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Presidential $1 Coin Program

The United States Mint honors our nation’s presidents by issuing $1 coins featuring their images in the order that they served. The program began in 2007 with Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison.

Note: In December 2011, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner directed that the United States Mint suspend minting and issuing circulating Presidential $1 Coins. Regular circulating demand for the coins will be met through the Federal Reserve Bank’s existing inventory of circulating coins minted prior to 2012.

The Presidential $1 Coin Act (Public Law 109-145) sought 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 Presidential $1 Coins feature larger, more dramatic artwork, as well as edge-incused inscriptions of the year of minting or issuance, “E PLURIBUS UNUM,” and the mint mark.

From 2007 to 2016, the Mint issued four Presidential $1 Coins per year, each with a common reverse design featuring a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty. The composition of the Presidential $1 Coins is identical to that of the Sacagawea Golden Dollar and the Native American $1 Coins.

In 2020, as part of Public Law 116-112, the U.S. Mint issued a Presidential $1 Coin for George H. W. Bush.

Presidential $1 Coins

In the order they served as president.

  1. George Washington (1789-1797)
  2. John Adams (1797-1801)
  3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
  4. James Madison (1809-1817)
  5. James Monroe (1817-1825)
  6. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
  7. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
  8. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
  9. William Henry Harrison (1841)
  10. John Tyler (1841-1845)
  11. James K. Polk (1845-1849)
  12. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
  13. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
  14. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
  15. James Buchanan (1857-1861)
  16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
  17. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
  18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
  19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
  20. James Garfield (1881)
  21. Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)
  22. Grover Cleveland (1st term)(1885-1889)
  23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
  24. Grover Cleveland (2nd term)(1893-1897)
  25. William McKinley (1897-1901)
  26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
  27. William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
  28. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
  29. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
  30. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
  31. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
  32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
  33. Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
  34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
  35. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
  36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
  37. Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
  38. Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
  39.  
  40. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
  41. George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)
Content last updated on October 02, 2024