Wrapping up a four-year series of proof sets featuring coins honoring women’s contributions to U.S. history, the United States Mint releases its 2025 American Women Quarters Proof Set today at noon ET.
The clad set includes five San Francisco Mint-struck quarters, marking the final issues in the Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program. Each coin is in proof finish, featuring frosted design elements and mirror-like backgrounds – achieved through multiple strikes on polished planchets using specially prepared dies.
The set’s 2025 quarters honor:
- Ida B. Wells – Investigative journalist, suffragist, and civil rights activist
- Juliette Gordon Low – Founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America
- Dr. Vera Rubin – Astronomer known for pioneering research on galaxy rotation
- Stacey Park Milbern – Disability rights activist
- Althea Gibson – Groundbreaking multi-sport athlete and the first Black player to break tennis’s color barrier
The individuals celebrated appear on the reverse (tails side) of their respective quarters, accompanied by inscriptions reading "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "E PLURIBUS UNUM," and "QUARTER DOLLAR," along with additional inscriptions specific to each honoree.
The obverse (heads side) of each quarter shares Laura Gardin Fraser’s portrait of George Washington, originally designed in 1932 to commemorate his 200th birthday. Inscriptions include "LIBERTY," "IN GOD WE TRUST," and "2025."
The American Women Quarters Program launched in 2022, with five releases issued each year as part of the series.
Price, Ordering and Limits
The 2025 American Women Quarters Proof Set is priced at $26.50. It is available directly from the U.S. Mint through its online store for quarter products.
All five coins are packaged in a single protective lens. The set has a product limit of 60,060, with a household order limit of five for the first 24 hours.
American Women Quarters are also included in other upcoming U.S. Mint products, such as rolls and bags of each quarter, other annual numismatic sets – including uncirculated sets, standard and silver proof sets – and holiday ornaments.
the bigger question, in a few weeks the 2025 proof sets get released. according to the mint website
Mintage Limit: 420,002
Product Limit: 420,002
Just who the heck are those extra 2 sets for??????
I mean c’mon, who decided on that figure as the limit?
lol
I know, it’s a weird number for sure. All I can think of is that’s the number that was counted after being packaged.
I think the bigger question is: how can the Mintage Limit = Product Limit? when the 2025 silver proof set will also have the clad cent, nickel, and dollar.
Another question is whether sales of this set will take after either of the other two proof sets with noteworthy Lincoln cents, being 2009 and 2019. 2009 had sales of 437K after one week and went on to have a mintage of 1.48 million. It took 2019 close to 6 months to reach sales of 397K, and it ended with a mintage of 600K. Resales for 2009 have not been so good, whereas 2019 has increased quite a bit (when including the W cent). Both 2009 and 2019 had no product limit, whereas 2025 does (PL=420,002). When you factor in… Read more »
I assume this is a subscription item. If the limits are firm, it might be sold out before release day.
“I can foresee dealers buying large quantities, taking that chance.”
Major D, it’s true the dealers will buy as many as they can if they sense a resale winner. However, aren’t they effectively immune from any risk factor by being able to return as many of these Proof Sets as they want to, not to mention without being subject to any specific time limit to do so?
Maybe the SPS will in fact be ALL SILVER this year. Wouldn’t THAT be special.
Thumbs WAY up for that!
I’m all in for that!
Major D, this is what I’ve often referred to as the US Mints, “Fun With Numbers” game. They do not appear to know what is a mintage limit, versus product limit, and how one could or should be able to possibly or possibly not calculate or make “cents” from the numbers, based on variables or given data? I believe there are three different/separate product categories. They are clad uncirculated, clad proof, and silver proof. Then one would have to consider which products contain which coins, that actually have a declared product limit in order to be able to extrapolate an… Read more »
FWIW this set has a limit of 60,060
so clearly these extra amounts must mean something, it’s too small to be extras to deal with bad sets, it could be set aside to be given away in presentations or perhaps to museums (i’m fairly sure the smithsonian gets at least one of everything the mint makes)
c_q, interesting-I hadn’t thought of giveaways