SUSAN
B. ANTHONY DOLLARS (1978-1999)
From 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999, the Mint produced Anthony Dollars, depicting Susan B. Anthony,
the first non-fictitious woman portrayed on circulating U.S. coinage.
(Many earlier circulating coins featured images of women, but the women
depicted were all non-specific representations of Liberty. Spain's Queen Isabella was portrayed on the 1893 Columbian Exposition quarter dollar,
but it was not intended as a circulating coin, although some did
circulate.) The Anthony dollars, like the Eisenhower dollars, were made from a
copper-nickel clad. The 1981 coins were issued for collectors only, but
occasionally show up in circulation.