Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.


“As America commemorates 250 years of independence, the US Mint will begin striking this new $1 gold coin to honor the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symbol of patriotism,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote Wednesday morning. “Featuring President Trump, it celebrates the strength of American values, and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all.”

This move is technically illegal, as 31 U.S. Code § 5112 proclaims that no coin shall “bear the image of a living former or current President,” until at least two years after their death. The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 also holds that living people cannot appear on the back of a coin. The Trump administration is trying to skirt those laws by arguing that the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act allows the president to create memorial coins to celebrate America’s 250th.

A Treasury Department spokesperson told Axios the coin is already being made and will be released this fall. This move is technically illegal, as 31 U.S. Code § 5112 proclaims that no coin shall “bear the image of a living former or current President,” until at least two years after their death. The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 also holds that living people cannot appear on the back of a coin. The Trump administration is trying to skirt those laws by arguing that the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act allows the president to create memorial coins to celebrate America’s 250th.

A Treasury Department spokesperson told Axios the coin is already being made and will be released this fall.

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[–] 49 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's tradition to place a past hero on currency to honor them. This reeks of insecurity and desperation to be remembered as anything other than a pedo.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    He's so desperate.

    Leaders are remembered for the good or bad they do. He objectively hasn't done any good, so he's just going to be remembered as a felon rapist pedophile. That's his legacy and there's nothing he can do to change that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    There's a reason why Google made search shitty without LLMs, it's to control information. Once you have that control, who's to say he didn't ever take a shit or piss, or ever golfed without always hitting a hole in one?

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  • [–] 35 points 3 months ago

    This is some Caligula level shit that has nothing to do with liberty or American values.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Illegal.

    Not that it matters in this unlawful shithole.

    I would destroy every one of these I came across. It's just a dollar. They'll end up becoming a rarity. Like collecting Nazi paraphernalia.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If they delay releasing the coin until he's been dead 2 years, we could see it released in July 2028 if we're very lucky.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Celebrating pedophiles by putting its face on everything. America is fucking gross.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Yeah because America wants this.

    Very honest and nuanced read of the situation, very well done.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    America voted for it.

    It's not like he was hiding his true self until after he was elected. It was all on the table. We even had him as president once already. And America voted for it again.

    This is America.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Compared to a shithead cop who didn’t win a primary. Context matters, of course - especially with statements lacking nuance

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Compared to a

    ... Someone who fucking wasn't trump.

    I cant believe this is a hard concept to get. Ignoring the fact that she had a clear record as a prosecutor - not a cop, if you still need to hate them - and of community leadership, of course, but that seems to have been lost when you were convinced somehow that she wasn't the least-worse option

    OUT

    OF

    TWO.

    Like, my dog can choose between 'cookie' and 'no cookie', but you struggle with his one. Really?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I share your frustration. No fucking shit - anyone here with a brain was shocked. You don’t think we’ven been living the nightmare you’re describing? How fucking dense must you be to think that brow beating someone on your same side could do any good?

    We are in agreement - it’s shocking and horrible that he won, even compared to an astoundingly shitty choice

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, they do

    They vote these lunatics in, repeatedly. This one is there because the people put him there

    It is nuanced; the problem is a lack of responsibility and an unwillingness to take that responsibility on behalf of the US, not a lack of nuance from observers outside.

    Take some fucking responsibility.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    For voting against fascism? Then fine I take full responsibility

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago

    I’m sure you do for your own vote.

    The struggle is the country taking responsibility for its collective selfishness, then expecting individual understanding from those outside which Americans don’t offer themselves.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    shouldn't it be a $13 coin, so it matches his preferred age of victim?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Hilarious how he’s just making a fool of the entire country at this point.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    A Treasury Department spokesperson told Axios the coin is already being made and will be released this fall.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

    But not putting coins inside living people...

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago*

    Now we know where to look when we want to piss on his face. Give new meaning to "golden shower".

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Although it's a victimless crime, it's still alarming that they can just blatantly ignore the law for Trump. What next? Ignoring election laws?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    it’s still alarming that they can just blatantly ignore the law for Trump

    Laws are only worth something if they're enforced. Trump's been Teflon his entire adult life, whether he was doing coke and real estate frauds in the 80s or embezzlement and racketeering in the 90s or child sex trafficking in the 00s or President Crimes in the 10s and 20s.

    Biden's AG looked into Trump for four years and came back with "There's literally nothing we could possibly prosecute him for so we won't even try." And this was a guy who got nailed on 34 counts of whatever it is Alvin Bragg indicted him over (paying off a prostitute with campaign donations, I think?) in a trial that ended with no actual punishment being assigned.

    Like, whatchagonna do? Laws are clearly for little people. Trump (and Musk and Eric Prince and Ron DeSantis and Bill Gates and Robert Richards IV and Prince Andrew and - really - anyone with the correct volume of money and power) can do whatever they damned please. Nobody is going to stop them.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I used to be hopeful that mechanisms for structural reform would prevail, but the wealthy seem hellbent on welding shut all the safety valves and unplugging the control panels to get a surge of power without anyone being able to stop them. Or even know how long before everything goes critical.

    But my centrist, apolitical friends don't seem worried. I'm sure it's fine.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    What next? Ignoring election laws?

    They literally attacked the Capitol

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    But ultimately, the election results were upheld in the end. I'm imagining a scenario where the democrats win and it's simply ignored and MAGA stays in power anyway

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Did you reply to the wrong part of my comment? Yes, I'm aware they're going to fuck with the election, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING THEY'RE GOING TO DO! that doesn't change the fact that the January 6th attack failed and Biden still became president. The election results weren't ignored in the end. I'm agreeing with you that they're going to be ignored in the future, that was my point to begin with

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Not sure I'd quite call it victimless. We use the choice of who or what to commemorate on cash and coins as a way to culturally recognize the collective value we as a society place on people, places, events, etc. By hijacking a new coin, Trump is removing our ability, at least for a time, to celebrate someone or something more meaningful. It's a kind of softer victimization, but it's not harmless.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Well, the only way this coin becomes legal is for a very specific thing to happen.

    Also, man, I sure hope this coin becomes legal...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    I feel like it's a good time to invest in those old penny press machines, just for novelty sake

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Will the coins be made of gold? Or of any useful metals? Asking for our hungry furnace

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    You know what? Fuck it. Just rename everything after him.

    US Dollar = A Trumpie

    USA? Not anymore fucker its the Trump Trump of Trumps.

    Think you live in New York? Nope. We just renamed it New Trump.

    Want to Visit Yellowstone? Dont you mean Trumpstone?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Easy enough to deface.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    The strength of American values and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all*.

    *All does not include anyone who is not a white male

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Me, someday soon:
    Spending an afternoon with a hardened punch and several rolls of these. Or my desktop CNC.

    Modify to “In Pedo we rust” or just grind the same area flat and engrave “Trump rapes kids” into each one?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Its always the Donvict Stare they choose to put on everything. It mirrors that ridiculous architecture from Mussolini's HQ.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    So they stopped making pennies so that we could have any equally if not more than useless coin? Remind me again why that fucker still breathes?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I don't know who that is supposed to be on the front of that coin, but he's about 40 kg too skinny

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    ...it is a federal crime to deface currency..

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    In Canada, they call their one dollar coin a loonie as a tribute to the figure on the coin. We'd have to spell it a bit differently, but the US should do the same thing for the same reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Well Canada has its 1$ Loonie, so America will replace its Sacajaweas (which replaced SusieBs?) in subway change with this loser's face?

    Given he's a two-bit con-man, I woulda thought he'd be on the quarter.

    Brainstorming lightning round: Call it the queso peso. Bucktard? Cheetoken? Pedollar? Chump change?

    Yep. Call them Chumps.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Get a small tool steel stamp made with whatever phrase you would like to stamp everyone you come across.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I was thinking about using an engraving pen to etch PEDO across Trump's face. I would be fine with putting those back out into circulation.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Any coin made of gold that worth a single US dollar is going to be microscopic. Are we making coins for ants? Or will we just spend 8000 per coin "worth 1 dollar" and let trumpers buy them all and melt them back down to gold?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I'm sure it will be gold plated, like the Sacagawea dollar.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    We have to expect its gold painted with Home Depot paint.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Gold plating can be WAY thinner than that. I think modern techniques can be like half a micron or even less, and that's if you use pure real gold.

    But that's beyond the point. Why is he introducing fucking coins, again? And, what are we gonna do with this wasted garbage once he leaves office? These things are out in the world. Immediately cancel the entire program, government capture it all, let collectors have their way, and move on?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I did gold sputtering myself, it can be a few nanometer if needed. But gold paint doesn’t contain any gold, at most some copper particles.

    The reason? Another grift, what else?

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