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Steve Jobs to Be Featured on U.S. Commemorative $1 Coin in 2026

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The United States Mint will soon begin producing a new $1 American Innovation Coin featuring Steve Jobs, and the design for the coin was previewed today.

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The $1 Steve Jobs Coin features a young Steve Jobs in a turtleneck, jeans, and sneakers. The coin is inscribed with the words "make something wonderful." A full description is available on the U.S. Mint website:
This design presents a young Steve Jobs sitting in front of a quintessentially northern California landscape of oak-covered rolling hills. His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection, show how this environment inspired his vision to transform complex technology into something as intuitive and organic as nature itself. Inscriptions are "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and "CALIFORNIA." Additional inscriptions are "STEVE JOBS" and "MAKE SOMETHING WONDERFUL."
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When it launches in 2026, the Steve Jobs coin will be purchasable from the U.S. Mint website. The collectible coins will be available for $13.25, or in a set of four (including three featuring other innovators/innovations) for $27.50. Rolls of 25 coins and bags of 100 coins are also available.

The Steve Jobs coin is part of a multi-year series that started in 2018. Each state is able to nominate an American innovation or pioneering effort for memorialization in a collectible coin.

California Governor Gavin Newsom recommended Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for the coin earlier this year. Newsom said that Jobs' willingness to try new ideas and push the boundaries of what's possible embodied the California spirit.

(Thanks, Elery!)

Article Link: Steve Jobs to Be Featured on U.S. Commemorative $1 Coin in 2026
 
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That's f**king horrible.

The US Mint is making cash grab, charging 13.25 times the face value of a coin, thinking fanboys will buy into the scam. Not that it matters to him either way, but I can't imagine Jobs being happy his image is being used to shill for the US government.
 
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"Make Something Wonderful" instead of "Think Different"...bad call there. It's still a nice gesture and I'll buy at least one for sure. Also, the person on the back looks more like a 70 year old Joan Baez than Steve Jobs.
 
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So it's a $1 legal tender coin, but you can only get it by spending at least $13 with the Mint? They are literally selling money? Seriously?

/edit. I'm not that well versed in the world of coin collecting.... Is this normal?
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The are circulating coins and collectable coins. Collectable coins sell at whatever the going rate for the silver/gold in the coin - usually MUCH MUCH higher than the value stated on the coin. You buy these to collect, not sell.

They DO put a dollar amount on the coins, and they are 'legal' to spend, but why would you? Like why would you spend an 1807 solid silver 50 cent piece today? It's legal tender, you could.... but worth $800+ to a collector.

Trump is planning on coming out with his own $1 collectable coin next year.
 
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Missing a circuit-board. Can’t say i connect with the guru-Jobs that much, but hey - I’m not the market for US mint coins.
 
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