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On Wednesday, September 18, at 9:30 a.m. (EDT), the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) held a meeting to review and discuss designs for the upcoming 2020 American Innovation $1 coins for Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, and South Carolina in addition to the Congressional Gold Medals for the USS Indianapolis and Chinese American Veterans of World War II. Below are the various proposed designs for the 2020 American Innovation $1 coin for Connecticut. Let us know in the comments which design you would choose!
CT-01 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut. Hover to zoom.
CT-02 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-03 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-04 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-05 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-06 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-06A — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-07 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-07A — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-08 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-09 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-10 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-11 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-12 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-13 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-14 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-14A — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-15 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
CT-16 — 2020 American Innovation $1 Coin – Connecticut
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Born in Connecticut and lived there for forty years. My blog name is the State Motto.
The two designs that stand out for me are the (blue) Onion Dome of the Colt Armory (a Hartford landmark visible from the interstate hwy.) and the U.S.S. Nautilus (the first atomic submarine, built in Groton, Connecticut) breaking through the polar ice cap near a polar bear (facing extinction, an appropriate warning about the future use of atomic bombs).
CT-01 Colt Armory
CT-12 U.S.S. Nautilus (571) and polar bear
I do not like any of the seven Gerber variable scale designs.
As a Nutmegger my vote is CT-08 Gerber Variable Scale, both for the medal design and the incredibly inspiring CT-based story behind it. A youth overcomes all odds, invents revolutionary engineering device (from pajamas!), and it leads him to develop hundreds of patented follow-on technologies that transform a dozen+ industries and are widely credited for saving much US manufacturing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gerber). It also concerns CT’s place in the historic development of digital technologies, which continue to reshape today’s world. Fittingly, the coin design is clean, crisp, contemporary.