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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dreamer94, post: 167337, member: 6449&quot;]<b>First Presidential Dollar e-mail from the US Mint</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I signed up some time ago for an e-mail newsletter about the Presidential Dollars. I received the first issue today;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.usmint.gov/images/html_email/Newsletter_ Banner.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>United States Mint Presidential $1 Coin e-Newsletter, Issue 1 — November 2006</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><br /></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b></b><p style="text-align: left"><b>PROFILES</b> </p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>A United States Mint e-Newsletter about the Presidential $1 Coins </b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Issue 1, November 2006</b> </p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>In This Issue: </b></p> <ul style="text-align: left"> <li><a href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#First_Glimpse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#First_Glimpse" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">First Glimpse Coming Soon of Presidential $1 Coin Images</span></u></a></li> <li><a href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#PresidentialCoinProgram" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#PresidentialCoinProgram" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Presidential $1 Coin Program Modeled After 50 State Quarters® Program</span></u></a></li> <li><a href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#FirstSpouse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#FirstSpouse" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">First Spouses To Be Honored Through Collectible Coin Series</span></u></a></li> <li><a href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#FastFacts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#FastFacts" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Fast Facts</span></u></a></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: left"><b>First Glimpse Coming Soon of Presidential $1 Coin Images</b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b></b>For more than 200 years, U.S. presidents have left indelible marks on American history. Soon, these past presidents will make history once again, through the launch of the United States Mint&#039;s <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/$1coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/$1coin" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Presidential $1 Coin Program</span></u></a>, honoring the service of these former leaders with a series of circulating Presidential $1 Coins. </p> <p style="text-align: left">The United States Mint, along with the Federal Reserve, is providing the first glimpse of the first four Presidential $1 Coin designs on November 20, 2006. This unveiling will be followed by the official release of the first Presidential $1 Coin, featuring George Washington, on February 15, 2007 — in time for Presidents Day. New Presidential $1 Coins will be issued quarterly thereafter through at least 2016, in the order in which the presidents served. Additional $1 coins scheduled for circulation in 2007 will feature Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Also, a complete, printable <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm?action=schedule" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm?action=schedule" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">coin release schedule</span></u></a> is available. </p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Presidential $1 Coin Program Modeled After 50 State Quarters® Program</b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b></b>More Americans are likely to use and collect a $1 coin if it has an attractive, educational rotating design, according to a September, 2002, Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report to Congress. The Presidential $1 Coin Program, modeled after the United States Mint&#039;s successful <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/index.cfm?action=50_state_quarters_program" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/index.cfm?action=50_state_quarters_program" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">50 State Quarters® Program</span></u></a>, features a systematically rotating coin design that could greatly interest the American public. </p> <p style="text-align: left">Also, just as the 50 State Quarters Program highlights American history through each state for which a quarter is issued, the Presidential $1 Coin Program will offer a comparable educational component. In early 2007, the United States Mint will offer free, downloadable lesson plans (for grades K-12) about the coins, U.S. Presidents and U.S. history on <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/kids" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/kids" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">www.usmint.gov/kids</span></u></a>. </p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>First Spouses to Be Honored through Collectible Coin Series</b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b></b>In addition to recognizing U.S. presidents on the new $1 coins, the United States Mint will issue a parallel series of collectible gold bullion coins to commemorate the First Spouses. A separate coin will be designed and issued for each of the presidential spouses. The coins will bear the First Spouse&#039;s name and likeness on one side with images reflective of their life and work on the reverse. See <a href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#FastFacts" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mhtml:mid://00001131/#FastFacts" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Fast Fact</span></u></a> below for more information. </p> <p style="text-align: left">These uncirculated and proof one-half ounce 24-karat gold $10 coins will be issued under the same yearly release schedule as the corresponding Presidential $1 Coins, beginning with Martha Washington in 2007. The United States Mint will also strike bronze medals that bear the likenesses of these coins and they will be included in educational collector&#039;s sets as well as sold individually. </p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b>Fast Facts</b></p> <p style="text-align: left"><b></b> <ul> <li>No Presidential $1 Coin may bear the image of a living former or current president.</li> <li>The Presidential $1 Coin Act calls for alternative designs to ensure continuity of the First Spouse Bullion Coin Program through periods in which the president served without a spouse. In such cases, the image on the coin&#039;s obverse must represent the concept of &quot;Liberty&quot; through an image represented on a U.S. coin during that president&#039;s period of service. The reverse should reflect themes of the respective president&#039;s life.</li> <li>Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States, served between September, 1881, and March, 1885. Arthur&#039;s wife, Ellen Lewis Herndon, died before Arthur became president. As Arthur served without a First Spouse, the Presidential $1 Coin Act outlines that his companion First Spouse coin should incorporate the name and likeness of Alice Paul, a leading strategist in the suffragette movement. Paul was instrumental in gaining women the right to vote and was born during Arthur&#039;s term.</li> <li>The Presidential $1 Coin Act also calls for the issuance of Buffalo $50 Gold Bullion and Proof Coins, which bear the original designs by James Earle Fraser, which appear on the 5-cent coin commonly known as the &quot;Buffalo Nickel.&quot;</li> <li>In preparation for the upcoming 2009 bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln&#039;s birth and the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the Lincoln cent, the Presidential $1 Coin Act calls for the issuance of a series of one-cent coins with reverse designs emblematic of four major periods of Lincoln&#039;s life.</li> </ul></p> <p style="text-align: left">Presidential $1 Coins will be available in the United States Mint&#039;s annual coin sets, which can be purchased directly from the United States Mint. 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