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Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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That Steve Jobs coin really looks cool. It's the sculpture of him sitting cross-legged, surrounded by hills of Silicon Valley. I wonder if these coins are available for purchase by the general public? anybody know?

You can normally order rolls of them

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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are these meant for regular circulation or are these "collection items"? (Im not from the US, so Im not aware of local specifics)

If they're meant for regular circulation, the program is being led by a buffoon. $1 coins have failed to circulate every time they've been introduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar Dollars are worth a lot less now than they were. If vending machines start charging integer numbers of dollars, maybe dollar coins will catch on.

All the vending machines I've used in the past 5 years were tap to pay.

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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are these meant for regular circulation or are these "collection items"? (Im not from the US, so Im not aware of local specifics)

The answer is an awkward "yes"

They are "designed" for circulation, but only ever get sold as collectors items. Banks won't stock them but you can order rolls or bags of them from the US mint for a little over face value (I ordered a roll of the space shuttle ones to the UK)

I'm not sure what stops the USA using dollar coins in circulation, I assume there's no legal requirement for banks to stock them?

(The fact that's there's currently at least three different sizes of US dollar coin that is legal tender probably doesn't help either)

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame

> His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection

i dont associate "reflection" with him. not to disparage him in the slightest, but its just not in the top ten of things i associate with him.

I then made myself laugh by trying to imagine a depiction of Bill Gates in the same pose

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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are these meant for regular circulation or are these "collection items"? (Im not from the US, so Im not aware of local specifics)

The answer is an awkward "yes" They are "designed" for circulation, but only ever get sold as collectors items. Banks won't stock them but you can order rolls or bags of them from the US mint for a little over face value (I ordered a roll of the space shuttle ones to the UK) I'm not sure what stops the USA using dollar coins in circulation, I assume there's no legal requirement for banks to stock them? (The fact that…

The toll booths in Massachusetts used to accept dollar coins.
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