Apple $AAPL founder Steve Jobs will be honored on a commemorative $1 coin in 2026, the U.S. Mint announced Wednesday afternoon. The announcement is part of a new $1 American Innovation coin line and can only be bought from the Mint when sales begin.
The Jobs coin will feature an engraved image of Jobs on the back, wearing his signature turtleneck, jeans and sneakers. An inscription, reading "make something wonderful" will surround the image.
"This design presents a young Steve Jobs sitting in front of a quintessentially northern California landscape of oak-covered rolling hills," the Mint wrote. "His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection, show how this environment inspired his vision to transform complex technology into something as intuitive and organic as nature itself."
The Jobs coin is one of four being issued by the mint. Other coins will celebrate Iowa's Dr. Norman Borlaug, who helped to develop resilient wheat crops, which are credited with saving 1 billion people around the world from starvation and malnutrition; the Cray-1 supercomputer; and mobile refrigeration, which made it possible to transport perishable goods across the country.
This series of coins started in 2018. Each state is able to nominate one person or technology that pushed innovation forward. The final coin designs are selected by the Secretary of the Treasury. Previous coins have celebrated George Washington Carver, the space shuttle and the first human lung transplant.
The Steve Jobs coin will be available from the U.S. Mint website starting in 2026, with a cost of $13.25. A set of four, which includes three other coins featuring other innovators/innovations, runs for $27.50. And superfans can buy rolls of 25 coins or bags of 100 coins.
News of the Jobs coin comes weeks after a draft of a commemorative coin featuring Donald Trump emerged. “No fake news here,” US Treasurer Brandon Beach posted on X $TWTR after the images began leaking online. “These first drafts honoring America’s 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real. Looking forward to sharing more soon, once the obstructionist shutdown of the United States government is over.”
That coin could also be issued next year, but there is one significant hurdle. It’s against US law to display the image of a sitting president or living former president. A president may be featured on a coin no sooner than two years following the president’s death, according to the US code governing coin design.