The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a United States coin minted from 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999. It depicts women’s suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony on a dollar coin. It was the first circulating U.S. coin with the portrait of an actual woman rather than an allegorical female figure such as ‘Liberty’.[1] The reverse depicts an eagle flying above the moon (with the Earth in the background), a design adapted from the Apollo 11 mission insignia that was also present on the previously issued Eisenhower Dollar. It was one of the most unpopular coins in American history. Because of their similar size and color, it was found to be easy to mistake the coin for a quarter. The originally-planned hendecagon-shaped edge, which would have distinguished it from the quarter, had been replaced with a depiction of an hendecagon and the same reeded edge as the quarter, thus compounding the confusion. The Anthony dollar was disparagingly referred to as the “Carter quarter” or the “Anthony quarter.” The coin is often referred to affectionately by collectors as the “Susie B.” or “Susie”.  Click for high-res photo

The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a United States coin minted from 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999. It depicts women’s suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony on a dollar coin. It was the first circulating U.S. coin with the portrait of an actual woman rather than an allegorical female figure such as ‘Liberty’.[1] The reverse depicts an eagle flying above the moon (with the Earth in the background), a design adapted from the Apollo 11 mission insignia that was also present on the previously issued Eisenhower Dollar. It was one of the most unpopular coins in American history.

Because of their similar size and color, it was found to be easy to mistake the coin for a quarter. The originally-planned hendecagon-shaped edge, which would have distinguished it from the quarter, had been replaced with a depiction of an hendecagon and the same reeded edge as the quarter, thus compounding the confusion. The Anthony dollar was disparagingly referred to as the “Carter quarter” or the “Anthony quarter.”

The coin is often referred to affectionately by collectors as the “Susie B.” or “Susie”. 

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