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Hubble Space Telescope on Maryland Innovation $1
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will be the design on the Maryland entry for the US Innovation $1 program. It actually appears to be a decent looking design.
collectspace.com/news/news-063020a-hubble-space-telescope-innovation-coin-design.html
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My thoughts:
1) Do we really need another dollar program?
1a) This could have been a 30-year commemorative coin, perhaps.
2) What does Maryland have to do with the Hubble telescope?
3) A reverse proof might have been a good way to highlight the shiny exterior of the telescope.
4) Meteor shower incoming!!
Sorry I can't be more excited about it.
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NASA Goddard Space Center, which is located in MD, is the lead NASA center for the HST.
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I like it.
For a modern coin, not bad
In for a bag.
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I guess it's ok looking.
I like it.
The Hubble is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.... "spittin" distance from where I reside.... Count me in for several reverse proofs.
This is a series of modern coins that has no good reason to exist. Few people even know they exist and even fewer care.
This is sort of true. But they are actually kind of pretty and fun. I mean, you could argue there is no good reason for any proof coin to exist. But people like them.
I buy bags of these dollars just to use as tip money. People really like receiving them.
Any exposure to the public in a positive way of the space program is good. It keeps and hopefully generates new interest for the space program. I like the design.
It's out of this world.
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Same. One of the baristas at my local coffee shop LOVES them. Great coins for tip jars.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Between the proofs and reverse proofs this set is going to be a pain for me to collect. Plus every time these ten year programs come out I start doing the math i’ve how old I will be when it’s over.. 😳
And the pricing makes no sense
It's actually the coin dates that make no sense. They raised the price on January 1st but NJ was released in 2020 not 2019 while Pennsylvania was released in 2019.
That design isn’t too bad actually. I was most upset to see that they chose the Gerber Variable Scale over the USS Nautilus for Connecticut.
I like the design. Though not a fan of most of the modern renditions, this one is reasonably well done and represents a significant achievement in our space program. Some of the pictures produced by the HST have been phenomenal. Cheers, RickO
From the images show here it looks like the “gears” privy mark on the obverse of the coin has been changed from the previous year’s coins. Will be interested to see an actual coin.
Agree. It would be fun to spend these if not for the virus.
Restaurants here are refusing cash now.
Here's what I don't get - the damn thing was designed as are most of NASA's projects at CalTech/JPL. Who care where it is operated from?
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Obviously the people who care include the operators themselves and people promoting their state. I didn't know it was operated there and I'm glad to know that's happening in Maryland.
I collect the reverse proofs. The Statue of Liberty side is outstanding IMO; the other side, of course, varies. My biggest complaint is the lack of a date (Sac $, too) on the obverse face of the die.
??? Don't get Zoins comment about the people that care. Have you an idea how Fed contracts are given out? Not sure how that is who cares most. The fact is the brain power that created it was in California - that is my point.
I live in Maryland, but like to call a spade a spade. Ridiculous theme, but I guess there is not a lot of scientific innovation here. I suppose they could more appropriately use NIH as a theme - at least that make sense.
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With all due respect, there is a LOT of brainpower at NASA Goddard, and I believe the original HST design work was also a Goddard creation too. Even if it wasn't, keeping the HST going for 30 years is a significant technological achievement.
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I think that misses my point entirely. When it literally comes to rocket science, that would be CalTech, and they along with Lockheed-Martin (Sunnyvale) are at last check in California.
Wonderful that mission management has been brought to Goddard, but that is not the INNOVATIVE part.
Maryland DOES have NIH however which is a center of such, and that is why it would be my choice.
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rip arecibo
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/nov/20/us-to-shut-down-famed-huge-arecibo-space-telescope-in-puerto-rico-jungle
I'm disappointed. I was hoping that beer bottle caps would finally get the recognition they deserve and be honored on the Maryland Innovation $1. Those nifty bottle caps that make our lives so much easier and yet go unnoticed by most people were invented in Baltimore in 1892! The round shape of the cap would have been a perfect fit for a coin and the crimped edges could have been incorporated into our first "CRIMPED EDGE DOLLAR!"
I like the series as a whole and am collecting the reverse proofs.
ordered p and d rolls - got double d rolls 😑
Got 2 Philidelpha rolls today...finally (ordered 13 Dec)
Still waiting on 1 Denver roll
Very nice design though
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$9.95 and $11.50 for a $1 dollar coin! What a deal!
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$1.75 for these ...
Coins with space themes have always been one of my things.
I've been waiting for these...because I already love them!!!
My bank will hook me up! Been going to the same large Chase branches in Denver for decades
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"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
at face - even nicer 😎
well, when I ordered a P and D roll of these last year, the mint sent me 2 × D rolls instead, and have been 110% unresponsive as far as a return of the extra D roll and having them send me the P roll I ordered and paid for ... SO I finally just cracked one of the D rolls open to look at and then spend on coffee tips, while I wait [&🤞] for the P rolls to come back available for purchase
haven't looked at any of the unc finish innovation dollars I've ordered as I've just been ordering a P and D roll of each and stowing em away unopened in-box
for a roll of Denver-minted unc small dollars, these had a much better than avg surface appearance, although their edge-lettered collar strikes were dinged and 'chattery' as usual
the only v minor thing to speak of was this 20☆20 I saw on one of the edges; more like 3/5s of a misplaced ☆, but also appeared to have the negative spaces around it incused into the surface, as opposed to the star area itself being incused, as they are around the rest of the edge perimeter
v tough feature to photograph, so apologies for this shoddy camera work, but maybe you can make it out?
anyone find anything interesting on any unc innobucks yet?
The newest coin i have is an 86 Statue of Liberty commem dollar. I doubt that will change
I sure wish they would restore the date to the obverse field of these coins where it SHOULD be as I stated above. This business of putting the date on the edge is a BAD idea.
also not a fan of having to use a magnification tool to read the date + mm on these, @koynekwest
I like all the small dollars with the exception of the Presidential series. I wish they were used in commerce more but that won't happen until they discontinue the dollar bill.
also wish they were circulating - gave my girlfriend a handful of innobucks this evening and she was like, 'are these real money?' 😅 would be great if the general public could be exposed to these in circulating coinage - im doing my part by seeding some of my surplus as tips to industry workers here in the frigid north 🥶