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[QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 68721, member: 636"]
The Treasury Department has announced intentions to produce a commemorative dollar coin bearing President Trump's image for the nation's 250th anniversary in 2026, marking only the second time a sitting president would appear on American currency. Draft designs show Trump's profile obscuring part of the word Liberty on one side while depicting his raised fist with the phrase Fight Fight Fight on the reverse, referencing his response to a 2024 assassination attempt.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the choice by citing legislation allowing designs emblematic of the semiquincentennial, though the 2020 law appears to prohibit portraits of living individuals on coin reverses. The dual-image design also presents technical minting challenges and breaks with numismatic conventions, according to industry experts.

The only previous exception occurred in 1926 when Calvin Coolidge appeared alongside George Washington on a half-dollar commemorating the sesquicentennial. That release proved unpopular, with nearly 860,000 of the one million coins struck being returned and melted down.
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