2024 Colorized Dr. Mary Edwards Walker U.S. Women Quarter

$4.25

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Get the third 2024 U.S. Women Quarter and 13th in the series vividly colorized by Littleton's artists to pay tribute to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker!


  • Struck for a limited time, the quarter honors the first – and to date, the only – woman to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor for her medical work during the Civil War
  • Raised by abolitionist parents on family farm in upstate New York
  • Only second woman to receive a medical degree in America; the year was 1855 and she was 22
  • Mary volunteered her medical services to the Union Army during the Civil War
  • Awarded the Medal of Honor in 1865
  • Favored the dress-and-trouser combination known as bloomers, switching to men's clothing after the war – a move that drew public criticism
  • Reverse shows Dr. Walker holding her pocket surgical kit, with the Medal of Honor on her uniform, and surgeon's pin at her collar
  • Designed and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill, U. S. Mint Medallic Artist
  • Vibrantly enhanced in full color by Littleton

Add this commemorative quarter about the trailblazing Dr. Mary Edwards Walker to your collection or give as a present to a young collector today!