The United States Mint will release its 2025 American Women Quarters Silver Proof Set™ today at noon Eastern Time.
Priced at $95.00, the set includes five proof quarters struck at the San Francisco Mint, showcasing the final designs in the U.S. Mint’s four-year American Women Quarters™ Program. Each coin features a proof finish, with frosted design elements and mirror-like fields – achieved by striking polished planchets multiple times with specially prepared dies.
The 2025 set honors the following trailblazing American women:
- Ida B. Wells – investigative journalist, suffragist, educator, and civil rights leader
- Juliette Gordon Low – founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA
- Dr. Vera Rubin – astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation, providing evidence of dark matter
- Stacey Park Milbern – disability justice activist
- Althea Gibson – trailblazing Black athlete in tennis and golf
These individuals are the 16th through 20th honorees in the American Women series, which began in 2022 and features five new coins each year through 2025.
For reference, the non-silver/clad 2025 Quarters Proof Set debuted on February 20th and has recorded sales of 29,725 as of April 13.
The individuals celebrated appear on the reverse (tails side) of their respective quarters, accompanied by inscriptions reading "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "E PLURIBUS UNUM," and "QUARTER DOLLAR," along with additional inscriptions specific to each honoree.
The obverse (heads side) of each quarter offers a portrait of George Washington, the first President of the United States. This portrait, used for all quarters in the series, was originally created by Laura Gardin Fraser as a candidate entry for the 1932 quarter.
2025 Proof Silver Quarter Specifications
| Denomination: |
Quarter
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|---|---|
| Finish: |
Proof
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| Composition: |
99.9% silver
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| Weight: |
6.343 grams (each at 0.199 troy oz.)
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| Diameter: |
0.955 inch (24.26 mm)
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| Edge: |
Reeded
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| Mint and Mint Mark: |
San Francisco – S
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The total silver weight for all five coins in the set equals 1.01966 troy ounces.
Ordering, Limits, and Price
2025 American Women Quarters Silver Proof Sets may be ordered directly from the U.S. Mint via its page dedicated to quarter products, or by calling 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468).
For the first 24 hours, purchases are limited to five sets per household. The product is limited to 34,980 sets.
Pricing is $15 higher than the debut price of each of the two prior sets, which remain available but are now also listed at $95. According to the latest U.S. Mint-reported figures, sales total 46,137 for the 2023 set and 34,321 for the 2024 set. The 2022 silver set, which is no longer available from the Mint, had last reported sales of 57,696.
Sales of the 2025 American Eagle Gold Proofs have been a complete disaster.
From both the perspective of the U.S. Mint and an investor.
w/e 04/21/2025 sales:
2025 American Eagle Gold Proof 1 oz. 1890 +226
2025 American Eagle Gold Proof ½ oz. 836 +54
2025 American Eagle Gold Proof ¼ oz. 1171 +238
2025 American Eagle Gold Proof 1/10 oz. 3564+237
2025 American Eagle Gold Proof 4 coin set 2061 +48
With more than a little self-interest at heart, I’m licking my chops over those numbers, cag. Keep up the slow work, Mint.
REB,
The market consists of different perspectives. You collect, I invest. From my point of view, the previous years’ mintages for Any Type 2 American Gold Eagle proofs are preferable to the current mintages.
On the Bullion side of the United States Mint.
Through 04/21/2025:
1 oz. American Gold Eagles sales = 73,500 coins
1/10 oz. American Gold Eagle sales = 110,000 coins
Compare that to just January 2024 sales:
1 oz. American Gold Eagles sales = 87,500 coins
1/10 oz. American Gold Eagle sales = 115,000 coins
So. Through 04/21/2025 there have been fewer 1 oz. and 1/10 oz. American Gold Eagle bullion coins sold than were sold in just one month of January 2024.
23 All Time Gold Highs in 2025 and 2025 Gold sales from the U.S. Mint are dismal…
Well, the Au price jump digs into sale IMO, GLD etf as well. Middlemen jacking up cost, Cag have you any #$ on say Mplf and Other sales, Krand silver….
considering the current selling price for either proof or bullion 2025 AGEs, sales are surprisingly strong. Not sure what your point is….prices are up substantially, thus reducing demand…..there will always be demand for US sovereign gold coins…..has been since 1790s.
“23 All Time Gold Highs in 2025 and 2025 Gold sales from the U.S. Mint are dismal…”. And so what??? With premiums as high as they are, no wonder. Price point of US Mint gold has removed a lot of people from purchasing. Costco has good deals on gold plus so do some dealers. Higher prices lower mintages sound familiar?
$95……. Whoa Nelly, so $1.25…. .999. About 1.5z
34- $51 Ag value…..l. Seems right, to further demand destruction. Maybe, maybe not seems like this will be $125 next season….
Cag disaster is 5he pricing!!!! Your goal no USM gold sales, getting there. Ridiculous pricing to cover losses on the crap. Direct bullion sales please….
With Au over $3k a $1k premium on 1z is not very attractive…AND should gold hit $4k…$5k the proofs go into the smelters…..vaporized the mint premium goes
Ooops 1.25oz. So only about $42 so double plus.
w/e 04/11/2025 GLD took in $2.1 Billion is just 1 week…
The price of Gold has the same basis whether it is bullion or an ETF.
One does Not have a premium (ETF’s) and One does (U.S. Mint’s Gold)
One is In favor (ETF’s) and One is Out of favor (U.S. Mint’s Gold).
Depends, physical gold still the gold standard regardless of the ETF. One you get to hold gold, have it, the other some paper maybe. Or take delivery and have a Au bar sliced up. And pre ‘33 has actually picked up prices on selling and buy back end. CC gold another pop. Time will tell.
The USM premiums keep going up, especially proof, bullion USM desire to keep, it’s % above intrinsic and the tack on from middle men. Stocks a better way to make money, but 5he current environment is not conducive to market play
“stocks a better way to make money’
In the past 25 years, Gold has outperformed the S&P 500 with less beta…
I should have said short term w luck. Gold is truly golden nowadays
Today GLD was the 21st most actively traded ETF with 34.2 million shares traded.
On a dollar basis GLD was the 3rd most actively traded ETF.
#1 SPY traded $34.9 billion (S&P 500)
#2 QQQ traded $21.6 billion (Nasdaq 100)
#3 GLD traded $10.6 billion (Gold)
Short selling profit Grift, same old story.
More U.S.Mint Modern Math? From the specs listed :
each coin has 0.199 Troy ounces of silver
Next sentence in the article – the total silver weight for all five coins in the set equals 1.01966 Troy ounces.
Anybody bother to pull out the old calculator before publication?
5 X less than 0.2 cannot equal more than 1.0 (at least in the mathematics I taught for 33+ years)
Good catch, Dave. Looks to be more like CoinNews.net fuzzy math. US Mint specs only say silver weight 0.199 troy oz. for each quarter.
Actually DaveSWF, Rich and others, I’ve broached this topic previously(Mint News Blog and possibly Coin News)and no one would give it a second thought. It is indeed the U.S. Mint at fault and not Coin News. Check out the specs, the U.S. Mint published on the 2021 Silver Proof set, prior to deciding to change from grams. to Troy ounces. They list the purity at 99.9% and the gram weight as 6.343gm. I’d maintained they had shrinkflated the Silver quarters when they moved to Troy ounces from grams. The math in the article is correct as 5 X 6.343 is… Read more »
shouldn’t be too hard for someone with a nice accurate scale to just weigh it and figure out which weight is correct… don’t the grading agencies check that?
Cali, you may be correct about the Mint possibly shrinkflating the Silver quarters (by about 0.005 troy oz) when they moved to Troy ounces from grams in 2022 for the first American Women Silver Proof Quarters. For all four of the 2022 – 2025 American Women Quarters Silver Proof Sets, the Mint specifications only stated the quarter silver weight to be 0.199 troy oz. I wonder why then CoinNews kept listing the weight as 6.343 grams for the 2024 set, and now as 6.343 grams (each at 0.199 troy oz.) for the final 2025 set, instead of just using the… Read more »
I managed to dig up my old post from MNB on December 24, 2021. I said: “Larry says: “ Both sets have 5 99.9% silver quarters, so the silver weight must be the same. Right?” No Larry, that is not correct. The 2020 set was “ Silver content – 1.12 oz. (31.72 g)”, which is “Not the same” as the 2022 iwhich will consist of “ Five-coin set includes a total of 0.995 troy oz. of 99.9 percent fine silver”” 31.72 grams in relation to the overall weight of 2020 S Ag $.25 PF set, is slightly MORE than 1… Read more »
Reb in the previous thread, you said: “But, perhaps the wildest musician on the bill that day was a guy from England who shredded an otherworldly guitar while … wait for it … turning the tuning pegs! All the other musicians’ mouths were agape. The host marveled out loud, “How did he stay in tune?” I wish I had gotten this guy’s name.” Reb, you again inspired me to look for what you may have witnessed and wonder if this is something similar or maybe even the guy you mention? The linked video I originally found was titled: “Guy uses… Read more »
Big flip flop on gold &silver today but the G:S still over 100!