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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 6184332, member: 66"]Nope, there is no "over all" law that forbids living persons from appearing on US coins as there is for appearing on the currency.  In the case of the state quarters, President dollars and ATB quarters the authorizing legislation specifically forbid it (on the dollars it required the President to have been dead at least two years before he could appear).  But in the case of the First Spouse coins the legislation DIDN'T forbid it and Nancy Reagan was still alive when her First Spouse coins were struck. (She did die before they were released though.) The difference being that Lincoln was the President, Chase was Secretary of the Treasury, Spinner was a Union General and then Treasury Secretary, William Fessenden was a Senator and then Secretary of the Treasury.  Spencer Clark was a Treasury Department Clerk and the Superintendent of the Natianl Currency Bureau.  In short the others were high government officials and Clark was not. He was and so was Senator Carter Glass.  What I always found interesting is that these two actually got to vote on the bills that put their portraits on the coinage.[/QUOTE]