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The United States is honoring our Nation’s presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served, beginning with Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison in 2007. The United States Mint will mint and issue four Presidential $1 Coins per year, and each will have a reverse design featuring a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty. The composition of the new Presidential $1 Coins will be identical to that of the Golden Dollar featuring Sacagawea.
The Presidential $1 Coin Act (Public Law 109-145) seeks to revitalize the design of United States coins and return circulating coinage to its position as an object of aesthetic beauty in its own right. Accordingly, the new Presidential $1 coins will feature larger, more dramatic artwork, as well as edge-incused inscriptions of the year of minting or issuance, "E Pluribus Unum," "In God We Trust" and the mint mark.
Removal of Barriers: Obligations of Certain Agencies, Businesses and Transit Systems
In addition to authorizing these new coins, the Presidential $1 Coin Act specifies measures to ensure that an adequate supply of $1 coins is available for commerce and collectors. It requires Federal agencies and instrumentalities (including certain nonappropriated fund instrumentalities), entities that operate any business on Federal property, the United States Postal Service, and certain transit systems to be fully capable of accepting and dispensing $1 coins and to display signs and notices of this capability. Follow this link for details on institutions covered by this provision, as well as additional information on compliance.
Outreach Activities
Public Law 109-145 also requires the Director of the United States Mint to work closely with consumer groups, media outlets, and schools to increase public awareness about the inauguration of the Presidential $1 Coin Program and the availability of the $1 coin. For more information on $1 coin outreach activities and programs, please go to our outreach page.
Other Components of the Act
In addition to its recognition of the Presidents on $1 coins, the United States is honoring the First Spouses through the issuance of uncirculated and proof one-half ounce 24-karat gold $10 coins emblematic of the spouse of each President during that President’s term of service. The United States Mint will issue these coins under the same yearly release schedule as their corresponding Presidential $1 coins. These 24-karat gold coins generally will have an obverse image of the First Spouse and a reverse image symbolic of that particular First Spouse’s life and work. The United States Mint will also strike bronze medals that bear the likenesses of these coins. The law calls for alternative designs to ensure program continuity through periods in which the President served without a spouse. The Act also calls for the production and release of 24-karat American Buffalo Gold Bullion Coins as well as a redesign of the one-cent coin in 2009 to commemorate the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
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The John Adams Dollar Coins can still be purchased through the USmint.gov website in rolls of 25 and bags of 250 coins. Other options include Ebay.com, and private coin dealers. When purchasing these coin on Ebay.com, be sure to purchase from trusted sellers with positive feedback. We personally recommend PCGS & NGC graded coins only. Both PCGS & NGC provide high grading standards and are recognized as being the best.
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Born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735, John Adams was one of the earliest and most vocal advocates for colonial independence. The Harvard-educated lawyer served as a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses.
A skilled diplomat, Adams lived in France and Holland during the Revolution, working to secure crucial international support and recognition of American independence. He served eight years as George Washington’s Vice-President before winning the Presidency in 1797.
Elected by a margin of just three electoral votes (71-68), John Adams was the first President to live in the White House, arriving in Washington on November 1, 1800. On his second evening in its damp, unfinished rooms, he wrote to his wife, "Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."
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| Year | President | Years Served |
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| 2007 | 1 George Washington | 1789-1797 |
| 2 John Adams | 1797-1801 | |
| 3 Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | |
| 4 James Madison | 1809-1817 | |
| 2008 | 5 James Monroe | 1817-1825 |
| 6 John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | |
| 7 Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | |
| 8 Martin Van Buren | 1837-1841 | |
| 2009 | 9 William Henry Harrison | 1841 |
| 10 John Tyler | 1841-1845 | |
| 11 James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | |
| 12 Zachary Taylor | 1849-1850 | |
| 2010 | 13 Millard Fillmore | 1850-1853 |
| 14 Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | |
| 15 James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | |
| 16 Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | |
| 2011 | 17 Andrew Johnson | 1865-1869 |
| 18 Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | |
| 19 Rutherford B. Hayes | 1877-1881 | |
| 20 James A. Garfield | 1881 | |
| 2012 | 21 Chester A. Arthur | 1881-1885 |
| 22 Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889 | |
| 23 Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | |
| 24 Grover Cleveland | 1893-1897 | |
| 2013 | 25 William McKinley | 1897-1901 |
| 26 Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | |
| 27 William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | |
| 28 Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | |
| 2014 | 29 Warren Harding | 1921-1923 |
| 30 Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | |
| 31 Herbert Hoover | 1929-1933 | |
| 32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 1933-1945 | |
| 2015 | 33 Harry S Truman | 1945-1953 |
| 34 Dwight David Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | |
| 35 John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | |
| 36 Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | |
| 2016 | 37 Richard M. Nixon | 1969-1974 |
| 38 Gerald R. Ford | 1974-1977 | |
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