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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday. (Aaron Schwartz for The Washington Post\/Pool\/FTWP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The U.S. Mint will soon begin producing a new $1 gold-hued coin with President Donald Trump\u2019s face on it to commemorate America\u2019s 250th birthday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced this week.<\/p>

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The coin\u2019s face features Trump alongside the phrase \u201cIn God We Trust.\u201d It is encircled with the phrases \u201cLiberty\u201d and \u201c1776-2026.\u201d The flip-side of the coin shows an eagle holding arrows in one talon and olive branches in the other.<\/p>\n

Since the start of his second term, Trump and his allies have pushed to reissue federally created currency and documents to feature the president\u2019s name and likeness. Examples include a commemorative passport<\/a> with Trump\u2019s image inside its pages and the addition of his signature<\/a> on newly printed $100 bills. There are also proposals to feature the president\u2019s image on 24-karat gold coins<\/a> and commemorative $250 bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bessent said in a post on X that the coin \u201ccelebrates the strength of American values, and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier drafts proposals of the $1 coin showed Trump standing with a clenched right fist in front of an American flag and the words \u201cFight Fight Fight\u201d \u2014 a reference to the 2024 assassination attempt at his campaign rally<\/a> in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

When plans for the $1 coin were revealed last year, concerns emerged<\/a> over whether the proposal to include a living president\u2019s image on U.S. currency could violate the law.<\/p>\n

Under a law passed in 2020<\/a>, the Treasury Department can mint $1 coins during 2026 to mark the 250th anniversary \u201cwith designs emblematic of the U.S. semiquincentennial.\u201d However, according to U.S. code<\/a>, \u201c[o]nly the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities\u201d \u2014 a law that sprang from a Colonial-era tradition against putting current presidents on American coins themselves from the British monarchy<\/a>.<\/p>

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In addition, the 2020 law states that \u201c[n]o 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 any coin\u201d produced for the semiquincentennial, which could be violated by having Trump\u2019s image on both sides of the coin.<\/p>\n

Bessent argued that the $1 coin design was legal, telling<\/a> Fox News this week that although he is otherwise barred from featuring a living person\u2019s image on U.S. currency, \u201cduring the 150th, there was a Calvin Coolidge coin, so we can put living presidents\u2019 images on a coin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The design for the coin also was not what the Commission of Fine Arts, which is composed entirely of Trump appointees, recommended when members met in January. The obverse design recommended<\/a> by the commission featured Trump\u2019s face in profile, while the final design shows the president with his eyes forward. The treasury secretary has the final say on the design.<\/p>\n

Megan Sullivan, the acting chief of the U.S. Mint\u2019s office of design management, said during the January commission meeting that \u201cthe legal research has been done both at the Mint and up into Treasury, and they have determined that [the proposed coin featuring Trump\u2019s image] does not violate any laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan described the coins as being \u201ca little bit larger than a quarter\u201d and being composed of \u201cmanganese brass\u201d and displaying as \u201cgolden in color.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $1 coins are distinct from the 24-karat coins created by the Treasury Department that typically sell for thousands of dollars. Senate Democrats, in June, urged<\/a> the Trump administration to halt production of that solid gold coin, citing concerns that some of the U.S. Mint\u2019s gold could have links to foreign cartels.<\/p>

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Amy B Wang contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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