American women quarters 2023 silver proof set

Get The First Five Coins In The American Women Quarters Series

For centuries, the contributions of women have been relegated to mere footnotes in world history. That has changed over the last several decades, however, and today textbooks that once paid little attention to their accomplishments now include full discussions of major topics and viewpoints in women’s history. Women are also getting their due in 2022 thanks to the United States Mint as it begins its American Women Quarters Series, a four-year program that will release five new quarter designs each year from 2022 to 2025 celebrating some of the most important and influential women in American history. Here’s your chance to not only acquire all five fist-year, one-year-only quarters for 2022, but you can secure them in gorgeous Proof condition. It’s the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Silver Proof Set™ and this beautiful set will come beautifully displayed in a protective lens and accompanied by a Mint-issued Certificate of Authenticity.

A Diverse Group Of Prominent American Women

These quarters honor a broad and diverse group of prominent American women who made significant contributions in a variety of fields, including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts. The women honored are from ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse backgrounds. The five women honored in 2022 include:

  • MAYA ANGELOU. Writer, poet, performer, social activist, and teacher, Angelou (1928–2014) rose to international prominence as an author after the publication of her groundbreaking autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
  • SALLY RIDE. Sally Kristen Ride (1951–2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. She joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space when she flew a mission on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983.
  • WILMA MANKILLER. Wilma Pearl Mankiller (1945–2010) was an American Cherokee activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
  • NINA OTERO-WARREN. María Adelina Isabel Emilia "Nina" Otero-Warren (1881–1965) was a woman's suffragist, educator, and politician. She was first Hispanic woman to run for U.S. Congress and the first female superintendent of public schools in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • ANNA MAY WONG. Wong Liu-tsong (1905–1961), known professionally as Anna May Wong, was an American actress and was Hollywood’s first Chinese-American movie star, and the first Chinese-American actress to gain international recognition.

Laura Gardin Fraser’s Beloved Washington Design

In addition to the one-year-only designs, this series features a new obverse design by American sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser features a portrait of George Washington facing right, surrounded by the inscriptions “LIBERTY,” “IN GOD WE TRUST,” AND “2022.” Fraser originally created this design in 1931 as her entry in the competition for the 1932 Washington Quarter that was struck to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Washington’s birth. Her design was recommended by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, but John Flannigan’s left facing Washington design was ultimately selected. Fraser’s obverse design was later used in 1999 on the George Washington Commemorative Gold $5 Coin.

COIN HIGHLIGHTS:

  • THE FIRST FIVE COINS OF AMERICAN WOMEN QUARTERS SERIES – The American Women Quarters Program is a four-year program featuring some of the most important and influential women in American history. These are the first five quarters in the series and honor the accomplishments of Maya Angelou, Dr. Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, Nina Otero-Warren, and Anna May Wong.
  • NEW OBVERSE DESIGN – Acting as the unifying element of the program, this series will feature a new obverse design by American sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser that shows her portrait of George Washington from 1931.
  • STRUCK IN HIGHLY PURE SILVER – Each coin was struck in 6.19 grams of highly pure 99.9% fine silver and measures 24.26 mm in diameter.
  • UNITED STATES LEGAL TENDER – These one-year-only coins were struck at the San Francisco Mint and are 25 cents legal tender in the United States.
  • GORGEOUS PROOF CONDITION – Each coin in your 2022-S American Women Quarters Silver Proof Set comes in gorgeous Proof condition with frosted details rising over mirror-like fields.

Don’t miss your chance to acquire the 2022-S American Women Quarters Silver Proof Set™ featuring the first five quarters in the U.S. Mint’s new four-year series. Click it to your cart today!

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  • Published: Mar 11, 2022, 8 AM

American women quarters 2023 silver proof set

2022-S American Women quarter dollars are being offered in a five-coin copper-nickel clad Proof set and a five-coin silver Proof set.

Original images courtesy of the United States Mint.

American women quarters 2023 silver proof set

The U.S. Mint’s inventory of five-coin 2022-S American Women clad Proof quarter dollar sets were nearly sold out as of March 8 through the bureau’s enrollment program.

Original images courtesy of the United States Mint.

American women quarters 2023 silver proof set

The five-coin silver Proof American Women Quarters sets are scheduled for release March 29.

Images courtesy of the United States Mint.

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Enrollments by U.S. Mint customers through March 7 for the five-coin copper-nickel clad Proof American Women quarter dollars set were nearly sufficient to deplete the Mint’s total inventory planned for the numismatic product.

Enrollment demand is also strong for the five-coin silver Proof America Women Quarters set.

The quarter dollar sets of Proof copper-nickel clad coins went on sale from the Mint on March 8. The Silver Proof quarter dollar sets are scheduled for release March 29.

The copper-nickel clad sets are offered at $21 per set, and the silver sets are priced at $73 per set.

The five coins in the Proof clad set are struck on planchets composed of outer layers of 75% copper and 25% nickel bonded to a core of pure copper. The Proof silver quarter dollars are composed of .999 fine silver.

The Mint planned to produce and release no more than 42,900 of the copper-nickel clad quarter dollar set and 58,212 of the silver quarter dollar set.

As of the morning of March 7, the remaining number of clad sets available was 1,652, and of the silver sets, 21,607.

The coins in the two sets bear identical sets of designs, featuring on their reverses the first five of the 20 remarkable American women to be eventually featured in the American Women quarter dollars program. Five different quarter dollars are to be issued annually in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

The 2022 coin reverses recognize American writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, American astronaut Dr. Sally Ride, Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller, woman’s suffragist María Adelina Isabel Emilia “Nina” Otero-Warren and Chinese American actress Anna May Wong.

The common obverse for the series carries the portrait of a right-facing George Washington originally submitted by sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser in a 1931 design competition for the Washington quarter dollar introduced in 1932.

Mint officials are encouraging collectors to use the enrollment option, allowing collectors to place orders for certain annual numismatic products in advance of the Mint’s scheduled release date, and allowing the Mint to plan production levels.

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Community Comments

Who will be on the 2023 quarters?

The 2023 coins recognize the achievements of Bessie Coleman, Jovita Idar, Edith Kanakaʻole, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Maria Tallchief. “I am pleased to announce the designs of the 2023 American Women Quarters,” said Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson.

Are quarter proof sets worth anything?

Clad Proof State Quarters were released as part of annual proof sets from 1999-2008. They were also in special five-coin proof sets containing the quarters released during each year of the series. Clad Proof State Quarters are 91.67% copper and 8.33% nickel, and have a real-world value of about $1.75 each.

How much is a 2022 proof quarter worth?

The five-coin 2022-S . 999 fine silver quarters Proof set is offered at $73, compared to $60 for the five-coin 2020-S silver quarters Proof set.

What is a silver proof quarter?

Proof State Quarters Minted in 90% Pure Silver.