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

San Francisco Mint

$8.95

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Get the prestigious San Francisco "S" mint mark Proof issue of the 2024 U.S. Women Quarters Series that honors Dr. Mary Edwards Walk, the first – and to date, the only – woman recipient of the U.S. Medal of Honor!


  • Third issue of 2024 and 13th in series
  • 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
  • Obverse depicts George Washington as originally designed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser to commemorate his 200th birthday for a 1932 quarter

Add this mint Uncirculated 2024-S Dr. Mary Edwards Walker quarter to your collection now!