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American Innovation® $1 Coin Program
Innovation lives here. Our American Innovation® $1 Coin Program honors historic ingenuity from every U.S. state & territory.
Throughout the last 200 years and across the globe, when an innovation or invention makes history, chances are American innovation was there. Our Nation’s drive for unexplored solutions and our refusal to take “no” for an answer live in the cities, farms, laboratories, and garages in every state of the union.
2023 American Innovation® Releases
Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio
From inventing the heroic Higgins boat in Louisiana to the first human lung transplant in Mississippi, to defending the Underground Railroad in Ohio, to the birth of American car culture in Indiana, this year’s coin releases represent the best of American innovation. Winning wars, saving lives, protecting the vulnerable, and celebrating freedom are exactly the reasons why American innovation is exceptional.
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2023 American Innovation® Releases
Indiana’s Behind the Wheel
As the Nation’s crossroads, Indiana played a role in the invention and development of headlights, rearview mirrors, tilt steering, cruise control, pneumatic rubber tires, and car heaters. Indiana also hosts the Indianapolis 500, one of the world’s oldest auto races.
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2023 American Innovation® Releases
Louisiana’s On Our Side
The Higgins Boat, the Allied forces’ amphibious landing craft, made famous on the beaches of Normandy, the Pacific, and elsewhere, was originally designed to operate in the swamps of Louisiana.
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2023 American Innovation® Releases
Mississippi’s Saving Lives
In 1963, the University of Mississippi Medical Center performed the first human lung transplant. This initial procedure opened the way for exciting developments in human transplantation and began a new era of therapy for disease in humans.
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2023 American Innovation® Releases
Ohio’s Sheltering the Vulnerable
Ohio was the southernmost free state bordering the northernmost slave states of Kentucky and Virginia. It had an estimated 3,000 miles of trails statewide with safe houses, or “stations,” that aided the runaways’ flights to freedom.
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Previous Years’ Releases
Keep your collection up to date with past years’ coins or just find your favorite state or territory. Not all inventory may be available.
Kentucky, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont
Celebrate the birth of bluegrass music, snowboarding, the historic yacht, Reliance, and rural electrification by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Virginia
Honor the first home video game console, the revolutionary Erie Canal, the first public university, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, South Carolina
From the Gerber Variable Scale to the Hubble telescope, to the trusty telephone, to civil rights pioneer, Septima Poinsette Clark, innovation lives in these states.
Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Astronomer, Annie Jump Cannon, the experimental Trustee’s Garden, a life-changing Polio vaccine, and the Edison light bulb are commemorated for your collection.
Inaugural American Innovation® Coin
This coin spotlights the first U.S. patent, awarded to Samuel Hopkins by President George Washington. Hopkins invented a process for making potash, a key ingredient in fertilizer.
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