New Innovation Dollars proposed designs...

Basketball or sneakers?

 

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These coins are being issued from East to West.

I wonder what California will have left to use as an "innovation".

 

I couldn't agree more. I thought this of the "America the Beautiful" quarter program originally, but this will apparently take the cake with three layers of frosting.
At this point, I would love to see some changes to our coinage system, even in the age of reduced demand for physical money. Maybe we need to tone it down a notch, and change designs once per year, and make the designs count for a change.

 

Maybe they invented the slam dunk?

 

https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-basketball

 

Those are not particularly inspired designs, but I hate #1 the least.

It would be nice if the innovation series actually implemented some innovations in coinage along the way (like doing circulatuon strike coins with a proof sub-element or unusual bi-metallic combinations not yet seen on US coins).

 

How about Connecticut? I like the nod to Samuel Colt but I doubt that makes it on a coin from Connecticut. Nautilus nuclear sub would be my second choice. Which means they'll probably pick the slide rule thingy....

https://www.usmint.gov/news/ccac-meetings/2020-american-innovation-dollar-coin-connecticut