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American Innovation® $1 Coin – Maine

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....

American Innovation® $1 Coin – Alabama

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...

American Innovation® $1 Coin – Illinois

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...

2024 Native American $1 Coin

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...

Historic Change: Celebrating Prima Ballerina Maria Tallchief

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...