U.S. Mint to Produce $1 American Innovation Coins
The United States Mint launched the first coin pursuant to the American Innovation $1 Coin Act (H.R. 770). This is the beginning of a 14-year dollar coin series that recognizes American innovation, commemorating innovation and innovators from each state, each U.S. territory, and the District of Columbia.
American Innovation $1 Coin Act
The law provides that four $1 coin designs will be issued during each year of the 14-year period until one coin featuring one innovation, an individual innovator, or a group of innovators, from each of the states, the District of Columbia, and territories
The U.S. Mint will kick off the series in 2018 with an initial $1 coin. Its reverse will feature inscriptions of “United States of America,” “American Innovators” and a representation of the signature of President George Washington on the first U.S. patent. The patent was issued on July 31, 1790, to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement in the making of
Coin Design of American Innovation Coin
The American Innovation $1 Coin Act provides that no head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design of any coin. All coins from the program will share a common obverse depicting the Statue of Liberty, plus inscriptions of “$1” and “In God We Trust.” The inscription of the year of minting or issuance of the coin, the mint mark, and the inscription ‘E Pluribus Unum’ must be edge-incused into the coin.
With respect to the coin design for each state, territory and the District of Columbia, the selection of the significant innovation, innovator, or group of innovators to be featured on the reverse of the coin will be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Governor or other chief executive of the State, the District of Columbia, or territory. Reverses will also include inscriptions of the “United States of America” and the location of the innovation/innovator — one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or U.S. territory.
Already A Controversial Series
The new series of dollar coins is already controversial. The coins will not be sold to banks by the Fed and therefore will not ever see circulation. While paper dollars continue to dominate commerce, the US Mint continues to make Native American dollars with the Sacagawea obverse. This new series replaces the Presidential dollar series which were at least struck for circulation even though they didn’t circulate.
The series got off to a rocky start with the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, CCAC, rejecting the first set of designs it received. Those designs included a proposal to use Don Everhart’s reverse design for the Presidential dollar coins as the obverse design for the new American Innovation dollars. The proposed reverses in the original package were even less appealing to the CCAC.
The Mint responded quickly and produced new designs for the CCAC and the Commission on Fine Arts to review. The result is an attractive obverse that utilizes negative space like no other American Coin since the Gobrecht Dollar.
The first coin in this new 14 year series will go on sale in time for holiday shopping.
U.S. Mint inazindua sarafu ya $ 1 ya ubunifu wa Marekani kwa mujibu wa Sheria ya Sarafu ya Uvumbuzi wa Marekani 770). Mfumo huu wa sarafu unaoanza mwaka wa 14 unawakumbuka wavumbuzi na wavumbuzi kutoka kila jimbo, eneo la Marekani na Wilaya ya Columbia. Sheria ya Uvumbuzi wa Dola ya Marekani (AUDIA) inatoa muundo wa sarafu ya dola moja kwa kila mwaka wa miaka 14 hadi sarafu moja ya dola moja ikiwa na ubunifu mmoja, mvumbuzi mmoja, au kikundi cha wavumbuzi kutoka kila jimbo, Wilaya ya Columbia, na maeneo ya Marekani. "Kinyume chake, kuna maandishi ya ""United States of America"" na ""American Innovators"" na ishara ya Rais George Washington kwenye hati miliki ya kwanza ya Marekani." "Samuel Hopkins, mwanzilishi wa ""American Innovation Coin Act"" alitoa hati miliki ya kutengeneza sarafu ya dola moja ya Marekani, ambayo ilisema kwamba ""hakuna picha ya kichwa au mabega au bust ya mtu yeyote na hakuna picha ya mtu aliye hai inaweza kuingizwa katika muundo wa sarafu yoyote.""" "Pamoja na alama ya ""E Pluribus Unum,"" sarafu zote za mwaka huu zitakuwa na picha ya Sanamu ya Uhuru, pamoja na maandishi ya ""In God We Trust"" na ""In God We Trust"" na maandishi ya mwaka wa kutengenezwa au kutolewa kwa sarafu hiyo, alama ya mint, na maandishi ya ""E Pluribus Unum"" lazima yaingizwe kwenye sarafu." Kwa habari ya muundo wa sarafu kwa kila jimbo, eneo na Wilaya ya Columbia, uteuzi wa ubunifu muhimu, mvumbuzi, au kikundi cha wavumbuzi kuonyeshwa nyuma ya sarafu utafanywa na Katibu wa Hazina, baada ya kushauriana na Gavana au Mtendaji Mkuu mwingine wa Jimbo, Wilaya ya Columbia, au Wilaya. "Mashine hiyo pia itaonyesha ""United States of America"" na ""Ukaguzi wa Uvumbuzi"" katika moja ya majimbo 50, Wilaya ya Columbia, au eneo la Marekani." Tayari Mfululizo wa Uhasama Mfululizo mpya wa sarafu za dola tayari ni utata. Sarafu hizo hazitauzwa kwa benki na Fed na kwa hiyo hazitawahi kuonekana kuzunguka. Wakati dola za karatasi zinaendelea kutawala biashara, US Mint inaendelea kufanya dola za Wenyeji wa Amerika na Sacagawea mbele. Mfululizo huu mpya inachukua nafasi ya mfululizo wa dola za Rais ambazo angalau zilipigwa kwa mzunguko ingawa hazikuzunguka. Mfululizo huo ulianza kwa mgogoro na Kamati ya Ushauri ya Fedha ya Raia, CCAC, ikikataa seti ya kwanza ya miundo iliyopokelewa. Miundo hiyo ilijumuisha pendekezo la kutumia muundo wa nyuma wa Don Everhart kwa sarafu za dola za Rais kama muundo wa mbele kwa dola mpya za Ubunifu wa Amerika. Mabadiliko yaliyopendekezwa katika mfuko wa awali hayakuvutia hata zaidi kwa CCAC. Mint ilijibu haraka na kutengeneza miundo mpya kwa CCAC na Tume ya Sanaa Nzuri kukagua. Matokeo ni mbele ya kuvutia ambayo hutumia nafasi hasi kama hakuna sarafu nyingine ya Marekani tangu Dola ya Gobrecht. Sarafu ya kwanza katika mfululizo huu mpya wa miaka 14 itaanza kuuzwa kwa wakati kwa ununuzi wa likizo.