Anthony dollar was meant to correct this issue.

But this large size meant that the Eisenhower dollar had limited utility outside of slot machines and remote areas of the American West, where silver dollars circulated to some degree. As a circulating coin, the Ike dollar did not contain any silver collector versions were struck in a 40% silver-clad composition and sold at high premiums. The Eisenhower (or “Ike”) dollar’s cumbersome size was owed to the fact that the coin was based on the dimensions of a standard silver dollar. The new coin featuring her portrait was intended to be a more portable and useful replacement for the Eisenhower dollar, which had entered production in 1971 to honor the late president. These causes brought her into contact with women’s rights advocate Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with whom she partnered in lifelong efforts at political organization until Anthony’s death in 1906. Anthony was involved in the 19th-century abolitionist and temperance movements. Born in 1820 and raised in New York state as a Quaker, Susan B. It was also the first circulating non-commemorative coin to feature the portrayal of a real, historical woman. Anthony dollar, also known as the “Susie B” by some collectors, was the first clad small dollar coin produced for circulation in the United States.

Anthony Dollar – America’s First Clad Small Dollar Coin Anthony Dollar in Superb Gem Mint State condition.

Susan b anthony coin 1979 s value