OPINIONS WANTED: New Trump Dollar Coins - What are your thoughts?

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I have a box of 2026 dimes. Going back to the bank

 

I think it's interesting and I like the idea of dollar coins circulating, but not many people do if you haven't noticed (bank tellers seem to have a special hatred for them). You obviously have to be proud to put yourself on a coin, but I don't really have a huge problem with that, plenty of rulers have done it in the past. Besides coins are supposed to reflect history, right?

I'd like to see one of these in person, mostly because I'm curious about the obverse. What is the highest point? The hair? chin? eye brows? outer ring with incuse lettering? I think it was a nice touch to add 250 to the shield, helps differentiate it a bit from the Kennedy Half Dollar reverse.

 

With how hot politics are these days, I think any president would have ruffled some feathers. I do not think that putting a current president on a coin to commemorate the US would make a top list for marking a special time period. However, if I were to summarize the biggest discussion in America for the past few years, that portrait would probably be a good one. It is kind of like a time capsule. Even still, I think there could have been better designs. Like honoring the lowly turkey for once.