Here’s one we love because it bridges both sides of what we sell. On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, guaranteeing American women the right to vote. Fifty years later, on August 26, 1970, the Postal Service marked the anniversary with a 6-cent commemorative stamp, simply titled “Woman Suffrage.”
The coin side of the story came a few years after that. In 1979, the US Mint introduced the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first American circulating coin to depict a real woman rather than an allegorical figure. It wasn’t a popular coin in its day (too easily confused with a quarter, if you ask most people who carried one), but it’s a genuinely significant piece of numismatic history for exactly that first.
Whichever side of this hobby has your heart, there’s a piece of this story sitting in a box or an album somewhere. Do you have either one in your collection?