1 Dollar (Women’s Suffrage Centennial) , United States
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Obverse
Overlapping profiles of three distinct women. Each woman is wearing a different type of hat to symbolize the many decades the suffrage movement spanned. The figure in the foreground is wearing a cloche hat with an art deco pattern and a button with the year of the 19th Amendment’s ratification.
Latin
LIBERTY $1 E PLURIBUS UNUM
Reverse
“2020” being dropped into a ballot box, styled with art deco elements to indicate the artistic style of the era. “VOTES FOR WOMEN” is inscribed inside a circle on the front of the box.
Latin
VOTES FOR WOMEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GOD WE TRUST
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