The fourth and final American Innovation Dollar, honoring Missouri, will be available next week. The dollar coin will be available in bags and rolls on July 18, 2024, with sales starting on the Mint’s site at Noon Eastern, 9:00 AM Pacific. As has been the case with previous American Innovation Dollar releases, the Mint has put in place household purchase limits and production limits for each product.
The American Innovation Dollar coin came about through legislation passed in 2018 and is set to run through 2032. There will be 57 coins released in the program, with the first one released on December 14, 2018. However, that coin was an introductory coin to show the coin off to the public and was never released for circulation. So far, the Mint has released 22 of the planned 57 coins. Collectors can buy the coins directly from the Mint in the form of bags, rolls, and annual Proof and Reverse Proof sets.
You can read about the history of the American Innovation Dollar in this Coin History article.
The Missouri American Innovation Dollar honors George Washington Carver and his developments around agriculture, specifically crop rotation.
George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri. He went on to become the agricultural scientist who helped save the South’s agrarian economy. Following the abolition of slavery, many formerly enslaved people became small-scale farmers, but struggled to thrive on nutrient-depleted land due to single-crop overuse. Dr. Carver knew that his lessons on crop rotation and practical farming methods could help if they could reach farmers outside of his classrooms at Tuskegee University.
In 1906, Dr. Carver designed and built an agricultural school and laboratory on wheels known as the Jessup Wagon. The wagon visited farming communities throughout the South to provide demonstrations and distribute simple but informative pamphlets to those who needed them most. These efforts helped many small farmers improve their yields, earn profits, and save their livelihoods with soil-enriching crops like the peanut, which Dr. Carver used to develop more than 300 products and uses. His research and outreach not only improved the lives of individual American farmers but changed Southern agriculture forever.
As usual with American Innovation Dollar releases, four products will be available for purchase.
- 25-Coin Roll (Philadelphia) – $34.50
- 25-Coin Roll (Denver) – $34.50
- 100-Coin Bag (Philadelphia) – $117.50
- 100-Coin Bag (Denver) – $117.50
The Mint offers a Subscription Program for the American Innovation Dollar products, and readers interested in collecting the coins should consider joining. This assures you of receiving the roll(s) or bag(s) that you wish to collect without having to worry about trying to purchase them on release day.