Presidential Dollar Coins

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The George Washington dollar was the first coin issued as part of the long-running Presidential $1 Coin program — which began in 2007 and ran for consecutive years until 2016. Honoring each of the nation’s deceased presidents in the order that they served in the White House, the Presidential dollars saw 39 different designs over the course. The United States Mint began honoring our Presidents with $1 circulating coins in 2007. The coins are issued in the order in which each President served in office. These golden dollars feature a. The first coin released, the George Washington Presidential Dollar, was issued on February 15, 2007, in honor of Presidents' Day. For the first time since 1933, the edges of the coins were. Millard Fillmore, the 13th U.S. President, was born in a log cabin on January 7, 1800, in Locke (now Summerhill), N.Y. The second of nine children, he worked on his father’s farm as a boy.

Presidential $1 Coin Program

Year of Issue: 2010
Authorizing Legislation: Public Law 109–145

Background

Millard Fillmore, the 13th U.S. President, was born in a log cabin on January 7, 1800, in Locke (now Summerhill), N.Y. The second of nine children, he worked on his father’s farm as a boy and became an indentured apprentice to a cloth maker as a teenager. After studying with a county judge, he began to practice law in 1823. In 1828 Fillmore entered politics, serving as a New York state assemblyman and later in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he chaired the powerful Committee on Ways and Means. While comptroller of New York, he was elected to serve as President Zachary Taylor’s vice president in 1848 as a Whig. Upon Taylor’s death in July 1850, Fillmore became President.

While Fillmore was in office, Congress passed the Compromise of 1850, a package of stop-gap measures which effectively postponed the Civil War for a decade. He also ordered Commodore Matthew C. Perry to lead a naval expedition in 1852 to convince Japan’s shogunate government to open relations with the U.S. This paved the way for the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa, the first between the two countries, thus ending Japanese isolationism.

After two unsuccessful bids for election to the presidency in his own right, he retired to Buffalo, N.Y. In 1862 former President Fillmore was named the first chancellor of the University of Buffalo, now the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in Buffalo on March 8, 1874.

Coinage Legislation under President Millard Fillmore

Act of March 3, 1851, authorized the 3-cent coin, the smallest denomination of silver coin ever produced.
Act of July 3, 1852, established a branch United States Mint facility in San Francisco to process the enormous amount of gold being mined during the California Gold Rush.
Act of Feb. 21, 1853, amended laws concerning the half-dollar, quarter-dollar, dime and half-dime.
Act of March 3, 1853, authorized fees to be charged for “casting silver into disks, bars or ingots.”
Act of March 3, 1853 (a separate act), directed “Mint profits to be paid into the Treasury…”

United States Mint Directors Appointed by President Millard Fillmore

George N. Eckert of Pennsylvania, July 1851 – April 1853

Characteristics

Obverse Inscriptions

MILLARD FILLMORE
13TH PRESIDENT 1850-1853
IN GOD WE TRUST

Reverse Inscriptions

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
$1

Incused (edge) Inscriptions

2010
E PLURIBUS UNUM
mint mark ('P', 'D,' or 'S')

Mint and Mint Mark

Artist Information

Reverse

Don Everhart, Sculptor-Engraver

Collecting the Presidential Dollar Coins

Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez

In 2007, the first Presidential dollar coins were released, honoring former deceased United States presidents in the chronological order that they served the nation. The Presidential dollar series, which was signed into law in 2005, permitted the production of this series, which followed in the wake of the successful 50 States Quarters, a wildly popular series that spanned from 1999 through 2008.

The Presidential dollar coin law stipulates that for a president to be honored during the series, he (or she) must have died at least two years before his (or her) coin was to be issued. The dollar series is slated to conclude in 2016 with the issuance of the Ronald Reagan dollar. Neither immediate predecessor Jimmy Carter nor any of Reagan’s presidential successors are eligible to be honored during the Presidential dollar coin series because they were living as of January 1, 2015.

Reception of the Presidential Dollar Coins

The Presidential dollar coins were originally produced and intended for widespread circulation and were heavily promoted by the U.S. Mint and the numismatic community at-large. However, the Presidential dollars failed to gain much traction in standard commerce channels for much the same reason other recent attempts at circulating dollar coinage have flopped – the dollar bill concurrently circulated.

With more than $1.4 billion Presidential dollars sitting in Federal Reserve vaults as surplus, the U.S. government suspended production of the dollar coin for circulation. However, the U.S. Mint is still producing Presidential dollars for numismatic distribution in coin sets.

A List of Presidential Dollars

What follows is a list of the Presidential dollar coins in the order they were released, the year each coin was minted, and the span of time during which the respective president served:

2007 Presidential Dollars

George Washington 1789-1797
John Adams 1797-1801
Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
James Madison 1809-1817

2008 Presidential Dollars

James Monroe 1817-1825
John Quincy Adams 1825-1829
Andrew Jackson 1829-1837
Martin Van Buren 1837-1841

2009 Presidential Dollars

William Henry Harrison 1841
John Tyler 1841-1845
James K. Polk 1845-1849
Zachary Taylor 1849-1850

2010 Presidential Dollars

Milliard Filmore 1850-1853
Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
James Buchanan 1857-1861
Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

2011 Presidential Dollars

Andrew Jackson 1865-1869
Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877
Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881
James Garfield 1881

2012 Presidential Dollars