WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new coin set from the United States Mint commemorates Dorchester County-born abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
The Harriet Tubman Commemorative Coin Program includes a $5 gold coin, a $1 silver coin and a half-dollar coin, available as a set or individually, according to a press release.
The coins depict Tubman as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, a Union nurse during the Civil War and in her later years.
The U.S. Mint says a portion of the proceeds will benefit the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the Harriet Tubman Home – which helped design the coins.
The release follows a renewed push by some lawmakers to replace Andrew Jackson with Tubman on the $20 bill – something Tubman’s great-great-great-grandniece, Ernestine “Tina” Martin Wyatt, says would make a bigger statement.
“The coins are fabulous but that $20 bill, for me, represents something greater about who she was and what she gave to the United States,” Wyatt said.
Pre-orders opened today at noon, to be shipped in early February.
The coins can be purchased online and at U.S. Mint stores
Introductory sales prices – based on the Mint’s Pricing of Numismatic Gold, Commemorative Gold, and Platinum Products table – are in effect until Feb. 5 at 3 p.m.