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U.S. Mint Begins Selling Trump $1 Coins. Are They Legal?
Although this will be the first currency featuring Trump to enter production, it is not the first that has been proposed by the Treasury. Earlier this year, Bessent unveiled plans for Trump to appear on a commemorative $250 bill, and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts voted to approve a 24-karat gold commemorative coin featuring Trump’s face in March.
Are Trump $1 coins legal?
Democratic lawmakers and coin collectors have questioned the legality of putting a living president’s face on a coin, pointing to federal law that states: “Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities.”
In December 2025, Democratic Sens. Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada introduced a bill seeking to block Trump’s efforts to put his face on the $1 coin. Several senators on the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee penned a letter against the coin as well, pointing to how George Washington “strongly opposed having his image on U.S. coins during his presidency, viewing it as a contradiction to the war for independence from Kings.”
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