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US mint limited edition Open from December 10   The 2020 United States Mint (Mint) Limited Edition Silver Proof Set (product code 20RC will be available for purchase beginning on December 10 at noon EST. The set is priced at $201. Orders will be limited to two per household, with production limited to 50,000 sets. The 2020 Limited Edition Silver Proof Set includes, 1: American Eagle One Ounce Silver Proof Coin with the “S” mint mark, 2: Five Quarters from the America the Beautiful Quarters Program honoring National Park of American Samoa, Weir Farm National Historic Site (Connecticut), Salt River Bay National Historical Park & Ecological Preserve (U.S. Virgin Islands), Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park (Vermont), and Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (Kansas). 3: Kennedy half dollar, 4: Roosevelt dime.   All coins in the Limited Edition Silver Proof Set are from the San Francisco Mint. This set contains 2.75 ounces (78.04 grams) of silver, with the quarters,

Officially announced the designs For the 2020 American Innovation! The United States Mint (Mint) officially announced the designs for the 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin Program. The new designs will appear on the reverses (tails) of $1 coins honoring innovations and/or innovators from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, and South Carolina. Mint Chief Engraver Joseph Menna created and sculpted the Maryland American Innovation $1 Coin design. Mint Artistic Infusion Program artists created the designs for the remaining 2020 American Innovation $1 Coins, which Mint Medallic Artists sculpted. Here’s what the public can expect to see: 1: American Innovation – Connecticut, Designer: Richard Masters, Sculptor-Engraver: Renata Gordon. The Connecticut $1 Coin recognizes the Gerber Variable Scale. The design depicts the scale being used to increase a geometric shape by 200 percent, a shape that resembles the state of Connecticut. Inscriptions are “United States Of America,

The US Mint and NASA Celebrates Decades of Coins and Space What’s been to Mars, the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Kuiper Belt? The answer may surprise you – U.S. coins. In addition to sending coins to space, the Mint also designs coins and medals to honor the accomplishments of the U.S. space program. This year, two coin programs mark the achievements of the Gemini and Apollo space programs: the 2019 Native American $1 Coin and the Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Program. The 2019 Native American $1 Coin highlights Mary Golda Ross of the Cherokee Nation, who was the first Native American engineer in the U.S. space program. Her research for Lockheed Martin’s top secret think tank, Skunk Works helped to develop the Agena spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo space programs. The coin design features Ross writing calculations, with an Atlas-Agena rocket launching into space in the background with an equation inscribed i

US mint releasing the Platinum Proof Coin Series on January 31 The United States Mint (Mint) will release the second coin in its Preamble to the Declaration of Independence Platinum Proof Coin Series on January 31 at noon EST. Launched in 2018, this three-year platinum proof coin series features all new obverse (heads) designs created concurrently by one designer and a new common reverse (tails) design. The obverse (heads) of the 2019 “Liberty” version of the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence Platinum Proof Coin (product code 19EJ)portrays Lady Liberty keeping watch over prairies, lakes, and mountains as pioneers head westward. The wild terrain in the background evokes the quintessential American spirit to explore new territory and the freedom to pursue new landscapes, ideas, and ways of life. In the foreground, Lady Liberty’s lips are parted, symbolizing freedom of speech. Her torch is an emblem of the guiding light that liberty provides, while the open bo

Commemorative Coin to Launch on January 24, 2019 The world eagerly watched on July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” E. Aldrin, Jr. took mankind’s first steps on the Moon. This unprecedented engineering, scientific, and political achievement was the culmination of the efforts of an estimated 400,000 Americans and secured our Nation’s leadership in space for generations to come.   The Apollo 11 crew—Armstrong, Aldrin, and Michael Collins—safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969, fulfilling the national goal set in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. Nearly half a century later, the United States is the only country ever to have attempted and succeeded in landing humans on a celestial body other than Earth and safely returning them home. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon, Public Law 114-282 authorizes a four-coin program at US Mint: a curved $5 gold coin, a curved $1 silver coin, a curved half-dollar clad coin, a

A collaborative project of US Mint with Royal Australian Mint The United States Mint (Mint) announced a collaborative project with the Royal Australian Mint. The two Mints will produce a commemorative coin set in celebration of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing on July 20, 1969. The set will feature a U.S. Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Half Dollar paired with an Australian 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing 1 oz. $5 Silver Coin. The limited production set will be sold and distributed by the Royal Australian Mint, and will include a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the Director of the United States Mint and the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Australian Mint. The United States Mint will market the set on its website and provide a link to the Royal Australian Mint’s website for U.S. customers who wish to purchase the product. “This jointly–issued coin set magnificently symbolizes our long standing alliance and friendship with Australia,” said United States

The first release in the series, On sale December 14 Designed to highlight American creativity and resourcefulness, the American Innovation $1 Coin Program challenges each State or Territory to define its place in the Nation’s history of innovation. Each of these jurisdictions, in consultation with the Department of the Treasury, identifies concepts emblematic of an innovation, an innovator, or a group of innovators unique to that location and significant to the country’s progress. The Secretary of the Treasury approves the final design to be struck on each State’s or Territory’s representative coin.   The 2018 American Innovation $1 Proof Coin launches the American Innovation $1 Coin Program, which celebrates and honors significant American innovation and pioneering efforts of individuals or groups in each of the 50 States, District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. A beautiful proof coin is with sharp relief and a mirror-like background with frosted foregr