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I don't think you're allowed to have living people on a US coin

• crummy 1y ago
  guess they can make exceptions https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treasurer-250-anniversary https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treas...
  • fabioborellini 1y ago
    He is dead inside
  • TowerTall 1y ago
    Not so much an exception but a work around according to the guardian newspaper [1]: [...] the law specifically says “no head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin “created to mark the US anniversary”. The proposed design features a wider illustration of Trump on the reverse side, a move that legal experts said would fall outside the ban on a “head and shoulders portrait or bust”. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/trump-coin-treasury https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/03/trump-coin-t...
  • classified 1y ago
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    • technothrasher 1y ago
      Meh, I'm already nauseated by In God We Trust on our currency anyway.
      • decremental 1y ago
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• butlike 1y ago
  On the US Mint Site I was just looking at the 'Medals', where you CAN have a living person minted onto what they call a medal. Unsure of if it's the same size as a coin, but if it is, you could conceivably try and circulate the medals of living ex-presidents (to great cost to yourself).
  • RobotToaster 1y ago
    The main difference between a medal and a coin is that a coin has a face value issued by a country.
  • marajason629 1y ago
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• sparrish 1y ago
  There is a law but there have been plenty of exceptions including President Calvin Coolidge on a 1926 half-dollar and Alabama Governor Thomas Kilby on a 1921 commemorative coin and Carter Glass on the 1936 Lynchburg Half Dollar.
• satiated_grue 1y ago
  Neil Armstrong (technically his spacesuit, presumably with him inside) was on the 2002 Ohio quarter.