2025-P Juliette Gordon Low

Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in Savannah, Georgia on March 12, 1912, gathering eighteen girls for the first troop meeting just months after meeting Robert Baden-Powell in England. Born into a prominent Georgia family in 1860, Low pursued her vision of building character, citizenship, and outdoor competence in young women despite profound hearing loss that affected her throughout adulthood. She poured personal funds into the early organization, traveled tirelessly to recruit volunteers, and lived to see Girl Scouting expand into a national movement before her death in 1927. The 2025 Philadelphia issue carries a mintage of 200,400,000 pieces and reached commerce through the Federal Reserve in the program's final calendar year, making it the most readily encountered of the five Low varieties struck for the American Women Quarters Program.

The reverse design honors Low's Girl Scout legacy and emerged from the Mint's Artistic Infusion Program designer pool, executed by the engraving staff at Philadelphia. The obverse retains Laura Gardin Fraser's 1932 right-facing Washington portrait, originally rejected for the bicentennial quarter and revived for the American Women series in 2022. Authentication on a Philadelphia strike begins with the small P mintmark on the obverse near the lower right of the bust truncation. Specifications match the standard clad quarter at 5.67 grams, 24.3 millimeters in diameter, with a reeded edge and a copper-nickel surface clad over a pure copper core. Genuine Philadelphia clad pieces show frosted Mint State luster on protected reverse fields when pulled from original bank-wrapped rolls.

Collector demand for this issue centers on early-release certified examples in MS67 and MS68 from Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) and Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC), with Position A and Position B die varieties tracked by both services. Roll hunters working through 2025 production should retain the highest-luster specimens, since elevated mintages historically suppress raw values while gem certified populations remain modest. For full context on the four-year program, see the Washington Quarters (American Women) series history.