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Message:: [QUOTE="ewomack, post: 4310135, member: 15588"]Looking at Wikipedia, Rudolph Baer was born in Germany, his family moved to New York in 1938 and thus avoided Nazi Germany, he became a US citizen later and died in New Hampshire in 2014 at the age of 92. President George W. Bush presented him with the National Medal of Technology in 2006 and Manchester, NH created "Baer Square" in his honor, complete with a statue. Many call him the "Father of Video Games" and he also developed the electronic game "Simon." His home video game design was licensed to Magnavox for their 1972 Odyssey home system. I've seen online demonstrations of this early system and it's pretty crude, but it apparently sold decently at the time. The Mint may be trying to reach out to younger audiences with this nod to video games. Given that theory, how video game fans would even hear about this coin, whether they would even know the name Ralph Baer, and assuming that they would care about it at all, are other questions. Sadly, the entire "Innovation" series seems like an extreme case of creating collectibles for the sake of creating collectibles. In and of itself it isn't very innovative. Thankfully, the individual coins don't cost much, but that doesn't really bode well for future interest or value, either. If they were actually circulating dollar coins, that would make them far more interesting. Oh well.[/QUOTE]