1 Dollar American Innovation - Arkansas

Arkansas's entry in the American Innovation dollar series honors the development of the supercomputer, attributed to Seymour Cray's work — though Cray himself was based in Minnesota and Wisconsin, not Arkansas. The connection runs through the University of Arkansas's role in computational research, a distinction the Mint's selection committee found sufficiently compelling over competing nominations.

The series itself was authorized under the American Innovation $1 Coin Act of 2018, with one state released per quarter on a rotating basis through 2032.