美国造币厂公布了 2023 年美国女性 25 分硬币的设计，由 Althea Gibson、Juliette Gordon Low、Stacey Park Milbern、Vera Rubin 和 Ida B. Wells-Barnett 主演

每件设计都向其中一位女性及其对美国历史的贡献致敬。

The U.S. Mint has unveiled the designs for five new American Women Quarters featuring Althea Gibson, Juliette Gordon Low, Stacey Park Milbern, Vera Rubin, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Each design pays tribute to one of the women and their contributions to U.S. history.

美国造币厂公布了五枚全新美国女性 25 分硬币的设计，其中包括 Althea Gibson、Juliette Gordon Low、Stacey Park Milbern、Vera Rubin 和 Ida B. Wells-Barnett。每款设计都向其中一位女性及其对美国历史的贡献致敬。

“They each have so much character in them. These women’s stories are now literally actually embodied in a physical object, in one quarter.

“他们每个人都有很多性格。这些女性的故事现在实际上体现在一个物理对象中，四分之一。

That is something that everyone across the country can literally hold in their hand,”

这是全国每个人都可以握在手中的东西。”

Elizabeth C. Babcock, the director of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, which collaborated with the U.S. Mint on the series, told Artnet News. “There is a physicality, a tangible nature to this celebration that I think is really special.”

史密森尼美国妇女历史博物馆馆长伊丽莎白·C·巴布科克 (Elizabeth C. Babcock) 告诉 Artnet 新闻，该博物馆与美国造币厂合作制作了该系列作品。 “我认为这次庆祝活动有一种物质性、一种有形的本质，这非常特别。”

Each coin's reverse has been designed by an artist from the mint’s Artistic Infusion Program, which is responsible for the nation’s coins and medals. (In March, the mint added 25 new AIP artists to its existing staff of 13.) The mint’s six medallic artists are responsible for translating the portraits into tiny relief sculptures.

每枚硬币的反面均由造币厂艺术注入计划的一位艺术家设计，该计划负责国家的硬币和奖牌。 （3 月份，造币厂在现有 13 名员工的基础上新增了 25 名 AIP 艺术家。）造币厂的六名奖章艺术家负责将肖像转化为微型浮雕。

The coin for Gibson is designed by Don Everhart and sculpted by Renata Gordon. Elana Hagler designed the Wells and Milbern quarters, sculpted by Phebe Hemphill and Craig A. Campbell, respectively. Designer Tom Hipschen and medallic artist Eric David Custer teamed up on Low’s coin. Finally, Rubin’s coin is designed by Christina Hess and sculpted by John P. McGraw.

吉布森的硬币由唐·埃弗哈特 (Don Everhart) 设计，雷娜塔·戈登 (Renata Gordon) 雕刻。 Elana Hagler 设计了 ​​Wells 和 Milbern 宿舍，分别由 Phebe Hemphill 和 Craig A. Campbell 负责雕刻。设计师 Tom Hipschen 和奖章艺术家 Eric David Custer 联手设计了 Low 的硬币。最后，鲁宾的硬币由克里斯蒂娜·赫斯设计，约翰·P·麦格劳雕刻。

All the coins in the series also feature a George Washington portrait on the obverse—but not the one you’re typically used to seeing on quarters, which is by John Flanagan. Instead, it is a similar version of Washington’s visage (facing to the right, not the left) designed by Laura Gardin Fraser, a prominent early 20th-century sculptor who was the first woman to design a U.S. coin.

该系列的所有硬币的正面都刻有乔治·华盛顿的肖像，但不是您通常在 25 美分硬币上看到的肖像，而是约翰·弗拉纳根 (John Flanagan) 的肖像。相反，它是由 20 世纪初著名雕塑家劳拉·加丁·弗雷泽 (Laura Gardin Fraser) 设计的华盛顿面容的类似版本（面向右侧，而不是左侧），她是第一位设计美国硬币的女性。

Flanagan’s design has been in circulation since 1932, the 200th anniversary of the first president’s birth. A bicentennial committee held a competition for the half dollar, asking for artists to base their design on the bust Jean-Antoine Houdon made after a 1785 visit with Washington.

弗拉纳根的设计自 1932 年第一任总统诞生 200 周年以来一直在流通。一个二百年纪念委员会举办了一场半美元竞赛，要求艺术家以让-安托万·乌东 (Jean-Antoine Houdon) 1785 年访问华盛顿后制作的半身像为基础进行设计。

(The plaster sculpture is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and is the basis for a marble monument at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond.)

（这尊石膏雕塑收藏于华盛顿特区的国家肖像画廊，也是里士满弗吉尼亚州议会大厦大理石纪念碑的基础。）

Though Fraser won the competition, Andrew Mellon, the Secretary of the Treasury, ultimately picked Flanagan’s portrait for the new quarter. Fraser’s overlooked Washington—which was also used for a 1999 commemorative $5 gold coin—is the perfect choice for a coin series recognizing women’s achievements, which all too often go unsung.

尽管弗雷泽赢得了比赛，但财政部长安德鲁·梅隆最终选择了弗拉纳根的肖像作为新季度的肖像。弗雷泽的华盛顿图案被忽视了——它也被用于制作 1999 年 5 美元纪念金币——是表彰女性成就的硬币系列的完美选择，而这些成就往往被忽视。

The new American Women Quarters are set to be released in 2025, as the final year for the program, which was announced in 2020, as part of the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act. That same year, Congress also passed a bill approving the creation of a new Smithsonian museum dedicated to women’s history.

新的美国女性 25 枚硬币计划于 2025 年发行，作为该计划的最后一年，该计划于 2020 年作为《流通收藏币重新设计法案》的一部分宣布。同年，国会还通过了一项法案，批准建立一个新的史密森尼博物馆，专门展示妇女历史。

The museum’s opening is still many years off. Congress needs to pass legislation approving a proposed site, after which the process of choosing an architect and designing the building can begin. But in the meantime, the museum has already begun staging online exhibitions and holding programming celebrating the subjects of the American Women Quarters.

距离博物馆开幕还有很多年。国会需要通过立法批准拟议地点，然后才能开始选择建筑师和设计建筑物的过程。但与此同时，博物馆已经开始举办在线展览并举办庆祝美国妇女区主题的节目。

Partnering with the U.S. Mint on the coin series was a natural fit for the fledgling institution, which has the mission of telling the stories of women in U.S. history, both collectively and individually.

与美国造币厂合作推出硬币系列对于这个刚刚起步的机构来说是天作之合，该机构的使命是讲述美国历史上女性集体和个人的故事。

“When you look at how we tell American history now, what kids grow up learning in school and in their textbooks, there are these gaps there. Women are just not represented,” Babcock said. “But we’re 51 percent of the population, and we were there during all those historic moments that shaped American history.”

“当你看看我们现在如何讲述美国历史，孩子们在学校和教科书中长大的学习内容时，就会发现存在这些差距。女性只是没有代表，”巴布科克说。 “但我们占总人口的 51%，而且我们见证了塑造美国历史的所有历史性时刻。”

The U.S. Mint began issuing special new quarter designs with the United States Commemorative Coins Act of 1996. The first were the popular 50 States Quarters, issued from 1999 through 2008, followed by coins for the District of Columbia and the territories in 2009.

美国造币厂开始根据 1996 年《美国纪念币法案》发行特殊的新 25 美分硬币。第一个是 1999 年至 2008 年发行的广受欢迎的 50 个州 25 美分硬币，随后是 2009 年为哥伦比亚特区和各领地发行的硬币。

The American Women Quarters follow the America the Beautiful Quarters, which from 2010 to 2021 featured national parks and national forests. The 2020 coin redesign act calls for five quarters celebrating the nation’s semiquincentennial in 2026, and then up to five new coins each year from 2027 to 2030 for youth sports.

美国女性区紧随“美国美丽区”之后，从 2010 年到 2021 年，“美国美丽区”以国家公园和国家森林为特色。 2020 年硬币重新设计法案要求在 2026 年用五个季度庆祝国家五十周年纪念，然后从 2027 年到 2030 年每年为青少年体育推出最多五枚新硬币。

To choose the 20 honorees for the women’s quarters, the mint invited the public to make recommendations. The goal was to highlight an

为了选出女性区的 20 名获奖者，造币厂邀请公众提出建议。目标是强调