Ida B. Wells
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Issued Date: February 4, 2025
Description: Released in February 2025 as the 16th coin in the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program, the Ida B. Wells quarter honors the pioneering investigative journalist, suffragist, and NAACP co-founder. The reverse design features Wells with a quill pen, symbolizing her, "writing for justice" against injustice and violence.
Key Features of the 2025 Ida B. Wells Quarter:
Design (Reverse/Tails): The design, created in collaboration with her descendants, depicts Wells in a focused pose, emphasizing her role as a writer and activist, with a quill brooch on her lapel.
Inscriptions: The coin includes her name, "United States of America," "E Pluribus Unum," and "Quarter Dollar".
Significance: The coin celebrates her work in exposing the realities of lynching and fighting for civil rights and women's suffrage.
Obverse (Heads): Features a portrait of George Washington, originally designed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser.
Description: Released in February 2025 as the 16th coin in the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program, the Ida B. Wells quarter honors the pioneering investigative journalist, suffragist, and NAACP co-founder. The reverse design features Wells with a quill pen, symbolizing her, "writing for justice" against injustice and violence.
Key Features of the 2025 Ida B. Wells Quarter:
Design (Reverse/Tails): The design, created in collaboration with her descendants, depicts Wells in a focused pose, emphasizing her role as a writer and activist, with a quill brooch on her lapel.
Inscriptions: The coin includes her name, "United States of America," "E Pluribus Unum," and "Quarter Dollar".
Significance: The coin celebrates her work in exposing the realities of lynching and fighting for civil rights and women's suffrage.
Obverse (Heads): Features a portrait of George Washington, originally designed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser.