LAURA GARDIN FRASER EAGLE DESIGN

In 1932, there was a contest to pick a design for a George Washington commemorative quarter.

Despite the design by Laura Gardin Fraser winning the contest, twice, her work was never used.

However, in 1999, her design was finally used-but not on a circulating quarter, rather on a non circulating $5 gold coin.

Note how beautiful both sides of the coin look.

 

Now, in 2022, we are finally going to be using the Laura Gardin Fraser design of George Washington on a series of circulating quarters under the American Women quarters program, which will feature five women per year until 2025. Public Law 116-330.

 

Here is an example of the Fraser design and an example of the first quarter using Maya Angelou.

HOWEVER, even with this program of honoring women, the Fraser eagle reverse design is not being used.

Here is a beautiful mockup of what the design would look like.

 

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/coins/comments/korkxx/
mockup_laura_gardin_frasers_washington_quarter/

I suggest if the design was good enough to be used on a $5 gold coin, it should also be good enough to use on a circulating quarter.

I would like to ask all of the readers who agree with me to contact your member of Congress, and ask them propose legislation to amend Public Law 116-330 to add a sixth quarter using the Fraser eagle reverse, along with the five women quarters-for a total of six quarters per year.

In 2009, after ten years of the 50 state quarter designs, five per year, we issued the SIX territorial quarters in the same year. So six quarters can be made.

Since this program is honoring women Laura Gardin Fraser was a woman too and using both her Washington, and her eagle design would be a win-win for both women and for coin collectors.

The legislation was originally proposed by California representative Barbara Lee. If you live in California, she may be your representative.

I thank you in advance.

To read Public Law 116-330, see:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116hr1923enr/pdf/BILLS-116hr1923enr.pdf

For more information on the American Women quarters program, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Women_quarters
Here are the new 2022 quarters featuring trailblazing U.S. women (https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/here-are-the-new-2022-quarters-featuring-trailblazing-u-s-women/)

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