2019 MS67/PR69 New Jersey AMERICAN INNOVATION COINS

In 2018, the United States Mint introduced the new American Innovation Dollars series, a multi-year series honoring innovation and innovators with $1 coins from each State, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Northern Mariana Islands.  Each is a golden Dollar coin. 4 coins will be issued each year, so the minting schedule for each coin is limited to only about three months.  Each coin is being made in Brilliant Uncirculated condition at the Philadelphia and Denver Mints, and in Proof quality at the San Francisco Mint.

These coins have been graded and certified by ANACS and the coins offered here have been independently graded and certified as nearly perfect Mint State 67 (abbreviated MS67) Proof 69 (abbreviated PR69) condition.

American Innovation $1 Reverse Proof Coin from the State of New Jersey— the third to be released in the series. It features an electric lightbulb, developed by Thomas Edison and his team of researchers, who made light bulbs available to the public. Prior to Edison and his researchers, earlier light bulbs from the 1830s had very short lifespans, used too much energy, or were simply too expensive to produce. By 1879, Edison and his team had managed to produce a bulb with a filament that could last 14.5 hours, and with continued work, they managed to improve to a filament with a lifetime of 1,200 hours. This marked the beginning of commercially manufactured light bulbs, giving people easy control over light in homes and businesses, drastically changing infrastructure, business, and society.

The reverse design features an Edison bulb against an ornate background. The inscriptions are “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” and “NEW JERSEY.”

The obverse design features a dramatic representation of the Statue of Liberty in profile with the inscriptions “IN GOD WE TRUST” and “$1.” The obverse also includes a privy mark of a stylized gear, representing industry and innovation.

The edge-incused inscriptions are “2019,” “S” mint mark, and “E PLURIBUS UNUM.”