Treasury Department Considers Minting $1 Trump Coin

The Treasury Department has been considering drafts of $1 coins that feature Donald Trump‘s image, designed to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence next year.

U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach confirmed an X post featuring the designs.

Beach wrote, “No fake news here. These first drafts honoring America’s 250th Birthday and @POTUS
are real. Looking forward to sharing more soon, once the obstructionist shutdown of the United States government is over.”

The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, signed by Trump, included a provision for a $1 coin “with designs emblematic of the U.S. semiquincentennial.”

The backside of the coins feature an image of Trump following the assassination attempt on his life, with the words “Fight. Fight. Fight.”

Federal law includes a restriction, “No coin issued under this subsection may bear the image of a living former or current President, or of any deceased former President during the 2-year period following the date of the death of that President.” The 2019 law specifies that “no head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of specified coins.”

A Treasury Department spokesperson told Politico, “While a final $1 dollar coin design has not yet been selected to commemorate the United States’ semiquincentennial, this first draft reflects well the enduring spirit of our country and democracy, even in the face of immense obstacles.”

The Treasury minted a dollar coin with the image of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1970s, starting a couple of years after his death. The John F. Kennedy half-dollar started being minted in 1964, a year after his assassination, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt dime was first minted in 1946, a year after his death. The U.S. minted a series of circulating commemorative coins to mark the Bicentennial in 1976, along with a $2 bill featuring Thomas Jefferson.