About American Women Quarters
This site documents the U.S. Mint's American Women Quarters Program: 20 reverse designs issued between 2022 and 2025, each honoring a different American woman, and 8,024,800,000 coins struck for circulation.
Why this site exists
The published record on these coins is unusually poor, and the errors are not small ones.
- The most widely cited competing mintage table gives one coin's figures as 850,640 and 832,240 instead of 185,800,000 and 184,800,000, wrong by a factor of about 218, and repeats a copy-pasted year total.
- Pages ranking for searches about errors in this series quote values in the hundreds and thousands of dollars for coins that, on the same page, they admit have never been certified to exist.
- No page anywhere stated which coin in the series has the lowest mintage, although the Mint publishes the data needed to answer it.
The aim here is narrow: be the site that is correct. Where the Mint has published a figure, this site uses it. Where the Mint has not published something, this site says so rather than repeating an estimate as fact.
Editorial standards
- Mintages come from the source. The U.S. Mint's machine-readable circulating coin production dataset, not a secondary table.
- Values come from realized sales. Not asking prices, and not price-guide valuations that disagree with what coins actually sell for. Where the two conflict, this site shows both and explains the gap.
- Unpublished means unpublished. The Mint has never published per-design San Francisco mintages for this program. This site leaves those cells empty and explains why, rather than printing one of the two contradictory secondary-source sets.
- Errors are named only when cataloged. A variety gets a page here when a recognized attributor has cataloged it. Nicknamed "errors" circulating with invented price tags are listed as what they are.
- Corrections are made in public. Pages carry a last-verified date, and when something is corrected the correction is stated rather than quietly edited.
Corrections already made
An earlier version of this site, built on WordPress and retired in 2026, published three factual errors that are worth naming because they are still repeated elsewhere:
| Previously published | Correct |
|---|---|
| Laura Gardin Fraser designed the reverse of every American Women Quarter | She designed and sculpted the obverse, the shared Washington portrait. The 20 reverses are by eight different Artistic Infusion Program artists. |
| Patsy Takemoto Mink was the first Black congresswoman | She was the first woman of color and first Asian American woman elected to Congress, in 1964. She was Japanese American. The first Black congresswoman was Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968. |
| Nina Otero-Warren was the first woman elected to the senate in New Mexico | She was never elected to any senate. She was the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools in 1917 and the first Hispanic woman nominated for a seat in the U.S. Congress, winning the 1922 Republican nomination for New Mexico's U.S. House seat and losing the general election. |
How this site is kept current
The program ended in October 2025, but the record on it has not stopped moving. New errors are still being found and reported, the second off-metal strike in the series was only announced in June 2026, and realized prices change. This site is checked on a regular cycle:
- Mintage figures are checked against the Mint's production dataset each quarter, and any revision is noted on the mintage page with the date.
- Values are re-checked against realized auction results each quarter, and the "values as of" date on each page moves when they are.
- Errors and varieties are added when a recognized attributor catalogs them or a grading service certifies them, not when they appear on social media.
Every page shows the date it was last verified.
Affiliation
This site is an independent informational resource. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the United States Mint or the United States government. Coin photographs are United States Mint images. "American Women Quarters" is a trademark of the United States Mint and is used here descriptively, to refer to the coins the site documents.
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Last verified: October 2026. Mintage figures are final.