US Innovation Dollars

Sounds like baseball cards when you put it that way.

I am building a collection of Innovation Dollars, by subscription from the US Mint for the Proofs, and also by subscription on ebay for the BU coins.

It's the same as other non-circulating series that people subscribe to, or buy aftermarket, like ASEs, AGEs, Mint Sets, Proof Sets, Medals, et al.

I was building a collection of proof and reverse proof, buying the sets from the Mint on subscription.

I have been putting them in a Dansco P&D album—Proof and Different Proof.

Then the Mint decided they would no longer be offering the proof.

Now I will have empty P holes, unless I decide to source some business strikes at the coin shows. Mint mark does not matter, cannot see it in the Dansco.

Sounds like a plan!
I didn't buy an album for mine until a few months ago. I've gathered P, D, Pf & RP through 2025. I got a blank CAPS album, so I'll just label three per year instead of four. But bummed that they dropped the Proofs.

Like jbuck, I began with the proof and reverse proof sets. Not an album guy so I didn't go after the uncirculated issues. If I'm still on the right side of the dirt when the series ends in 2032, it will be a nice augment to my collection. The first nine reverse proof coins (issued from 2018 - 2020) had very nice slipcase style elaborate packaging which offered photos and brief narratives; the 2020-S Maryland coin featuring the Hubble Space Telescope is one example:



My thinking was my grandchildren might enjoy going through these snippets of history. In the packaging for the first RevProof release in 2018, one finds the original intent of the series:


In 2021, the Mint transitioned the Rev Proof coins to 4 coin sets packaged in lenses accompanied by a COA. Disappointing to this collector.

I'm waiting on the day that third party has an RB designation.

I started them last year when I got back into coin collecting. Went and got the proof and reverse proof coins as well as the P&D issues. Now I just have the Reverse Proof set on subscription from the Mint and I buy an annual subscription for the P&D issues on ebay, that way when they are released the seller sends them out and I don't have to remember to order them in case they sell out. The space coins are popular and I think the series is going to be a sleeper.

Actually I havew found American Innovaiton dollars in rolls but usually circulated and once in great awhile unc just put into circulation. I find vending machines that take golden dollars have a small chance of getting one or ask for rolls of dollar coins. Bank have them - though loose -- and a few banks have them as rolls. Your best bet is to get them as rolls or, if willing to spend $1,000, get a box to search for them.

The fast but nor most economiual way (well if you account for the time to search for them, then you could say you do save resources) is getting thm straight from the US Mint. I recommend getting a bag or two from each mint. There have been times the issue is really beaten up (D mint coins more often than P mints).