The US Mint revealed today that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs will appear on one of the coins in next year’s American Innovation $1 Coin Program. Here are the details.
Since 2018, the US Mint has been honoring “American innovation and significant innovation and pioneering efforts of individuals or groups by issuing $1 coins with designs emblematic of innovation in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the five U.S. territories.”
In the past, the program has honored inventors and inventions such as the lightbulb (New Jersey), the Hubble Space Telescope (Maryland), and George Washington Carver (Missouri). For next year, the Mint has revealed four new designs, with Jobs featured on the coin representing California.
Here’s the Mint’s description of the coin, which was designed by Elana Hagler, and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill:
“This design presents a young Steve Jobs sitting in front of a quintessentially northern California landscape of oak-covered rolling hills. His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection, show how this environment inspired his vision to transform complex technology into something as intuitive and organic as nature itself. Inscriptions are ‘UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’ and ‘CALIFORNIA.’ Additional inscriptions are ‘STEVE JOBS’ and ‘MAKE SOMETHING WONDERFUL.’”
The other three coins will honor Dr. Norman Borlaug (Iowa), Cray-1 Supercomputer (Wisconsin), and mobile refrigeration (Minnesota).
You can find out more about the American Innovation® $1 Coin Program here.
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