Dead Presidents, now in gold!

[dougo]

Following the success of the State Quarters program, the US Mint will be releasing Presidential $1 coins starting this year with the first four US Presidents (Washington through Madison) and four per year until... I guess until they catch up with the current President? Or maybe there's some rule about only dead ones, or only five years out of office like the Baseball Hall of Fame. Anyway, I'm not looking forward to having to carry Reagan coins, let alone GWB. But Chester A. "Muttonchops" Arthur will be fun. And Grover Cleveland gets two different coins, apparently!

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[dougo.livejournal.com]

"In addition to authorizing these new coins, the Presidential $1 Coin Act specifies measures to ensure that an adequate supply of $1 coins is available for commerce and collectors. It requires Federal agencies and instrumentalities (including certain nonappropriated fund instrumentalities), entities that operate any business on Federal property, the United States Postal Service, and certain transit systems to be fully capable of accepting and dispensing $1 coins and to display signs and notices of this capability."