Mint’s 225th anniversary, and the first to depict the “Remembering our Post, Embracing the Future” anniversary theme.
It’s the first coin released during the U.S. This coin is part of a series that will “depict an allegorical Liberty in a variety of contemporary forms-including designs representing Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Indian-Americans among others-to reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the United States.”. “ We boldly look to the future by casting Liberty in a new light, as an African-American woman wearing a crown of stars, looking forward to ever brighter chapters in our Nation’s history book,” says the Mint. Liberty is almost always portrayed as a woman, and almost always European. Mint has depicted Lady Liberty, an allegory of freedom, as a black woman. Why is the 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin so innovative?. The 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin will be released in April and probably sell for about $1,500. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit. Once he coins are issued, they can never be made again.The 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin marks the first time that Liberty will be portrayed as a black woman. The obverse design features a dramatic representation of the Statue of Liberty in profile with the inscriptions “IN GOD WE TRUST” and “$1.Įach of these coins were issued for a very limited amount of time - the quarter for just 10 weeks in 2001, and the dollar coins for approximately 13 weeks. Mint introduced the first coin in the American Innovation $1 Coin program. 
The obverse of each coin features the portrait of each of the Presidents, while the reverse shows the Statue of Liberty. Mint released the Presidential Golden Dollars. This was the first time the Statue of Liberty was shown on a circulating coin. The 2001 New York State Quarter, shows the most famous image of the Statue of Liberty. It was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and built on a framework by Gustave Eiffel, who also built the Eiffel Tower in Paris. A gift from the people of France to celebrate American liberty and freedom, it was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886, in New York Harbor. The Statue of Liberty is the world’s greatest symbol of freedom.
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