December 11, 2023 -
By Sharon McPike December 11, 2023 The United States Mint hosted representatives from the Harriet Tubman Home, Inc. and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to ceremoniously strike coins for the 2024 Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Program. The designs...
January 22, 2024 -
The American Innovation $1 Coin representing Missouri honors George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist, inventor, and educator. George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Missouri at the end of the Civil War. In the 1890s, he studied botany and agriculture...
January 22, 2024 -
The American Innovation $1 Coin representing Maine honors Dr. Bernard Lown and his invention of the direct current defibrillator. Dr. Bernard Lown was a Lithuanian-American cardiologist who was a pioneer in the research of sudden cardiac death. In 1962, Dr....
January 22, 2024 -
The American Innovation $1 Coin representing Alabama recognizes the invention of the Saturn V rocket. The Saturn V rocket was developed to support the Apollo space program for human exploration to the Moon. NASA launched 13 Saturn V rockets between...
January 22, 2024 -
The American Innovation $1 Coin representing Illinois recognizes the steel plow. The invention of the steel plow sparked the migration of Americans to the Midwest United States in the 1800s and the beginning of agriculture’s industrial age. In the early...
December 7, 2023 -
The theme of the 2024 Native American $1 Coin is the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. On June 2, 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law, granting U. S. citizenship to “all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial...
November 16, 2023 -
By Sharon McPike November 16, 2023 The U.S. Mint celebrated the Maria Tallchief Quarter during an event in Chicago, Illinois, on October 29. The event was held in partnership with the National Women’s History Museum and Lyric Opera of Chicago....
November 7, 2023 -
WASHINGTON–The United States Mint (Mint) will begin accepting orders for the 2023 American Innovation $1 Coin Reverse Proof Set on November 14 at noon EST. The set is priced at $28.00 (product code 23GC). There is a household limit of...
November 1, 2023 -
By Robyn Showanes November 1, 2023 The U.S. Mint celebrated the Maria Tallchief Quarter during an event in Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 29, 2023. The event was held in partnership with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum and the Osage...
October 19, 2023 -
WASHINGTON–The United States Mint (Mint) will begin accepting orders for the 2023 American Innovation $1 Coin Proof Set on October 26 at noon EDT. The set is priced at $24.00 (product code 23GA). The American Innovation® $1 Coin Program is...