILVER!

 

[unclemac]

Enough is enough, U.S. Mint. How many different quarters do we need? Give it a rest. I'm just waiting for the day the U.S. Mint decides it's okay to mint coins of people still living, like many other countries do all the time. That will be the day you know they've hit rock bottom.

it is called "Seigniorage".... from Wikipedia...

The 50 State Quarters series of quarters (25-cent coins) began in 1999. The U.S. government thought that many people, collecting each new quarter as it rolled out of the United States Mint, would remove the coins from circulation. Each complete set of quarters (the 50 states, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia) is worth $14.00. Since it costs the mint about five cents to produce one quarter, the government made a profit when someone collected a coin. The Treasury Department estimates that it earned about $6.3 billion in seigniorage from the quarters during the program

Some countries' national mints report the amount of seigniorage provided to their governments; the Royal Canadian Mint reported that in 2006 it generated $93 million in seigniorage for the government of Canada. The U.S. government, the largest beneficiary of seigniorage, earned about $25 billion in 2000.For coins only, the U.S. Treasury received 45 cents per dollar issued in seigniorage for the 2011 fiscal year.

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[unclemac]

THIS was the pinnacle of US design! She is no-one specific, just an allegory for FREEDOM.. wild flowing hair and the reverse, just symbolism, (that we still use today) for who we are. And it should be 10, 25, 50 and $1, $2, $5 same design. Scrap the penny, and my preference is the buffalo nickle! Get rid of dollar bills too, and $2, AND the $5. Japan does just fine with an equivalent $5.
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AND if you want to be inclusive, keep her a woman but change her race for different denominations!

 

[jewelerguy]

it is called "Seigniorage".... from Wikipedia...

The 50 State Quarters series of quarters (25-cent coins) began in 1999. The U.S. government thought that many people, collecting each new quarter as it rolled out of the United States Mint, would remove the coins from circulation. Each complete set of quarters (the 50 states, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia) is worth $14.00. Since it costs the mint about five cents to produce one quarter, the government made a profit when someone collected a coin. The Treasury Department estimates that it earned about $6.3 billion in seigniorage from the quarters during the program

That is the exact reason they are made