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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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Post by rkomorn »

strogonoff wrote: post #80
rkomorn wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. $1 coins aren't super common but they're not so odd that someone wouldn't believe it's real. There are also collector-oriented coins but pretty much none of those are actually intended for use. Edit: fun fact, there are also $2 bills (but those are way more rare and someone might not believe it's real).

I love Wozniak’s story about $2 bills that are particularly difficult to believe in reality of: https://web.archive.org/web/20111122202554/https://archive.w...

That is way beyond my usual experience with the bills! XD

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

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Post by voidUpdate »

pk-protect-ai wrote: post #79
themafia wrote: post #28

Why Steve Jobs and not the Apple II? Or even the iPhone? Alternatively why not Seymour Cray instead of the Cray-1? Or why not use one side for the inventor and the other side for the invention? Jobs sitting there in an empty field just throws the whole set for me.

Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

I don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin

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

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Post by crummy »

voidUpdate wrote: post #82
pk-protect-ai wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

I don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin

guess they can make exceptions

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treas...

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

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Post by huflungdung »

pk-protect-ai wrote: post #79
themafia wrote: post #28

Why Steve Jobs and not the Apple II? Or even the iPhone? Alternatively why not Seymour Cray instead of the Cray-1? Or why not use one side for the inventor and the other side for the invention? Jobs sitting there in an empty field just throws the whole set for me.

Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

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

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Post by fabioborellini »

crummy wrote: post #83
voidUpdate wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin

guess they can make exceptions https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treas...

He is dead inside

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

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Post by owenversteeg »

rkomorn wrote: post #36
thaumasiotes wrote: post #10

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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.

You remind me of the time (probably around 2002) I used a 20 to pay for some transit card/ticket somewhere and ended up with something like 15 dollar coins in change. I want to say it was a metro card in NYC. Concurrent dismay and delight.

>Concurrent dismay and delight.

That's exactly what I felt at the time too. To me it was always three-quarters delight and one-quarter dismay. A jangling rain of dancing gold coins is a delightful thing. Sure, now I have to go to the bank; but until that time I will walk around as a pirate, pockets full of doubloons.

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

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Post by TowerTall »

crummy wrote: post #83
voidUpdate wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin

guess they can make exceptions https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treas...

Not so much an exception but a work around according to the guardian newspaper [1]:

[...] the law specifically says “no head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin “created to mark the US anniversary”.

The proposed design features a wider illustration of Trump on the reverse side, a move that legal experts said would fall outside the ban on a “head and shoulders portrait or bust”.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/trump-coin-t...

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

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Post by cubefox »

contrarian1234 wrote: post #17

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…

Either of these two Steve Jobs portraits would have been much better:

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D12AQHLC366nJwa1A/art...

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

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Post by classified »

crummy wrote: post #83
voidUpdate wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin

guess they can make exceptions https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treas...

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

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Post by nemo44x »

blauditore wrote: post #39

Not American myself, and never been there - are there really $1 notes and coins, or am I missing something here?

Who wants a big pocket of heavy coins? Can keep in a wallet and just about anywhere is happy to exchange for larger bills if you’ve acquired too many.
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