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!