The US Mint has started shipping quarters featuring the likes of several trailblazing women as a part of the American Women Quarters Program, and poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou will be the first black woman to ever grace the coin.
The Angelou coin is one of five new quarter designs that will run this year through 2025, while George Washington's likeness will remain on the other side, the US Mint recently announced.
Bosses there confirmed they have already begun shipping the Maya Angelou coins, meaning Americans should start to see them appearing in their change soon.
The other women to be featured in the collection include Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Nation's first female principal chief, Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American Hollywood film star, and suffrage movement leader Adelina Otero-Warren.
'It is my honor to present our Nation's first circulating coins dedicated to celebrating American women and their contributions to American history,' Mint Deputy Director Ventris C. Gibson said in a news release.
'Each 2022 quarter is designed to reflect the breadth and depth of accomplishments being celebrated throughout this historic coin program.'
The coins will feature five famous women, including Angelou, top right, astronaut Sally Ride, top center, Native American Chieftan Wilma Mankiller, Suffragette Nina Otero-Warren, and movie star Anna May Wong
Pictured: the Maya Angelou quarter that the US Mint just started shipping for the American Women Quarters Program, left, and portrait of author Maya Angelou, right
'Maya Angelou, featured on the reverse of this first coin in the series, used words to inspire and uplift.'
The program was initially conceived
