Finally tonight for Women's History Month, we take a look at a special series of quarters

honoring notable American women. This is the final year of the program, and one of the coins for

2025 features journalists and activist Ida B. Wells. We went to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia

to watch hers being made.

At the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, this is what they mean when they talk about making money.

This machine turns out more than $187 in quarters every 60 seconds.

These coins honor Ida B. Wells, the pioneering journalist and civil rights activist. It's one of the last in the Mint's four-year American Women Quarters series.

What happens in this area?

So this is the first step.

Production supervisor Clayton Quoddy explains the process.

So 80% of each coil gets turned into coins.

The coils weigh as much as 11,000 pounds each.

A machine punches out discs, the blank canvas for the coins.

A press stamps the design onto them, what's called striking.

When the mint began in 1792, it took three years to produce a million coins.

Now, 30 minutes.

About 350 million Ida B Wells quarters are expected to go into circulation. As an investigative journalist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

Wells raised awareness of the vicious violence against blacks in the era of lynching.

In 2020, she was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for that work.

As an activist, she pressed for a

federal anti-lynching law, something that didn't become a reality until 2022, 91 years after

her death. Wells was also at the forefront of efforts against segregated schools and for the vote

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