Annie Jump Cannon
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State: Delaware
Drescription: The 2019 Delaware American Innovation $1 Coin honors astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, featuring her silhouette against a starry night sky to represent her pioneering stellar classification system. Released by the United States Mint, it highlights her work in organizing stars by temperature.
Design Details:
Reverse (Tails): Features a silhouette of Annie Jump Cannon studying the night sky, surrounded by visible stars. Inscriptions include "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "ANNIE JUMP CANNON," "CLASSIFYING THE STARS," and "DELAWARE".
Obverse (Heads): Features a stylized, modern portrait of the Statue of Liberty in profile, with inscriptions "IN GOD WE TRUST" and "$1".
Edge: The coin has a lettered edge, with the year of minting (2019), mint mark (P, D, or S), and stars.
Designer: The reverse was designed by Justin Kunz and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill.
Significance: Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941) was a Delaware-born astronomer who developed the Harvard Classification Scheme, the first serious attempt to organize stars based on their spectral types (O, B, A, F, G, K, M). This system remains in use today.
Drescription: The 2019 Delaware American Innovation $1 Coin honors astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, featuring her silhouette against a starry night sky to represent her pioneering stellar classification system. Released by the United States Mint, it highlights her work in organizing stars by temperature.
Design Details:
Reverse (Tails): Features a silhouette of Annie Jump Cannon studying the night sky, surrounded by visible stars. Inscriptions include "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," "ANNIE JUMP CANNON," "CLASSIFYING THE STARS," and "DELAWARE".
Obverse (Heads): Features a stylized, modern portrait of the Statue of Liberty in profile, with inscriptions "IN GOD WE TRUST" and "$1".
Edge: The coin has a lettered edge, with the year of minting (2019), mint mark (P, D, or S), and stars.
Designer: The reverse was designed by Justin Kunz and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill.
Significance: Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941) was a Delaware-born astronomer who developed the Harvard Classification Scheme, the first serious attempt to organize stars based on their spectral types (O, B, A, F, G, K, M). This system remains in use today.