# American Innovation dollars

American Innovation dollars are dollar coins of a series minted by the United States Mint beginning in 2018 and scheduled to run through 2032. It is planned for each member of the series to showcase an innovation, innovator, or group of innovators from a particular state or territory, while the obverse features the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World).

## History

Legislation authorizing the American Innovation $1 Coin Program was approved by the United States Senate on June 20, 2018, amending an earlier House bill, and the Senate-amended bill was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 27, 2018. It was signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 18, 2018. The program was officially launched on December 14, 2018, with the release of a special introductory coin commemorating George Washington's signing of the first American patent into law, for a new method of making potash and pearl ash. However, these coins are not being released into circulation, and are only available at a premium in bags and rolls directly from the United States Mint. Uncirculated issues bear either the "P" or "D" mint mark signifying its mintage at the Philadelphia Mint or Denver Mint respectively. Proof and reverse proof coins struck for collectors bear the "S" mint mark signifying its mintage at the San Francisco Mint.
Four new coins will be released each year "celebrating innovations and innovators" from each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the five U.S. territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands). All coins issued through this program will have the same obverse design showing the Statue of Liberty, and will contain the words: "In God We Trust" and "$1".

### Coin designs

Coins will be issued depicting designs which symbolize "the willingness to explore, to discover, and to create one’s own destiny", according to the U.S. Mint's narrative. The program showcases an innovation, innovator or group of innovators from each State or territory in uncirculated and proof finishes.
In 2019, a privy mark was added to the obverse of the coin under "In God We Trust".
| Year | No. | Jurisdiction | Feature | Obverse privy mark | Design | Elements depicted | Release date | Mintage | Mintage | Mintage | Mintage |
| Year | No. | Jurisdiction | Feature | Obverse privy mark | Design | Elements depicted | Release date | Philadelphia | Denver | San Francisco | San Francisco |
| Year | No. | Jurisdiction | Feature | Obverse privy mark | Design | Elements depicted | Release date | Philadelphia | Denver | Proof | Reverse proof |
| 2018 | 1 | Introductory | First patent | None | | Introductory Design Signature of George Washington; four stylized gears | December 14, 2018 | 2,143,925 | 2,148,525 | 243,567 | 74,720 |
| 2019 | 2 | Delaware | Annie Jump Cannon | | | Silhouette of Cannon against a night sky with multiple stars | September 19, 2019 | 866,850 | 866,400 | 149,885 | 72,997 |
| 2019 | 3 | Pennsylvania | Polio vaccine | | | Microscope with the poliovirus at three magnification levels | October 24, 2019 | 884,000 | 886,325 | 149,885 | 73,087 |
| 2019 | 4 | New Jersey | Lightbulb | | | Edison light bulb | November 21, 2019 | 621,675 | 559,675 | 149,885 | 72,752 |
| 2019 | 5 | Georgia | Trustees' Garden | | | Hand planting seeds, with seedlings including orange tree, sassafras, grapes, white mulberry, flax, peach and olive | December 19, 2019 | 399,900 | 368,475 | 149,885 | 72,972 |
| 2020 | 6 | Connecticut | Gerber Variable Scale | | | Scale of Connecticut enlarged 200% | July 21, 2020 | 440,771 | 438,209 | 108,400 | 49,172 |
| 2020 | 7 | Massachusetts | Telephone | | | Early rotary dial | October 29, 2020 | 436,750 | 436,825 | 108,400 | 48,838 |
| 2020 | 8 | Maryland | Hubble Space Telescope | | | Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth, the background a field of stars | November 23, 2020 | 438,700 | 434,454 | 108,400 | 48,947 |
| 2020 | 9 | South Carolina | Septima Clark | | | Septima Clark marching with African American students. She and two girls are carrying books, and the boy a prominent American flag | January 19, 2021 | 432,850 | 397,800 | 108,400 | 48,413 |
| 2021 | 10 | New Hampshire | In-home video game system | | | Ralph Baer's Brown Box game Handball, game console prototype | June 8, 2021 | 453,825 | 453,800 | 82,921 | 49,289 |
| 2021 | 11 | Virginia | Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel | | | Cutaway of the tunnel with traffic | July 27, 2021 | 454,100 | 452,025 | 82,921 | 49,289 |
| 2021 | 12 | New York | Erie Canal | | | A packet boat on the Erie Canal being pulled by a draft horse | August 31, 2021 | 451,250 | 451,125 | 82,921 | 49,289 |
| 2021 | 13 | North Carolina | Higher education | | | A lamp of knowledge on a stack of three books, the middle entitled "First Public University", wreathed by olive branches | October 12, 2021 | 453,125 | 453,675 | 82,921 | 49,289 |
| 2022 | 14 | Rhode Island | Reliance yacht | | | Nathanael Herreshoff's The Reliance under full sail, the pinnacle of 1903 nautical engineering. Rope border. | February 23, 2022 | 453,650 | 452,575 | 73,702 | 46,463 |
| 2022 | 15 | Vermont | Snowboarding | | | A snowboarder doing a melon grab in midair set against a mountainous winter skyline. Designed in collaboration with Burton Snowboards, it sold out instantly. | April 26, 2022 | 463,116 | 451,750 | 73,702 | 46,463 |
| 2022 | 16 | Kentucky | Kentucky bluegrass | | | A diagonal banjo | June 28, 2022 | 450,900 | 451,350 | 73,702 | 46,463 |
| 2022 | 17 | Tennessee | Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | | | Newly installed power lines lining a rural road; the barn of classic gambel design and the tower silo are representative. | August 30, 2022 | 452,200 | 452,050 | 73,702 | 46,463 |
| 2023 | 18 | Ohio | Underground Railroad | | | Two masculine hands grasped diagonally, the upper arm pulling the lower strongly upwards, symbolically breaking the chain of slavery attached to its rustic shackle | January 30, 2023 | 421,400 | 319,800 | 99,200 | 42,300 |
| 2023 | 19 | Louisiana | Higgins boat | | | An empty Higgins boat with its landing ramp lying open on a quiet beach, storm clouds in the far distance | April 10, 2023 | 467,000 | 501,800 | 99,030 | 41,800 |
| 2023 | 20 | Indiana | Automobile industry | | | An early gas automobile, a classic car, and a modern Indy-style race car | June 26, 2023 | 459,775 | 443,650 | 49,936 | TBA |
| 2023 | 21 | Mississippi | First human lung transplant | | | A pair of human lungs with a pair of forceps passed from one hand to another | August 28, 2023 | 371,000 | 352,450 | 49,936 | TBA |
| 2024 | 22 | Illinois | Steel Plow | | | A steel plow blade, Big bluestem grass, field of soil | January 25, 2024 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2024 | 23 | Alabama | Saturn V Rocket | | | Saturn V rocket liftoff, Moon | April 08, 2024 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2024 | 24 | Maine | DC Defibrillator | | | Bas relief profile of Bernard Lown; direct current defibrillator in operation | May 16, 2024 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2024 | 25 | Missouri | George Washington Carver | | | Carver in his laboratory, gently smiling and looking at a Florence flask of one of his experiments; peanut leaves, blossoms, and fruit are in the background | July 18, 2024 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2025 | 26 | Arkansas | Raye Montague | | | Montague visualizing a USN Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate; the grid comprising the sea evokes the digitized engineering and drafting techniques she devised | January 7, 2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2025 | 27 | Michigan | Automobile assembly line | | | A 1930s-era automobile assembly line | TBD 2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2025 | 28 | Florida | Space Shuttle | | | A Space Shuttle lifting off from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center | TBD 2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2025 | 29 | Texas | International Space Station | | | An American astronaut conducting a spacewalk | TBD 2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2026 | 30 | Iowa | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2026 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2026 | 31 | Wisconsin | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2026 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2026 | 32 | California | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2026 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2026 | 33 | Minnesota | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2026 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2027 | 34 | Oregon | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2027 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2027 | 35 | Kansas | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2027 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2027 | 36 | West Virginia | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2027 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2027 | 37 | Nevada | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2027 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2028 | 38 | Nebraska | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2028 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2028 | 39 | Colorado | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2028 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2028 | 40 | North Dakota | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2028 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2028 | 41 | South Dakota | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2028 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2029 | 42 | Montana | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2029 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2029 | 43 | Washington | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2029 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2029 | 44 | Idaho | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2029 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2029 | 45 | Wyoming | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2029 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2030 | 46 | Utah | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2030 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2030 | 47 | Oklahoma | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2030 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2030 | 48 | New Mexico | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2030 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2030 | 49 | Arizona | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2030 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2031 | 50 | Alaska | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2031 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2031 | 51 | Hawaii | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2031 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2031 | 52 | District of Columbia | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2031 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2031 | 53 | Puerto Rico | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2031 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2032 | 54 | Guam | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2032 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2032 | 55 | American Samoa | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2032 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2032 | 56 | United States Virgin Islands | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2032 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| 2032 | 57 | Northern Mariana Islands | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBD 2032 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |