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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 345262, member: 66&quot;]Some (including the mint) have interpreted the law to mean that the dollar program ends once the NEXT president is inelegible (in which case Reagan will not get his coin unless Carter has died in time to receive HIS coin.&nbsp; According to the Mint the program is currently scheduled to end with Ford, it does not skip over the ineligible presidents.&nbsp; There is a fairly good chance that Reagan and the first Bush will get their coins though.&nbsp; Both Carter and Bush are 81 years old and would be&nbsp; about 87 by the time the eligibility deadline comes up for their coins.&nbsp; I believe only two ex-Presidents have ever made it to 90 years old, so for them to make it to 87 isn&#039;t real likely.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The law does forbid depicting living Presidents, but does not say anything about first spouses having to have died.&nbsp; Interestingly Bill Clinton would be the ONLY first spouse who would HAVE to be dead before he could appear on a first spouse coin.&nbsp; (Because he would have to be dead so the program could continue past him to get to a Hillary coin.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no general law that forbids the depiction of a living person on a US coin, commemorative or otherwise.&nbsp; There is such a law dealing with stamps, there is such a law dealing with US currency and goverment securities, but NO such law dealing with coins.&nbsp; (The restriction in the dollar coin law&nbsp; only applies to those coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is nothing in the law that specifies how long the coins may be on sale.&nbsp; If they do not sell out they can legally remain on sale indefinitely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roger W Burdette, author of the three Renaissance of American Coinage books has reported that he has found no evidence in the archives that the 1932 quarter was intended to be a commemorative.&nbsp; (On the other hand, in its original proposed version it was supposed to be a commemorative, a commemorative HALF dollar.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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