US Treasury weighs $1 coin featuring Trump for nation’s 250th anniversary
Treasurer Brandon Beach says draft design under review as part of semiquincentennial plans

ISTANBUL
US Treasurer Brandon Beach said Friday the Treasury is considering minting special one-dollar coins featuring President Donald Trump’s image to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Beach reposted on US social media company X a draft design showing Trump’s face on one side and on the other a portrait of him raising his fist after the 2024 near-assassination attempt.
“No fake news here. These first drafts honoring America’s 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real,” he wrote.
“Looking forward to sharing more soon, once the obstructionist shutdown of the United States government is over,” Beach added.
A law Trump signed at the end of his first term -- the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 -- allows the Treasury to issue $1 coins “with designs emblematic of the U.S. semiquincentennial” for one year starting January 2026.
It is unclear if separate legal restrictions barring a living president’s portrait on currency would apply to this commemorative issue. In 1926, Congress carved out an exception for President Calvin Coolidge, who appeared on a special half-dollar coin for the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence -- the only time a sitting president has featured on a coin while in office.
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