Mint decided to put Anthony on a dollar coin to replace the larger Eisenhower Dollar. See: This Rare Bicentennial Quarter Has Nearly $20K Value - 7 More Worth Over $1,000Īlthough Anthony was known to historians and the women’s rights movement during the decades following her death, she was largely unknown to much of the U.S. $2,000 Quarter? Check Your Pockets Before You Use This 2004 Coinĭiscover: How To Get Cash Back on Your Everyday PurchasesĪnthony (1820-1906) was a women’s rights advocate, abolitionist and champion of fair labor laws whose work helped lead to the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, according to the National Women’s History Museum. Today, certain rare varieties of that dollar coin are worth up to $500. Anthony might have remained an important but little-remembered figure in American history if not for the decision to put her image on a $1 coin beginning in the late 1970s.