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‘Hidden Figures’ Step into the Light on Medals

On Sept. 23, 2020, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee met to review and provide the secretary treasury with their recommendations for the obverse and reverse designs for the “Hidden Figures” Congressional gold medal.
“Hidden Figures” are women first employed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the precursor of NASA, to be human computers beginning in 1935, according to NASA history

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