Rolls and bags of 2025 Arkansas Innovation dollars will become available at noon ET from the United States Mint. This coin is the newest release in the U.S. Mint’s American Innovation® $1 Coin Program and is the first of four designs scheduled for this year.
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Marking the 25th issue in the series, the program honors innovations or innovators from each state, along with the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Today’s Arkansas Innovation Dollar honors Raye Montague, an Arkansas native and the pioneering engineer who designed the U.S. Navy’s Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate. She is recognized as the first person to use a computer to create a naval ship design, completing the initial draft for the class in approximately 19 hours.
Design for the Arkansas Innovation Dollar
The reverse (tails side) of the new $1 coin features a portrait of Montague. Her prominent likeness is depicted overlooking an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate. A grid pattern over the sea represents the engineering and drafting techniques she digitized to achieve her groundbreaking design.
Inscriptions on coin’s the reverse include "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "ARKANSAS," and "RAYE MONTAGUE." The design was created by U.S. Mint Artistic Infusion Program artist Elana Hagler and sculpted by Mint medallic artist Eric David Custer.
The obverse (heads side) of all Innovation dollars feature a common design of the Statue of Liberty, created by Artistic Infusion Program artist Justin Kunz and sculpted by Mint medallic artist Phebe Hemphill. Inscriptions read "IN GOD WE TRUST" and "$1."
Edge-incused inscriptions include "E PLURIBUS UNUM," the year "2025," and a mint mark (P or D) indicating the coin’s production facility.
Prices, Ordering and Product Limits
Arkansas Innovation dollars are offered in 25-coin rolls for $36.25 and 100-coin bags for $123.50. Each option contains circulation-quality coins struck at the U.S. Mint’s facilities in Philadelphia or Denver.
These costs reflect a slight increase from earlier issues, which were $34.50 for rolls and $117.50 for bags. The U.S. Mint announced pricing adjustments for clad products in late December.
Customers can order rolls and bags of Arkansas dollars through the Mint’s online store under its American Innovation product section.
Production limits are set at 8,400 rolls of Philadelphia-struck coins and 7,350 rolls of Denver-struck coins, along with 3,150 bags from Philadelphia and 2,950 from Denver. An initial household order limit of 10 per product applies.
American Innovation Dollars for 2025
The U.S. Mint introduced the American Innovation $1 Coin Program in 2018 with an inaugural coin commemorating George Washington’s role in signing the first U.S. Patent. Since its launch, the program has issued four new coins annually.
The four 2025 Innovation dollars will feature:
- Arkansas $1 Coin – Honoring Raye Montague and her computer-designed ship
- Florida $1 Coin – Celebrating the Space Shuttle program
- Michigan $1 Coin – Highlighting Ransom Olds’ assembly line concept
- Texas $1 Coin – Recognizing NASA’s Mission Control at Houston’s Johnson Space Center
The remaining three coins in the 2025 series will be issued later in the year, with all four dollars included in accompanying proof and reverse proof sets.
Lost complete interest in these dollars. Having known the Ike dollar the current price of these is so overpriced with either zero precious metal or numismatic value mintage wise. I started out with reverse proof sets and totally lost interest.
Six days after the fact…. US Mint to formally publish the 2025 USMC Commemorative Coin prices in the Federal Register. “Pricing: 2025 United States Marine Corps 250th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Program and the 2025 Precious Metals Grid
by the United States Mint scheduled for publication on 01/08/2025.”
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-00203.pdf