Obverse. Photo © United States Mint
  • 1 Dollar 2025, United States of America (USA), American Innovation $1 Coin Program, Michigan
  • 1 Dollar 2025, United States of America (USA), American Innovation $1 Coin Program, Michigan
Description

The 56-coin American Innovation $1 Coin Program started in 2018. The program mandates that the Mint will issue four noncirculating dollar coins annually for 14 years.

One coin will be issued for each of the 50 states in the order in which each state ratified the U.S. Constitution or entered the Union. Following the states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories in order, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands all would also present an innovator from their area.

The American Innovation $1 Coin representing Michigan honors Ransom Olds’ patent for the assembly line concept.

Obverse

Depicts the Statue of Liberty in profile with the inscriptions “IN GOD WE TRUST” and “$1.” In 2019, a privy mark was added under "WE TRUST".

The Statue of Liberty, a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York City, in the United States. The Statue is the work of sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who enlisted the assistance of engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower.

The Statue of Liberty was completed in 1884 in France and shipped to the United States in June 1885, having been disassembled into 350 individual pieces that were packed in over 200 crates for the transatlantic voyage. In four months’ time, it was re-assembled in New York Harbor, standing just over 151 feet from the top of the statue’s base to the tip of the torch her right hand holds high above the waters of New York Harbor.

Originally intended as a gift to celebrate the American Centennial in 1876, the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States as a symbol of the friendship forged between the new American government and the government of France during the American Revolutionary War.

Artist: Justin Kunz (JK)
Engraver: Phebe Hemphill (PH)

$1
IN GOD
WE TRUST
PH
JK

Reverse

Depicts a 1930s-era auto worker assembling a vehicle, recognizing Ransom Olds’ original patent for the assembly line concept. Various stages of assembly appear in the background in descending relief. The additional inscription AUTOMOTIVE ASSEMBLY LINE sits below the composition.

Ransom Olds, an early automotive pioneer, revolutionized manufacturing with his 1901 patent for the assembly line concept. This innovation introduced a systematic approach to production, where workers performed specialized tasks as products moved along a conveyor or assembly path. Olds implemented this method at the Olds Motor Works, dramatically increasing efficiency and reducing costs, enabling the mass production of affordable vehicles like the Curved Dash Oldsmobile. While Henry Ford later perfected and popularized the assembly line, Olds’ concept laid the foundation for modern manufacturing, transforming industries worldwide and making goods more accessible to the public.

Artist: John P. McGraw (JPM)
Engraver: Eric David Custer (EC)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
RS JPM
MICHIGAN
AUTO ASSEMBLY LINE

Edge

Inscribed along the edge of the coin is the year of minting, the mint mark, and also the legend "E Pluribus Unum" (Latin for "Out of many, one").

2025 P ★★★ E PLURIBUS UNUM ★★★★★★★★★★

Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Manganese Brass
Weight 8.1 g
Diameter 26.5 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mints
Denver Mint (D)
Philadelphia Mint (P)
San Francisco Mint (S)

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