The U.S. Mint has launched the 2024 Harriet Tubman Silver Dollar as a part of the Harriet Tubman Commemorative Coin Program. The cash embrace $5 gold cash, $1 silver cash and half-dollar cash honoring the bicentennial of her start.

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The U.S. Mint has launched the 2024 Harriet Tubman Silver Dollar as a part of the Harriet Tubman Commemorative Coin Program. The cash embrace $5 gold cash, $1 silver cash and half-dollar cash honoring the bicentennial of her start.

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Three commemorative cash that includes famed abolitionist and human rights activist Harriet Tubman have now been launched to the general public, the U.S. Mint mentioned.

The cash, which have been launched Thursday as a part of the Harriet Tubman Commemorative Coin Program, embrace $5 gold cash, $1 silver cash and half-dollar cash that honor the bicentennial of her start.

The designs featured on the cash observe the three durations of Tubman’s life and her work as an abolitionist and social activist.

“Every coin produced by the United States Mint helps to tell a story that teaches us about America’s history or connects us to a special memory,” U.S. Mint Director Ventris Gibson mentioned in an announcement.

Gibson signed 250 Certificates of Authenticity for the 2024 Harriet Tubman Three-Coin Proof Set, which shall be randomly inserted into unmarked units, the U.S. Mint mentioned.

“We hope this program will honor the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman and inspire others to learn more about this amazing woman,” Gibson mentioned.

The silver dollar design portrays Tubman’s time as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. The half-dollar design showcases Tubman holding a spyglass in entrance of a row of Civil War-era tents, symbolizing her work as a scout and spy for the Union Army throughout the Civil War.

The $5 gold coin design represents Tubman’s life after the Civil War, as she is proven “gazing confidently into the distance and towards the future,” the U.S. Mint mentioned in its description.

The launch of Tubman’s commemorative coin comes on the heels of steady efforts by some lawmakers to switch President Andrew Jackson with the abolitionist on the $20 invoice, after previous attempts to take action failed.

Last June, Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, introduced the “Woman on the Twenty Act of 2023” bill, which might require all U.S. $20 payments printed after December 31, 2026, to characteristic a portrait of Tubman on the entrance face of the invoice.

The Biden administration announced in January 2021 that it could resume efforts to revamp the $20 invoice to characteristic Tubman, saying they have been “exploring ways to speed up that effort.”

So far, there have been no updates from the administration on the progress of the invoice’s redesign.

In April 2016, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that Tubman’s portrait can be on a redesigned $20 be aware, to be unveiled in 2020. The picture of Jackson, a slaveholder, can be moved to the invoice’s reverse aspect.

However, the initiative made little progress below the Trump administration.

Born Araminta Ross, Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland round 1822. She later married John Tubman, a free Black man, round 1844 and adjusted her identify from Araminta to Harriet. She escaped slavery in 1849 and helped many others to freedom.