Presidential Dollar Coins
Most other presidential coins maintain only their face value, although most Presidential $1 Coins that were uncirculated may be worth more than their face value. We are working on updating our database to contain all presidential coins. This is a much easier task now that the mint has finished with this series of coins. Presidential Gold Dollars. 2011 Various Mint Marks Presidential Dollar 2011 P, D Presidential Dollar 8-Coin Set Uncirculated Uncirculated. 3.6 out of 5 stars 2. Get it as soon as Tue, Feb 9. The Presidential $1 Coin Act is intended to create renewed interest in dollar coins, like that seen during the 50 State Quarters program. At least one third of all dollar coins produced are still Sacagawea coins, with the remaining coins making up the four presidential coins annually.
- 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
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Obverse Inscriptions
- MILLARD FILLMORE
- 13TH PRESIDENT 1850-1853
- IN GOD WE TRUST
Reverse Inscriptions
Presidential Dollar Coins George Washington
- 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
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) seeks 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.
Recently Issued Presidential $1 Coins
Ronald Reagan
(1981–1989)
Richard M. Nixon
(1969–1974)
Presidential $1 Coins
In the order they served as president.
- George Washington (1789-1797)
- John Adams (1797-1801)
- Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
- James Madison (1809-1817)
- James Monroe (1817-1825)
- John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
- Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
- Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
- William Henry Harrison (1841)
- John Tyler (1841-1845)
- James K. Polk (1845-1849)
- Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
- Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
- Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
- James Buchanan (1857-1861)
- Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
- Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
- Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
- Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
- James Garfield (1881)
- Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)
- Grover Cleveland (1st term)(1885-1889)
- Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
- Grover Cleveland (2nd term)(1893-1897)
- William McKinley (1897-1901)
- Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
- William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
- Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
- Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
- Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
- Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
- Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
- John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
- Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
- Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
- Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
- George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)