By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes …..
Formally launched on March 22, 2022, the 2022-P Sally Experience American Ladies Quarter was the second coin launched within the 20-coin sequence. Congress approved the American Ladies Quarters Program with Public Law 116-330 (PDF link) in early 2021, with every of the 4 years from 2022 by 2025 that includes 5 completely different reverse designs celebrating the legacies and accomplishments of traditionally important ladies. Within the context of the quarter-dollar denomination itself, the sequence is modeled on the profitable 50 State Quarters and America the Stunning Nationwide Park Quarters applications and instantly follows the Washington Crossing the Delaware one-year reverse kind of 2021.
The United States Mint introduced the primary two ladies to be honored in this system–writer Maya Angelou and astronaut Dr. Sally Experience–on April 14, 2021. The remaining three–Wilma Mankiller, Nina Otero-Warren, and Anna Might Wong–have been introduced in October.
The Mint started transport the circulating commemorative quarters to banks on March 21, 2022. Luggage and rolls of the 2022-P Sally Experience American Ladies Quarter have been made accessible for buy beginning on the official day of launch. Additionally it is included within the 2022 United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set, which went on sale July 12, 2022, for an preliminary retail worth of $25.25.
Who Was Sally Experience and Why Is She on the Quarter?
Dr. Experience was the primary American girl to orbit the Earth. Her June 18, 1983, mission on board Area Shuttle Challenger got here one yr after Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya grew to become the primary girl to fly to an area station, and 20 years after Valentina Tershkova accomplished 48 orbits across the earth on board Vostok 6, changing into the primary girl in area.
A lifelong scientist and educator, Experience devoted a substantial quantity of her post-NASA profession to selling ladies within the STEM (Science-Know-how-Engineering-Math) industries alongside her life accomplice Tam O’Shaughnessy.
By the way, the 2022-P Sally Experience Quarter entered circulation the yr after the discharge of a silver greenback commemorative coin honoring educator-astronaut Christa McAuliffe, who was one among seven astronauts whose lives have been misplaced because of January 26, 1986 Challenger catastrophe.
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Market Information and Noteworthy Specimens
With the sequence solely a yr away from completion, collectors have proven shocking enthusiasm for the American Ladies Quarters, contemplating that that is the third go-round for a multi-year, multi-reverse quarter program in 25 years. The Mint’s honoree choice course of (maybe taking a be aware from the Ladies on 20s motion) was open to the general public on-line, and as such the ladies featured on the cash have been an attention-grabbing mixture of historic figures–a lot of them alive in our lifetimes and recorded on video that we will view at this time. The designs have been virtually uniformly sturdy and some have been groundbreaking.
As of December 2024, NGC studies 2,018 grading occasions for the 2022-P Sally Experience Quarter, most of that are licensed MS66 (1,093) and MS67 (661). There is just one high pop MS69 specimen listed and 230 cash graded MS68.
For his or her half, PCGS studies 1,049 whole grading occasions, with one within the high pop grade of MS68. Like NGC, a lot of the PCGS-certified items are graded MS66 (488), however MS65 (326) and MS67 (245) aren’t far behind.
Comparatively new to the full-service grading trade, CAC Grading has but to grade any.
Uncooked cash on eBay have bought in the previous couple of months for between $1 and $2.50. Error cash just like the “Ghost Comet” selection can promote for a bit of extra. Or much more; with regards to uncertified mint errors, eBay would possibly as properly be the “Wild West”.
Prime Inhabitants: PCGS MS68 (1, 12/2024), NGC MS69 (7, 12/2024), and CAC N/A (none graded, 12/2024).
- NGC MS68: eBay, September 25, 2024, Lot 315758648385 – $30. Two bids. Early Releases on insert. American Leaders – George Washington label (#565, bulk submissions).
- NGC BRILLIANT UNCIRCULATED #6560436-011: eBay, November 30, 2024, Lot 186803865244 – $6.50. Two bids. First Day of Problem on insert. American Ladies – 2022 label (#1828, retired).
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Coin Design
Obverse:
The widespread obverse of all American Ladies Quarters depicts the right-facing portrait of George Washington initially sculpted by artist Laura Gardin Fraser to mark Washington’s two hundredth birthday. Although her work was a beneficial design for the 1932 quarter, then-Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon finally chosen the acquainted design by John Flanagan.
The phrase LIBERTY wraps clockwise across the rim above Washington’s head. The motto IN GOD / WE / TRUST is split into three strains to his left, and the date 2022 and P mintmark are beneath his chin in descending order. Laura Gardin Fraser’s initials LGF are within the truncation of Washington’s neck on the left.
Reverse:
The reverse depicts Sally Experience in her NASA flight swimsuit standing in entrance of a port window with a view of Earth’s Western Hemisphere. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA wraps clockwise across the high half of the design and the denomination QUARTER DOLLAR and DR. SALLY RIDE run counterclockwise alongside the underside. Every inscription is split from the others by a comparatively giant dot, for a complete of three. The motto E PLURIBUS UNUM is within the area to the correct of Dr. Experience, inscribed in three centered strains.
Creative Infusion Program (AIP) Artist Elana Hagler created the design and Mint Medallic Artist Phebe Hemphill sculpted it. The initials EH are positioned between the “Q” in QUARTER and Dr. Experience’s proper shoulder (viewer’s left). Hemphill’s italicized initials PH are on the bottom-right of the coin, off the coast of Peru, touching each the “S” in SALLY and Dr. Experience’s left arm.
Edge:
The sting of the 2022-P Sally Experience Quarter is reeded with 119 reeds.
Designers
Laura Gardin Fraser was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1889. After receiving an schooling on the Columbia College and later on the Artwork College students League of New York, the place she studied beneath her future husband James Earle Fraser. Laura Gardin Fraser died in 1966. In 2022, the portrait of George Washington that she submitted for the Washington Quarter changed John Flanagan’s long-running portrait (submitted in the identical competitors) at some point of the American Ladies Quarters Program.
A brand new participant within the Mint’s Creative Infusion Program, Elana Hagler teaches artwork at Alabama State College.
Medallic Artist Phebe Hemphill joined the Mint in 2006, and since that point has turn into one of many nation’s most prolific coin designers (View Designer’s Profile).
2022-P Sally Experience American Ladies Quarter Coin Specs
| Nation: | United States of America |
| Yr of Problem: | 2022 |
| Denomination: | Quarter Greenback (25 Cents USD) |
| Mintmark: | P (Philadelphia) |
| Mintage: | 275,200,000 |
| Alloy: | .750 copper, .250 nickel outer layers bonded to pure copper inside core |
| Weight: | 5.67 g |
| Diameter: | 24.26 mm |
| Edge: | Reeded |
| OBV Designer: | Laura Gardin Fraser |
| REV Designer: | Elena Hagler (design) | Phebe Hemphill (sculpt) |
| High quality: | Enterprise Strike |
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