Obverse. Photo © United States Mint
  • 1 Dollar 2022, KM# 774, United States of America (USA), American Innovation $1 Coin Program, Tennessee
  • 1 Dollar 2022, KM# 774, United States of America (USA), American Innovation $1 Coin Program, Tennessee
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 Tennessee recognizes the formation of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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
Engraver: Phebe Hemphill

$1
IN GOD
WE TRUST
PH
JK

Reverse

Depicts a Tennessee farm with newly installed power lines lining the road.

In 1933, Congress created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to construct transmission lines to serve “farms and small villages that are not otherwise supplied with electricity at reasonable rates.” As late as the mid-1930s, nine out of ten rural homes were without electric service.

The TVA built 16 hydroelectric dams in the Tennessee Valley between 1933 and 1944. Through the power of the TVA projects, Tennessee quickly became the nation’s largest public utility supplier.

The TVA organized an experimental farmer-owned rural electric cooperative to serve the area around Tupelo, Mississippi. The cooperative succeeded, and the federal government created a special agency dedicated solely to rural electrification, the Rural Electrification Administration (REA).

The REA gave loans and other help to rural organizations setting up their own power systems. By 1939, the REA had helped to establish 417 rural electric cooperatives across the United States. Most rural electrification is the product of these cooperatives.

Designer: Matt Swaim
Sculptor-Engraver: Joseph Menna

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
MMS JPM
TENNESSEE

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").

2022 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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