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[–] 84 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I thought it was illegal to print money with a living person depicted

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  • [–] [S] 72 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    When have trivial things like “laws” or “morals” ever stopped this administration??

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

    What a shitty coin. If you're going to violate a law at least do it for something with taste. Like:

    • an Obama quarter for illinois with a reaper drone
    • a Clinton coin with a dress
    • a Biden coin with a staircase
    • a bush coin with a shoe
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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Apparently there's only 1 law that says that and the way it's worded applies only to paper money.

    We've been relying on politeness and tradition to not do this. So yeah here we are

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

    $2.44 to buy, worth a $1 at face value. The grift that keeps on grifting. Wonder what it costs to make?

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

    Ohh I don’t doubt it one bit, but he just went on a rant about how we had to get rid of the penny because it cost too much to make…curious which one it is here lol

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    That's pretty normal when you're buying small amounts directly from the mint. You really only do that when you are looking to collect, and intend to hold them in mint condition until the value is increased from rarity years down the line.

    This isn't particularly special other than the fact that the Mint is barred by law from making coins for living presidents. Well, until now of course because of Trump's massively inflated ego, complete lack of self awareness, and ignoring laws.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    They’re actually not barred by law.

    The law prohibits putting a living person on paper currency, and another law prohibits putting a living person on the reverse side of coins. Nothing about the obverse side. It’s only tradition to not put a living person on coins.

    Calvin Coolidge appeared on the Sesquicentennial half dollar while he was president.

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

    After the "national emergency," the yokels will think they're worth thousands.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm disappointed this hasn't turned into a caption competition. There isn't even one edit here in the comments with the text next to his stupid paedo face edited to say something scathing 😟

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

    They both look the same and it kinda makes sense

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    > 1776-2026 written like a birth and death year

    Foreshadowing is a literary device...

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    The U.S. got jealous of Canada and had to also have a coin called a loony.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I kinda want to hear trump try to pronounce 'semiquincentennial'

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It's a beautiful year. So many years this country has. No thanks to Sleepy Joe. Asleep at the wheel... they say. Everybody says it. Sleeping on the button. This is a failed nation but we can—the democrats, they're clamoring to rig the election. Crooked Hillary and her cronies are—so many coins from the mint. I said "make me a coin." And they said it couldn't be done. But I made them make it. Made the Trump coin. Available now at Spencer's Gifts.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Do not accept these as legal tender.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    https://www.axios.com/2026/09/02/trump-coins-real-money-legal-tender-spend-value

    "The coins can be purchased in 25-coin rolls for $61 and 100-coin bags for $154.50"

    With a $1 face value. So, yeah, you can spend them, but you lose $0.55 to $1.44 every time you do!

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

    If ever I get one of these pieces of shit in my pocket change its getting a stache.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago*

    buy em, melt em down, pour them into bullet molds, load them into shells, fire them into nazis, win

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

    I keep forgetting that the USA doesn't even use $1 coins, it's paper usually....

    What a weird "world currency".

    But that's nothing new and I don't want Trump to "fix" it with yet another ego-stroking grift. 🤮

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

    We have plenty of $1 coins though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Oh ok, I didn't know that. Every bit of imagery I've seen, real or fiction, still or moving, points to the $1 bill being the main thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yeah we’ve had dollar coins going back to 1794.

    The famous ones are the Morgan Dollar, Peace Dollar, Susan B Anthony silver dollar, Eisenhower Dollar, and the whole presidential line of gold dollars that went up to Reagan initially, and added HW Bush after he passed.

    Americans just don’t use coins that often so you don’t see them in circulation much. A lot of soda machines give out dollar coins as change though.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    This stupid shit reminds me of his first term with then treasury secretary Mnunchin and his wife holding the giant sheet of money…attention seeking whores.

    Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, wife cause internet sensation posing with sheets of money

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    lol the pics


    And the guy in the background. Wonder what's going through his head. Probably sth like "oh shit, they're not supposed to do that"

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

    Yah that shit was wild when that happened and we thought then that was batshit crazy…lol and behold, welcome to 2026.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    As with the first time around, the only acceptable ownership of such memorabilia is if the original acquirer "retrieved" it directly from the source.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Another grift for the homeschooled morons who fell for the last one. They'll be buying these coins for above face value, thinking they've got some kind of heirloom.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)
    1. Buy them, wait til they are no longer purchasable, then resell them at a massive markup to degen MAGAs.
    2. ???
    3. Profit
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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    If the money didn’t go into Donny’s pocket I would buy a few just to lay on a train track.

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    A monument to the law not applying to Trump and his cronies

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    "Might! Might! Might!".

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

    Weird that it got approved with such a glaring error on the date, 1776 instead of 1946.

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