The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia recently hosted a ceremonial strike for the 2024 Harriet Tubman commemorative coin, writes Racquel Williams for KYW Newsradio. 

The coin celebrates the bicentennial of Tubman’s birth and memorializes the activist who guided numerous enslaved individuals to freedom. 

“It’s about time that this Moses of our people is recognized in such an amazing way, that people all across this nation will have an opportunity to memorialize her in this way with the U.S. Mint,” said Rev. Dr. Steven Pogue, pastor of the Greater Centennial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in New York City.

The mint will produce up to 50,000 $5 gold coins, 400,000 $1 silver coins, and 750,000 half-dollar coins, and each will follow three periods of Tubman’s life and work. 

The silver dollar reflects her work with the Underground Railroad; the half-dollar represents her work during the Civil War as a Union nurse and scout; and the $5 gold coin represents her life after the war.

Proceeds will benefit the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged in Auburn, New York, and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

The coins will be available for purchase on January 4, 2024.

Read more about the Harriet Tubman commemorative coin in KYW Newsradio.

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