A "draft" from The Treasury Department of a $1 commemorative coin that it plans to mint adjacent year.
Courtesy: U.S. Treasury Department
The Treasury Department is considering minting a $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump's likeness connected some sides to grant him and commemorate the United States' 250th day adjacent year.
A archetypal draught of that coin, which volition people the semiquincentennial day of the nation's founding, depicts Trump's caput successful illustration connected 1 side, supra the words "IN GOD WE TRUST" and the dates 1776 and 2026.
The different broadside of the coin mirrors a wide viewed photograph taken of Trump successful the moments aft helium survived an assassination attempt astatine a 2024 statesmanlike run rally successful Pennsylvania.
The words "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT," which Trump mouthed to his supporters close aft that attack, look astir the borderline of that broadside of the coin.
"No fake quality here. These archetypal drafts honoring America's 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real," U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach wrote connected X in effect to a station touting sketches of the coin.
"Looking guardant to sharing much soon, erstwhile the obstructionist shutdown of the United States authorities is over," Beach wrote.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reposted Beach's connection from his ain X account.
A Treasury spokesperson told CNBC that a last plan for a $1 coin to commemorate the day has not yet been selected.
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But "this archetypal draught reflects good the enduring tone of our state and democracy, adjacent successful the look of immense obstacles," the spokesperson said, adding, "We look guardant to sharing much soon."
Commemorative coins are ineligible tender, but they are not minted for wide circulation, according to the United States Mint.
It was not instantly wide if the authorities has created immoderate erstwhile commemorative coins oregon different coins depicting a surviving president.
A federal law signed by Trump successful January 2021 — conscionable a week earlier his archetypal word successful bureau ended — allows the Treasury caput to mint $1 coins "with designs emblematic of the United States semiquincentennial" during the twelvemonth of the anniversary.
But that aforesaid law, nether a heading connected standards for circulating collectible coins, states, "No caput and shoulders representation oregon bust of immoderate person, surviving oregon dead, and nary representation of a surviving idiosyncratic whitethorn beryllium included successful the plan connected the reverse of immoderate coin nether subsections (x), (y), and (z)."
Subsection Y refers to the rules astir coins for the 250th anniversary.
That connection appears successful akin forms successful different coin-related laws listed connected the U.S. Mint's website.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco notes, "To debar the quality of a monarchy, it was long-standing contented to lone diagnostic portraits of deceased individuals connected currency and coin."
"That contented became instrumentality with an 1866 Act of Congress," the Fed slope added.
The Treasury Department did not supply a remark successful effect to CNBC's questions astir the legality of the draught coin.
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