“We hope this program will honor the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman and inspire others to learn more about this amazing woman,” said U.S. Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson.
The U.S. Mint has announced that the pre-sale of 2024
The $5 gold coin remembers her life after the Civil War. “The coin’s obverse features an image of Harriet Tubman in her years after the war, and the reverse depicts a two-handed gesture – a testament to Tubman’s unwavering altruism,” the Mint notes.
The three-coin proof set notes that Tubman, a once-enslaved person who freed herself and countless others, “lived a life committed to freedom, women’s suffrage, and dignity for all people” until she died in 1913.
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