U.S. Treasurer Brandon Seaside mentioned Friday that the Treasury is contemplating minting new one-dollar cash for the nation’s 250th anniversary that includes a picture of President Donald Trump.
Seaside reposted an X submit that featured a draft design of the coin that featured Trump’s face on one aspect and on the opposite a portrait depicting Trump pumping his fist within the air after his 2014 close to assassination.
President Donald Trump as Trump makes an announcement on prescribed drugs within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, September 30, 2025
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The phrases “Battle, Battle, Battle,” which Trump shouted earlier than the Secret Service obtained him off the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, are engraved across the prime of the reverse aspect of the proposed coin.
A Treasury spokesperson instructed ABC Information that extra shall be shared quickly.
“Regardless of the novel left’s compelled shutdown of our authorities, the info are clear: Below the historic management of President Donald J. Trump, our nation is getting into its 250th anniversary stronger, extra affluent, and higher than ever earlier than,” the spokesperson mentioned. “Whereas a last $1 greenback coin design has not but been chosen to commemorate america’ semiquincentennial, this primary draft displays nicely the enduring spirit of our nation and democracy, even within the face of immense obstacles. We look ahead to sharing extra quickly.”
The Treasury may have the ability to mint the coin on account of a regulation signed by Trump on the finish of his first time period.
The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 permits the Division to mint $1 greenback cash “with designs emblematic of the U.S. semiquincentennial” for one yr beginning in January of 2026, beneath the supervision of the Treasury secretary.
There are a number of provisions that might forestall Trump from showing on forex, although it’s not clear if it could apply within the case of the commemorative $1 coin.
On this undated file photograph, differing kinds and sizes of U.S. silver greenback cash are proven.
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“There’s the Thayer Modification, handed in 1866 that prohibits dwelling individuals from showing on authorities securities. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing additionally cites a statute, ‘By regulation, solely the portrait of a deceased particular person could seem on U.S. forex and securities (31 USC 5114(b)).’ This is applicable to any dwelling individual, so by extension any sitting president,” Garrett Wilson, director of coverage evaluation on the Tax Basis, mentioned in an e-mail.
“There’s additionally a separate provision prohibiting dwelling former or present Presidents from showing on the $1 coin, although I’m unsure if this straight applies right here or not,” he added.
Wilson famous that Congress might present an exception because it did in 1926, when then-President Calvin Coolidge was featured on a specifically issued half-dollar coin for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
It was the primary time a sitting president was featured on a coin throughout his lifetime, in line with the U.S. Mint .
