Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink Quarter: Value, Mintage and Errors
The 2024 Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink quarter is worth 25 cents in circulated condition. 397,400,000 were struck, 210,200,000 at Philadelphia and 187,200,000 at Denver. Released on 25 March 2024, it was the second coin of 2024 and the twelfth in the program. Mink is shown holding a document marked "TITLE IX," the 1972 law that Congress renamed in her honor after her death.
What this coin looks like
The reverse depicts Patsy Takemoto Mink holding her landmark "TITLE IX" legislation. Behind her is the U.S. Capitol, with the south wing shown prominently; the Mint notes that the south wing is home to the U.S. House of Representatives, where Mink served. The Mint says the lei she wears represents her home state of Hawaii. The words "EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION" are inscribed on the design alongside her name.
Artistic Infusion Program designer Beth Zaiken created the design, and U.S. Mint Medallic Artist John P. McGraw sculpted it. "Patsy Takemoto Mink was an amazing Congresswoman and a true pioneer who worked tirelessly to champion women's rights," McGraw said in the Mint's release. The Mint began shipping the coin, the second of the 2024 American Women Quarters, on 25 March 2024.
The reverse inscriptions read:
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- PATSY TAKEMOTO MINK
- E PLURIBUS UNUM
- 25 CENTS
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION
The obverse is the same on all 20 coins in the series: George Washington facing right, with LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST, the date and the mint mark. The mint mark is to the right of Washington's neck, below the date. P is Philadelphia, D is Denver, S is San Francisco and appears only on proof and collector issues.
Is my Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink quarter an error?
No error or variety unique to this coin is documented in the grading-service and variety sources this site checks. That is the normal situation: only five of the 20 designs (Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, Edith Kanakaʻole, Bessie Coleman and Mary Edwards Walker) have a documented error or variety.
What people most often bring to this coin are the three claims that attach to every coin in the series: a faint G in IN GOD WE TRUST (not an error, it is the typeface), flat shiny doubling on the lettering (machine doubling, not a doubled die), and small raised lumps from die chips. The errors page has nine tests that separate a genuine mint error from damage, and the short list of errors that are actually documented in this program.
What is it worth?
| Found in change | 25 cents |
|---|---|
| Uncirculated, from a Mint roll or bag | $1 to $2 |
| Certified mint state | A few dollars, rising to roughly $86 at the top of the population for the series |
| Clad proof (S mint) | Typically less than the cost of grading it |
| Silver proof (S mint, .999 fine) | A floor set by the silver price, plus a small premium |
Values as of October 2026. The full reasoning, including the four cases where a coin in this series is genuinely worth more, is on the value page.
How many were made
| Philadelphia (P) | 210,200,000 |
|---|---|
| Denver (D) | 187,200,000 |
| Total | 397,400,000 |
| Rank in the series | 12 of 20 by mintage, lowest first |
| San Francisco (S) | Not published by the Mint |
San Francisco (S) figures are not shown because the Mint has never published per-design mintages for S-mint American Women Quarters. Any S figure published elsewhere is a secondary-source estimate, and the two most commonly cited sets contradict each other.
See the full mintage table for all 20 designs, or the key date page for where this coin sits in the series.
Collector versions
Besides the Philadelphia and Denver coins in circulation, the Mint sold three San Francisco versions of the 2024 Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink quarter directly to collectors. None were released into circulation.
| 2024-S uncirculated | Only in the 2024 three-roll set (40 P, 40 D, 40 S), $60.00 at issue |
|---|---|
| 2024-S clad proof | In the 2024 American Women Quarters Proof Set, $23.00 at issue, 51,916 sets sold |
| 2024-S silver proof | In the 2024 American Women Quarters Silver Proof Set, $80.00 at issue, 35,010 sets sold |
Set sales are as reported by CoinNews on 21 October 2026. Details on the proof and silver proof sets and the Mint rolls and bags.
Who was Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink?
Patsy Matsu Takemoto was born on 6 December 1927 in Paia, on the island of Maui, in what was then the Territory of Hawaii. She was Japanese American; her father, Suematsu Takemoto, was a civil engineer, and her mother, Mitama Tateyama, was a homemaker. In 1944 she graduated from Maui High School as valedictorian, having been elected the school's first female student body president.
After about two years at the University of Hawaii, she spent a semester at Wilson College in Pennsylvania and then transferred to the University of Nebraska, where she led a coalition that pushed the university to end its segregation policies. She returned to Hawaii and earned her bachelor's degree in 1948, then a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1951, the year she married John Francis Mink. In 1953 she became the first Japanese American woman licensed to practice law in Hawaii and opened her own firm.
Mink was elected to the territorial House of Representatives in 1956 and to the territorial Senate in 1958, where she was the first woman to serve. In 1959 she lost the Democratic primary for Hawaii's at-large U.S. House seat to Daniel Inouye, and in 1960 she spoke for the civil rights platform at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. After statehood she served in the Hawaii State Senate from 1962 to 1964. In 1964 she won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. She served from 3 January 1965 to 3 January 1977.
In Congress she served on the Education and Labor and the Interior and Insular Affairs committees and pressed for gender and racial equality, affordable childcare and bilingual education. In 1971 she sued the Environmental Protection Agency for withheld documents on the Amchitka Island nuclear test, a case that shaped later Freedom of Information Act practice. With Representative Edith Green and Senator Birch Bayh, she built support for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding. In 1972 she also entered Oregon's Democratic presidential primary as an antiwar candidate, the first Asian American woman to run for president.
After leaving the House, Mink served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1978, and later on the Honolulu City Council from 1983 to 1987. On 22 September 1990 she won a special election to fill the House seat left vacant by Daniel K. Akaka, and voters kept returning her to Congress for the rest of her life.
Mink died of pneumonia in Honolulu on 28 September 2002, after a month in the hospital. That year Congress renamed Title IX the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. She was reelected posthumously in November 2002, and on 24 November 2014 President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
She was selected as the first woman of color elected to Congress, a lawmaker who, in the Mint's words, fought for gender and racial equality, affordable childcare and bilingual education, most notably through Title IX.
The design
| Reverse designer | Beth Zaiken, U.S. Mint Artistic Infusion Program |
|---|---|
| Reverse sculptor | John P. McGraw, U.S. Mint medallic artist |
| Obverse | Laura Gardin Fraser, designed and sculpted, 1931 |
| Released | 25 March 2024 |
Specifications
| Composition, circulating | 91.67% copper, 8.33% nickel (pure copper core, copper-nickel outer layers) |
|---|---|
| Composition, silver proof | .999 fine silver |
| Weight | 5.670 g clad, 6.343 g silver proof |
| Diameter | 24.26 mm |
| Thickness | 1.75 mm |
| Edge | reeded, 119 reeds |
| Mints | Philadelphia (P) and Denver (D) for circulation; San Francisco (S) for proof and collector issues |
No American Women Quarter was struck in 90% silver. The Mint moved its silver proof sets to .999 fine silver with the 2019-dated issues, before this program began.
Frequently asked questions
- How much is the Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink quarter worth?
- Twenty-five cents in circulated condition. An uncirculated example from a Mint roll or bag trades for one to two dollars.
- How many Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink quarters were made?
- 397,400,000 in total: 210,200,000 at Philadelphia and 187,200,000 at Denver.
- When was the Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink quarter released?
- It entered circulation on 25 March 2024.
- Who designed the Hon. Patsy Takemoto Mink quarter?
- The reverse was designed by Beth Zaiken of the Mint's Artistic Infusion Program and sculpted by U.S. Mint medallic artist John P. McGraw. The obverse, shared by all 20 coins, is by Laura Gardin Fraser.
- What is on the back of the Patsy Takemoto Mink quarter?
- The reverse shows Mink holding her "TITLE IX" legislation, wearing a lei for her home state of Hawaii, with the south wing of the U.S. Capitol behind her and the inscription "EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION." Beth Zaiken designed it and John P. McGraw sculpted it.
- Why is Title IX on the Patsy Mink quarter?
- Mink co-authored Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination in federally funded education programs. After her death in 2002, Congress renamed it the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act.
Sources
- Mintage figures: U.S. Mint circulating coin production dataset.
- Designer and sculptor credits: U.S. Mint, cross-checked against the artists' initials on the coin.
- Coin photograph: United States Mint image.
- U.S. Mint: United States Mint Announces Designs for 2024 American Women Quarters Program Coins
- U.S. Mint: United States Mint Begins Shipping 2024 American Women Quarters Celebrating the Honorable Patsy Takemoto Mink on March 25
- U.S. Mint: 2024 American Women Quarters Program Honorees Announced
- History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives: MINK, Patsy Takemoto
- Wikipedia: Patsy Mink
Last verified: October 2026. Mintage figures are final.