The United States Presidential Dollar Coin Program (2007-2016, 2020) featured portraits of deceased U.S. Presidents on the obverse of the dollar coins.
The coins were minted with an outer layer of manganese brass over a pure copper core, giving them a golden color.
The series initially honored four presidents per year in order of service, starting with George Washington in 2007, and was planned to end with Ronald Reagan in 2016. However, the program resumed in 2020 to issue a coin for George H.W. Bush, who died after the original program concluded.
A list of presidents honored on the Presidential dollar coins, in order of their service:
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- Martin Van Buren
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
- James K. Polk
- Zachary Taylor
- Millard Fillmore
- Franklin Pierce
- James Buchanan
- Abraham Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- James A. Garfield
- Chester A. Arthur
- Grover Cleveland (first term)
- Benjamin Harrison
- Grover Cleveland (second term)
- William McKinley
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren G. Harding
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Ronald Reagan
- George H.W. Bush
- The law authorizing the program stipulated that only deceased presidents who had been out of office for at least two years could be honored.
- Due to the public’s preference for paper money, the U.S. Mint suspended the production of new Presidential $1 Coins for circulation in December 2011. Coins issued from 2012 onwards were primarily intended for collectors.
- The series did not include coins for Jimmy Carter or any subsequent living presidents as of its official end in 2020. However, the program’s parameters allow for the future release of coins honoring presidents who become eligible according to the two-year post-mortem rule, [according to the Littleton Coin Blog].
How many different presidents are on the gold dollar coins?
The program excludes all current and former living Presidents, therefore the list currently stands at 37. The coin features the motto “In God We Trust” in edged lettering which is the first time this has been done on U.S. coin and it also features the year of issue on the Rim.
Which gold $1 coin is worth money?
A few of the most valuable gold dollar coins are: 1849-C Liberty Coronet : $86,250-$690,000. 1852 Liberty Coronet: $168-$312,000. 1853 Liberty Coronet: $173-$264,000.
What is the rarest $1 coin?
The standout is the 2000 one dollar mule, an error coin created when the wrong dies were used, resulting in a heavier rim on the obverse (heads) side. It’s estimated that only around 6,000 of these mule coins were made, which is less than 0.1% of the total coins minted that year.