Whoa!! Hold up just one second... I lovingly assembled a couple of presidential dollar sets in Dansco's that I plan to pass on to grand young-uns at some point. Each POTUS had a Philly, Denver and a proof. When "HW" passed and his dollar was minted all my research told me there would be no proof and that has seriously disturbed by obsessive tendencies.... So you mean there is a proof to be had??
https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-r...-and-chronicles-set-available-on-september-17 According to the mint Code: Program Name Item Item Description Adj. Net Demand Date Sales Report is Valid Special Collectibles 20PA 2020 BUSH COIN & CHRONICLES SET 11521 4/27/2025 I wonder if that's the lowest mintage item of the entire Prez$ set...
I believe it is - all the reverse proofs are relatively scarce. 11,521 2020-S Bush 16,744 2015-P Ike 18,812 2015-P Truman 23,905 2015-P LBJ 47,448 2015-P Reagan 49,051 2015-P JFK
Just going through the presidential coins i have and noticed that a large number have upside down edge lettering . Probably a third of them i have are this way.. Numbers would indicate that they aren't that rare . Are my observations justified? Thanks to all and happy Memorial Day !
Edge lettering is applied as a 2nd process, so the coins are struck, dumped into a tub, dumped into a hopper, marked, dumped into another hopper, then packaged. Thus orientation of the edge lettering is random.
Legislation has been proposed (but not yet voted on, last I checked) that would just automatically authorize a coin for any president that's been dead for at least 2 years and has nor yet been honored in the series. That would include Carter by 12/29/26 (realistically he'd probably get one some time in 2027) and any other president after they've died and 2 years has passed. They kind of set the precedent with George H. W. Bush that they probably intend on continuing this series indefinitely, and my guess is they'll want to keep it going. But no official action has been taken yet. I can't imagine they'd do one for Bush and not Carter, but who knows. P.S. It has annoyed me since 2020 that there is no proof of the Bush dollar (was only made in reverse proof, included in the Coin and Chronicle set) because now that's the only one I don't have in proof. Oh well I guess.
ROTFLMAO... You are thinking of this https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/633/text Which was introduced on February 19. 2025. It was referred to the Senate committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. There has been no action. There are now 3 co-sponsors, the last added Ootober 20, 2025. GovTrack gives it a 1% chance of passage. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s633
Without getting "political" will just observe that things like this usually pass eventually, but often get delayed, and often another version of the bill that does basically the same thing gets passed a year or two later. There wasn't really a lot of pushback on the bill that authorized the George H. W. Bush dollars, but being low priority it took a long time to actually get voted on. I suspect the same thing will eventually happen here. I guess we'll see. The few people that seem motivated to care about such things at all seem to want these to continue indefinitely and there's usually not a lot of interested opposition to such things. It just takes a while to get the ball rolling. Congress doesn't do things fast. Honestly just kind of bothered by that hole in my album between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan and would love to fill that one lol. I like the idea of the presidential dollar set basically being a "yearbook" for presidents.
