Is this a hoax of is it for real?

Honestly I couldn't care less. I don't do or collect commemorative coins. Likely will just be another bullion release.

 

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Ya gotta die first......

 

Normally but if you’re a sitting president that’s not the case for commemorative coins.

 

Besides, when's the last time you heard anything coming out of DC that's normal?

 

Quite true, but that happened only once.....Sesquicentennial of America with then siting president Coolidge and Washington pictured (displayed?) on the obverse of the coin. I doubt it will happen again.

 

Maybe 60 years?

 

Great! I'll be 119 years old.

 

I would have to invest in a custom metal punch. I already own the sledge hammer.

 

But the thing is... if it happened for the 150th... all the more reason it will happen for the 250th. It's just a number but 250 is a big deal. I'm not commenting on whether or not I want it either way, just pointing out the significance.

 

I am picturing many of them counter stamped in the future. I just see it as more overpriced garbage coming out of the mint.

 

200 was a bigger deal but I don’t recall Gerald Ford putting himself on a coin. Not good timing I guess.

 

Me, after I left town. Lol

 

See Eunice Shriver - 1995 Special Olympics dollar, Carter Glass - Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar, Thomas Kilby - Alabama Centennial half dollar, Calvin Coolidge - United States Sesquicentennial half dollar, Joe T Robinson - Arkansas Centennial half dollar, Nancy Reagan - First Spouse $10 Gold.

 

Thanks for pointing these out, quite a few exceptions to the rule. Congress creates a lot of these and I’m guessing the Trump coin is probably now a done deal.

 

Nancy Reagan - alive when approved, designed and I think when struck but died right before official release.

 

Exceptions can always be made, and they often have been. Calvin Coolidge is the only president so far on a coin while still alive, but Eunice Shreiver and whoever the governor of Alabama was in 1921 were on commemorative coins while still alive too. (Edit: I see someone above caught all the others. Nancy Reagan was technically still alive when her first lady coin was designed, but she died shortly before it was actually released. Point is though, exceptions can be made, and they have been a few times.)

Technically it could be argued that as long as the coin fit the legislation it could be made; the legislation only says something about a "1 dollar coin emblematic of the 250th anniversary" and technically speaking, this fits the bill.

Trying to avoid saying anything "political" about the person proposed to be depicted on this coin, I think it's OK for me to say I find it odd they'd depict both the living, and the current, president on it.

The reverse design looks OK but not a huge fan of the obverse design.

If it does get made I will save at least one though. For the novelty if nothing else.

 

That's the only time so far a living president has been on a coin, but there are many other people that have been depicted on coins while still alive.

 

And trying to continue in the same vein, I find it not surprising that current leaders and appointees would make this choice.

 

In the end, I collect coins largely because they're artifacts of history, and if it's history I was actually around to see, I'll collect that too. It's neither a positive nor a negative comment on the historical subject of the coin for me. So... if this comes to be, as weird as I think it is, I'd keep at least one. Because what are current events and people if not future history?