2019 American Innovation Pennsylvania - Polio Vaccine $1 Coin - P and D 2 Coin Set

• The United States Mint American Innovation $1 Coin Program is 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. Pennsylvania is the second
  of four coins to be released this year. The Pennsylvania coin is the second of four to be released this year. It
  features the polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at
  the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1950s. At the time, polio
  was a devastating disease that disproportionately affected children and
  young adults and left many paralyzed and unable to walk.
• The obverse design features a dramatic representation of the Statue
  of Liberty in profile with the inscriptions “IN GOD WE TRUST” and “$1.”
• The Pennsylvania $1 Coin recognizes the creation of a vaccine to prevent
  polio. This design depicts an artist’s conception of the polio virus at
  three different levels of magnification, along with the silhouette of a
  period microscope, representing the extensive research that was
  conducted to develop a cure for polio. The inscriptions are “UNITED
  STATES OF AMERICA,” “POLIO VACCINE,” “1953,” and “PENNSYLVANIA.”
• The third coin of the American Innovations Dollar coin program.
• P - Mint is Philadelphia Mint.
• D - Mint is Denver Mint.
• Find more in our American Innovations Dollar Category