Celia Cruz on the 25-cent coin 2024
Latinos in the United States are proud to see Celia Cruz on the 25-cent coin.
Cuban-American singer Celia Cruz, who died in 2003, is the first Afro-Latino woman to appear on a 25-cent coin minted by the U.S. Mint.
The figure of Celia Cruz on the 25-cent coin was presented Thursday on the institution’s web page.
Celia Cruz thus becomes the 14th woman to receive this tribute, as part of the American Women Quarters program, which was launched in 2022.
Other women who have received this distinction are writer and activist Maya Angelou, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Mexican-American journalist Jovita Idar.
The singer, who went into exile in the U.S. in 1960 and was never able to return to Cuba -Fidel Castro did not even allow her to bury her mother-, died on July 16, 2003 in New Jersey, after battling a brain tumor. His remains are buried in New York.
Celia Cruz on the 25-cent coin
Celia Cruz on the 25 centavo coin also appears with the iconic phrase: “¡Azúcar!”.
The other side of Celia Cruz on the quarter features an effigy of George Washington, designed by artist Laura Gardin Fraser in 1932 to commemorate the 200th birthday of America’s first president.
The American Women Quarters program will continue through 2025 and aims to honor the advancements and contributions of women to the United States.
The U.S. Embassy in Cuba celebrated the milestone. “Let’s celebrate this historic moment and the legacy of the Queen of Salsa,” it said in a statement released on the X network.
Celia Cruz on the 25-cent coin is part of a series called American Women Quarters, which began issuing in 2022 and is to continue until 2025 in order to honor the advances and contributions of women to that country.
The program calls for five of these new coins to be issued each year, and in 2024, in addition to the Celia Cruz coin, coins were minted in honor of Episcopalian Reverend Pauli Murray, Patsy Takemoto Mink -the first woman of color to become a congresswoman-, surgeon and women’s rights advocate Mary Edwatds Walker, and political activist and educator Zitkala Sa.
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