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aanet
That Steve Jobs coin really looks cool. It's the sculpture of him sitting cross-legged, surrounded by hills of Silicon Valley.

I wonder if these coins are available for purchase by the general public? anybody know?

derektank
I love how much Iowa embraces the man who saved a billion lives. He's also one of their two representatives in the National Statuary Hall Collection
dudeinjapan
Steve should be meditating in a walled garden.
ta12653421
are these meant for regular circulation or are these "collection items"?

(Im not from the US, so Im not aware of local specifics)

contrarian1234
weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame

> His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection

i dont associate "reflection" with him. not to disparage him in the slightest, but its just not in the top ten of things i associate with him.

I then made myself laugh by trying to imagine a depiction of Bill Gates in the same pose

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JumpCrisscross
What happened to Trump promising to cancel the penny? It was a genuinely good idea that should have carried on to the nickel and dime. (I’m divided on $1 and $2 coins.)
fwgijcqywqeo
One day they will make a coin featuring Elon Musk with the quote: "Full Self Driving is ready in 3 to 6 month"
cassettelabs
And it's a first time Bill Gates had a thought that he would better be dead by now.
themafia
Why Steve Jobs and not the Apple II? Or even the iPhone?

Alternatively why not Seymour Cray instead of the Cray-1?

Or why not use one side for the inventor and the other side for the invention?

Jobs sitting there in an empty field just throws the whole set for me.

boomboomsubban
It's not a major deal as nobody will use them, but it's strange to have a company on US legal tender. I wonder what percent of the run Cray will buy?
blauditore
Not American myself, and never been there - are there really $1 notes and coins, or am I missing something here?
mettamage
Hmm.. I would’ve preferred Wozniak.

They got the wrong Steve.

surfingdino
I'd love to see Dennis Ritchie commemorated as one of the greatest Americans.
overflyer
Steve Jobs was an absolut malignent narcissist and a copycat. Why not Dennis Ritchie for example? This is ridiculous.
duxup
That is one ugly coin and doesn’t look like Steve Jobs.

It also makes no sense to not include a computer. I get the “California theme but Steve and hills and trees doesn’t jive.

amelius
And on the side it reads "you're holding it wrong".
sskates
Norman Borlaug's story is amazing. He brought modern farming practices to Mexico and created a new strain of high yield disease resistant dwarf wheat at quadrupled wheat production in the country. Did the same in India, Pakistan, and Africa. Saved a billion lives as a result. Solved food as a limited resource for the first time in human history. We've now gotten to transcend food scarcity as a society.

It's super cool that the US Mint is commemorating his work.

api
I’d say these celebrate entrepreneurship more than innovation. Nothing wrong with that, but it does bother me that the true innovators often don’t get credit outside academia and enthusiasts well versed in the history.

Apple II was not the first usable by mere mortals PC. There’s a lot of contenders but one of the earliest came from Georgia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compucolor

Cray was not the first multiprocessor wide vector supercomputer, but it did innovate on it. I’d say Cray broke more fundamental innovation ground than Apple.