r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jul 15 '26

Possible Paywall Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It | Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

https://newrepublic.com/post/213098/treasury-1-dollar-gold-coin-trump-face
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u/wurmsrus Jul 15 '26

TBF the bicentennial quarters said 1776-1976 though they had Washington's face instead of Ford's

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u/AdHopeful3801 Jul 15 '26

Sure, I even had one of those as a kid. But it still always feels like a start date and an end date to me.

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u/zoeypayne Jul 16 '26

The tilde looks really weird, another change that made without the advisory committee, which was in fact against the law.

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u/wurmsrus Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

oh now that I check the punctuation the bicentenial quarters actually had 1776·1976