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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CentDime, post: 343717, member: 7297&quot;]You guys bring up interesting points. This is what I found:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Since the new Presidential dollar coins are intended to circulate, they will bear mintmarks from the Philadelphia and Denver mints. A proof version will be made available to collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not to be included, unless they are dead at least two years when their turn comes, will be former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush (Bush 41), Bill Clinton and incumbent President George Bush (Bush 43) and his eventual successors. That means the set will include 120 coins at a minimum. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first spouse gold program has no such limitation. For example, if the Lyndon B. Johnson were currently in production (he died in 1973), Lady Bird Johnson (still alive having just celebrated her 93rd birthday on Dec. 22) would go on the first spouse coin. So would Nancy Reagan. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is no legal prohibition against depicting live Presidents, or other living individuals, on American coinage. Calvin Coolidge appeared on the sesquicentennial half dollar of 1926. Eunice Shriver appeared on the 1995 Special Olympics commemorative silver dollar. Some American presidents have also appeared on foreign coinage during their lifetimes. &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So it sounds like a First Spouse coin could have a living First lady on it according to this as long as the President is dead for two years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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