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2021 P American Innovation New Hampshire - Ralph Baer In-Home Video Game System $1 Coin - Roll of 25 Dollar Coins
2021 P American Innovation New Hampshire - Ralph Baer In-Home Video Game System $1 Coin - Roll of 25 Dollar Coins
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2021 P American Innovation New Hampshire - Ralph Baer In-Home Video Game System $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. - In 1966, Ralph Baer began to investigate how to play games on a
television. He and his team developed the “Brown Box,” a prototype for
the first multi-player, multi-program video game system. This paved the
way for all video game systems that followed. Baer is known today as
"The Father of Video Games." - The obverse design features a dramatic representation of the Statue
of Liberty in profile with the inscriptions “IN GOD WE TRUST” and “$1.” - The reverse (tails) design depicts Ralph Baer’s brown box game
“Handball” on the right side of the coin. The left side features “NEW
HAMPSHIRE” and “PLAYER 1” on an incused background. The inscriptions
“IN-HOME VIDEO GAME SYSTEM” and “RALPH BAER” encircle the coin in a text
that is meant to pay homage to Baer’s Odyssey game. The additional
inscription is "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." The design is also symbolic
of an arcade token. - The first coin of the American Innovations Dollar coin program in 2021.
- You'll receive one Roll of 25 Gem Brilliant Uncirculated American Innovation Dollars - Connecticut.
- P - Mint is Philadelphia Mint.
- Find more in our American Innovations Dollar Category.
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