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 put up that featured a draft design of the coin that featured Trump’s face on one facet and on the opposite a portrait depicting Trump pumping his fist within the air after his 2024 close to assassination.
President Donald Trump as Trump makes an announcement on pharmaceuticals within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington, September 30, 2025
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The phrases “Struggle, Struggle, Struggle,” which Trump shouted earlier than the Secret Service acquired him off the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, are engraved across the high of the reverse facet of the proposed coin.
A Treasury spokesperson informed ABC Information that extra will probably be shared quickly.
“Regardless of the novel left’s compelled shutdown of our authorities, the details are clear: Beneath 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 ultimate $1 greenback coin design has not but been chosen to commemorate america’ semiquincentennial, this primary draft displays effectively 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 be capable to mint the coin as a consequence 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 12 months beginning in January of 2026, beneath the supervision of the Treasury secretary.
There are a number of provisions that might stop Trump from showing on forex, although it’s not clear if it will 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 residing 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 might seem on U.S. forex and securities (31 USC 5114(b)).’ This is applicable to any residing individual, so by extension any sitting president,” Garrett Wilson, director of coverage evaluation on the Tax Basis, mentioned in an electronic mail.
“There’s additionally a separate provision prohibiting residing 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 a 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.
