Donald Trump Is Putting His Face on Both Sides of a New Coin. U.S. Treasury Reveals 'First Drafts'

The U.S. Treasury has drafted a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump connected some sides.

“No clone news here. These first drafts honoring America’s 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real,” Treasurer Brandon Beach wrote successful a station to X connected Friday, Oct. 3. 

Beach was responding to a tweet featuring sketches of nan coin. The obverse depicted a sketch of Trump's profile. The reverse was based connected a photograph of Trump, 79, opinionated pinch his fist successful nan aerial aft he was struck successful nan receptor by a slug successful a July 2024 assassination attempt.

On nan obverse, "1776 to 2026" is written nether "In God We Trust," referencing nan 250th day of nan U.S.' founding.

The words “fight, fight, fight” were written supra his caput connected nan reverse, which besides adds "United States of America" and "E Pluribus Unum."

“Looking guardant to sharing much soon, erstwhile nan obstructionist shutdown of nan United States authorities is over,” Beach, 64, concluded, referring to nan existent authorities shutdown — the first since Trump’s past presidency.

PEOPLE has reached retired to nan U.S. Treasury Department for comment.

In Trump’s first statesmanlike word from 2017 to 2021, location were 3 shutdowns, including a 35-day closure spanning nan extremity of 2018 into early 2019, nan longest successful U.S. history.

Beach did not grow connected an nonstop accumulation day for nan coins past mentioning nan shutdown. However, if they travel to fruition, they would beryllium nan first to characteristic a surviving and sitting president.

It is forbidden for a coin to beryllium issued pinch "the image of a surviving erstwhile aliases existent President, aliases of immoderate deceased erstwhile President during nan 2-year play pursuing nan day of nan decease of that President," per a law connected rate designs.

The coin could beryllium slated for a 2026 release, per NBC News. Under nan Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, Congress said nan U.S. Treasury Department whitethorn “mint for issuance during nan one-year play opening January 1, 2026, $1 dollar coins pinch designs emblematic of nan U.S. semiquincentennial” for America’s 250th anniversary.

However, that aforesaid rule states, “No caput and shoulders image aliases bust of immoderate person, surviving aliases dead, and nary image of a surviving personification whitethorn beryllium included successful nan creation connected nan reverse of specified coins,” according to CNN.

Additionally, nan outlet points to a imaginable workaround, because Trump’s image is featured connected nan beforehand broadside of nan coin, not nan reverse.

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“While a last $1 dollar coin creation has not yet been selected to commemorate nan United States’ semiquincentennial, this first draught reflects good nan enduring tone of our state and democracy, moreover successful nan look of immense obstacles,” a Treasury spokesperson told CNN, adding that they “look guardant to sharing much soon.”