2019 P American Innovation Pennsylvania - Polio Vaccine $1 Coin - Roll of 25 Dollar Coins

• 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 thatdisproportionately 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.
• You'll receive one Roll of 25 Gem Brilliant Uncirculated American Innovation Dollars - Delaware.
• P - Mint is Philadelphia Mint.
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