1 Dollar 2019 Garden of Trustees

1 Dollar from the American Innovation Series, Trustees Garden (Georgia). 2019 year.

The fifth US $ 1 dollar innovation coin of this series representing Georgia honors the Trustee Garden, created by James Oglethorpe in the early 1730s.
General James Edward Oglethorpe was a British soldier, MP, and philanthropist who founded the colony of Georgia. He founded the Trustees Garden in Savannah in 1734, two years after the founding of Georgia Trust, the legal entity that ran the colony from 1732 to 1752.

The garden was about 10 acres east of the area settled at that time. Dedicated to botany and agriculture, it reflected the scientific and commercial aspirations of guardians and their patrons in England. Its growth and decline over the next 20 years reflected the realities of climate, geography and the shortage of people on the ground, as well as the ongoing support from London.

The garden was to be modeled after the botanical gardens and other gardens in Oxford and Chelsea in England. The Savannah Garden was also conceived as an agricultural experimental center for semi-tropical products - mainly silk and wine - that Georgia had to provide to its English sponsors and crown. The leaves of the imported white mulberry trees were supposed to feed the worms needed for sericulture, and the imported vines were supposed to bring noble grapes. Other semi-tropical and Mediterranean products were to be grown, from orange trees and capers to cotton and olives. The purpose of this experiment was not so much the development of the local economy as the use of local labor - settlers and employees - to provide basic food and raw materials for goods to be further processed and consumed in England.

Obverse: In the center, a profile is made of the Statue of Liberty, to the left of which is the official US motto "We believe in God" ("IN GOD WE TRUST"), to the right is the face value of the coin is "1 dollar" ("$ 1"). At the bottom of the obverse are the initials of the designers "JK" and "PH".

Reverse: A hand sowing the seeds of plants growing in the garden: orange, sassafras, grapes, mulberries, flax, peach and olive.

Edge: Smooth with the inscription (* In God We Trust * E Pluribus Unum * year of minting and the mint stamp).

Release Date: 12/19/2019

A new series of coins of 57 pieces.

The United States Mint launches a $ 1 (one dollar) coin program. New multi-year series in honor of American innovations and innovators. A $ 1 coin will be issued for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the five U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands, as well as the 2018 opening coin - the first patent.

Four new one-dollar coins with distinctive reversible designs will be issued in 4 pieces each year between 2019 and 2032 in the manner in which the States ratified the United States Constitution or were admitted to the Union. After issuing coins for each state, coins will be issued for the District of Columbia and territories.