The other side of the coin will feature a flying eagle.
United States has proposed to introduce a commemorative $100 coin featuring Lady Liberty – a neoclassical structure that stands tall in New York – as an African American.
New 24-karat gold coins will be issued in honor of the United States Mint’2 225th anniversary and a series of such coins will have an selection of racially diverse Lady Liberties.
The Mint in a statement released on Thursday said that the coin will “depict an allegorical Liberty in a variety of contemporary forms — including designs representing Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Indian-Americans among others.”
It also added that the new coins will reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the United States.
The new coin scheduled to be launched on April 6 will have the bust of an African American Liberty with a crown of Gold Stars.
Below the image of the Lady Liberty, the words “In god, we trust” will be engraved along with the dates 2017 and 1792 – the year Congress created the Mint.
The other side of the coin will feature a flying eagle.
“Our founding fathers realized the critical need for our fledgling nation to have a respected monetary system, and over the last 225 years, the Mint has never failed in its mission,” said Rhett Jeppson, the Mint’s principal deputy director.
In a move seen as an attempt to diversify the white male case to statesmen featured on American currency, the onetime slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman was named as the new face of the $20 banknote last April, the first time an African American was picked to feature on US currency.
The figure of Tubman was selected through a poll in which more than 600,000 people favored the hero of African American who escaped from slavery in Maryland and run legendary Underground Railroad that enabled thousands of slaves to flee to freedom in the 19th century.