Lady Liberty is African American this year.
Treasury & Mint officials unveiled the 2017 American Liberty High Relief Gold Coin! http://bit.ly/Event225_Unveiling … #USMint225 @USTreasury pic.twitter.com/0ShGHPn5oF
Treasury & Mint officials unveiled the 2017 American Liberty High Relief Gold Coin! https://t.co/HkfcPN5Enq #USMint225 @USTreasury pic.twitter.com/0ShGHPn5oF
— United States Mint (@usmint) January 12, 2017
Lady Liberty is African American this year.
Treasury & Mint officials unveiled the 2017 American Liberty High Relief Gold Coin! Lady Liberty is African American this year. from TheWatchTowers
Video of it’s unveiling:
http://www.yorkcast.com/treasury/events/2017/01/12/mint225/
For the First Time, Lady Liberty Depicted as a Woman of Color on U.S. Currency
In celebration of the U.S. Mint and Treasury’s 225th anniversary, the new $100 coin was unveiled on Thursday featuring Lady Liberty as a black woman.
Since the passage of the Coinage Act in 1792, all coins are required to feature an “impression emblematic of liberty,” in either words or images. Until the new coin designed by Justin Kunz was unveiled, Lady Liberty had always been depicted as a white woman.
