Just in time for the closing of Black History Month, the U.S. Mint launched a new coin Tuesday featuring jazz legend Duke Ellington, making him the first African-American to appear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin.
Ellington won the honor of gracing the Washington, DC state quarter by a vote of D.C. residents, beating out abolitionist Frederick Douglass and astronomer Benjamin Banneker. (Read more at CNN.com)