Said LCS CEO and owner Tom Coulson, “Whenever the public has had the opportunity to provide ideas for coin designs, the response has been enthusiastic. This preliminary list will then be published in the Federal Register to allow for public input, then the final list of 20 names to be honored on the coins will be announced within the next few months by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act Of 2020, signed into law January 13, 2021, designated that the Smithsonian Institution American Women’s History Initiative, National Women’s History Museum, and the Bipartisan Women’s Caucus (which includes all female members of the current US Congress) jointly create the preliminary list of women who might appear on these quarters. US Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin’s office received the accompanying list on April 9. Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Michigan has forwarded the names of 52 prominent American women received in the company’s March public survey to help select which 20 might be individually depicted on the US Mint’s quarters placed into circulation starting in 2022 through 2025. Which woman has a crater on the moon named in her honor? Who was the first to receive an electoral vote in the US presidential elections? Who was the first female to hold elected federal office? Which orphan became the first self-made female millionaire in America and was considered to be the wealthiest African-American female at the time of her death? Who was the first Native American female to write an autobiography who is also one of only nine women honored with a statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection at the US Capitol in Washington?

Who was the first woman to earn a medical degree in America, after being rejected by twenty-nine medical schools because of her sex, yet graduated first in her class at the one that accepted her? Which American female-authored the world’s second highest-selling book in the entire Nineteenth Century, topped only by the Bible?

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