The United States Mint on Wednesday previewed the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, which includes a new $1 American Innovation Coin featuring Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs.
The Steve Jobs Coin portrays a young Steve Jobs, dressed in his usual turtleneck, jeans, and sneakers, sitting in front of a northern California landscape of oak-covered rolling hills, caught in a moment of meditation. The coins inscription includes the words “make something wonderful.”
The full description of the coin from 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.”
When it launches in 2026, the coin will be available for purchase from the U.S. Mint website for $13.25 for a single coin, or $27.50 for a set of four coins that will also feature other innovators or innovations. Customers will also be able to purchased rolls of 25 coins and bags of 100 coins.
The $1 American Innovation Coin series launched in 2018, and each of the 50 US states were allowed to nominate an American innovator or innovation to be memorialized on a collectible coin.
In February, California Governor Gavin Newsom nominated Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. At that time, Newsom said that Jobs “encapsulates the unique brand of innovation that California runs on.”
The Steve Jobs coin was designed by Elana Hagler, while the sculptor was Phebe Hemphill.
