October 3, 2025
Treasury releases draft images of proposed Trump $1 commemorative coin on Oct. 3, 2025
Treasury mints commemorative coin featuring sitting president
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On Oct. 3, 2025 the Treasury released draft images of a proposed $1 commemorative coin that shows President Donald Trump on both sides as part of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
The Treasury and U.S. Treasurer called the renderings ''first drafts.'' The design is a proposal under the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 and has not been finalized or minted.
Federal law limits portraits of living people on specified coin designs, and legal experts disagree whether this draft complies with those limits.
The Treasury published draft images on Oct. 3, 2025 of a proposed $1 coin for the 250th anniversary (1776–2026).
The draft obverse shows a side profile labeled with '1776–2026.' The draft reverse shows a raised fist and the words 'FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT.'
The images are draft designs only. The Treasury said a final design has not been selected and the coin has not been minted.
The 2020 Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act authorizes $1 coins for the semiquincentennial but bars a head-and-shoulders portrait or a portrait of a living person on specified coin reverses.
Legal experts and news reports disagree whether the draft violates the statute because the obverse and reverse placement and the artistic treatment may fall outside the law's narrow wording.
Historical precedent is mixed: few commemoratives have depicted living individuals, but exceptions exist (including a 1926 Coolidge commemorative and other limited earlier examples).
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People, bills, and sources
Donald Trump
President
Brandon Beach
U.S. Treasurer
U.S. Department of the Treasury / U.S. Mint
Issuer / Designer process
What You Can Do
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civic action
Request documentation on the design approval timeline
File a FOIA request with the Treasury Department for communications and approvals related to the Oct. 3, 2025 drafts.
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Ask congressional oversight to review process
Contact the House Oversight Committee to request documents and a hearing on whether standard design review procedures were followed.
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Raise ethics question with OGE
Submit a complaint to the Office of Government Ethics asking whether the draft design creates an impermissible benefit to a sitting president.
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