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I Just Noticed a Woman’s Face on My Quarter!
Is this so we’ll forget they never delivered our Harriet Tubman $20 bill?
I was pushing my handful of quarters one by one into the washing machine in the basement of our apartment building when something caught my eye. There was a woman’s face on one of the quarters!
I turned it over to see if this was some kind of counterfeit coin. But there on the back was a face I recognized as George Washington, even though he’s gotten a lot more thick-necked and macho looking since my youth. (What’s up with that?) Not only that, but the imprint on this particular coin said it was minted in 2023. Does this mean women have been on U.S. quarters for more than a year and I didn’t notice?!?
Of course not.
At least, not very many. I had $5.00 worth of quarters in my hand for both the wash and dry. That’s 20 quarters. And only one of them had the face of a woman on the back.
Seeing a woman’s face on this quarter reminded me of how annoyed I am that we never got the Harriet Tubman $20 bill we were promised nine years ago.