Which is especially relevant given what happened next. > On December 13, 2011, Vice President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced that

Which is especially relevant given what happened next. > On December 13, 2011, Vice President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced that the minting of Presidential $1 coins for circulation would be suspended.[21] Future entries in the program, beginning with those of Chester A. Arthur, would be issued in reduced quantities, only for collectors. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_dollar_coins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_dollar_coins) The mintage was literally cut from something like 75 million to 10 million.