Dressed in his eternal jeans/sneakers/turtleneck combo, it is a young Steve Jobs sitting in a hilly landscape, in a meditative posture, rather than standing with a microphone in his hand, in the middle of a press conference (the famous ones), who is represented. Strongly symbolic of a technology that has become almost as natural as nature itself, the striking image designed by Elana Hagler and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill of the US Mint, is accompanied by the inscriptions "United States of America", "Steve Jobs" and "Make Something Wonderful". The official design of the obverse (front side common to all coins in the series) features the Statue of Liberty.
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This nomination of Steve Jobs was proposed by the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, to represent the state in this program, which provides for four different coins each year. In addition to Steve Jobs for California, the other 2026 nominees are agronomist and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug for Iowa, considered the father of the Green Revolution, the Cray-1 supercomputer for Wisconsin, and mobile refrigeration for Minnesota. If it were still needed, here is a new recognition of Steve Jobs' impact on American and global innovation, alongside major historical inventors and technologies. A notice to traveling collectors of the future (in 2026).
