From 2022 to 2025, the United States Mint will issue five designs every year, for a total of 20 designs. Each coin will feature a woman on the reverse who has made "contributions to the United States in a wide spectrum of accomplishments and fields,
including but not limited to suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and arts." The obverse shows George Washington in a new design. The majority of the women represented came from ethnic minorities.
The first Black woman featured on U.S. currency.
Maya Angelou:
The first LGBT person on U.S. currency.
Sally Ride:
1878 Shield Nickel
Wilma Mankiller:
The voice that first elevated Native American tribes and tribal issues in this country.
Adelina Otero-Warren:
The first Hispanic American on U.S. currency.
Anna May Wong:
The first Asian American on U.S. currency.
Bessie Coleman:
Design released at an event at the Federal Aviation Administration.
Jovita Idar:
Design released at an event at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Edith Kanakaʻole:
The first native Hawaiian on U.S. currency.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
She was the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband former president Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving first lady of the United States.