US unveils draft design for $1 Trump coin to mark 250th independence celebrations
By Costas Pitas and Andrea Shalal
Washington (Reuters) -Abd Treasury on Friday, President Donald Trump’s 2026, the Declaration of the American Independence Declaration of 250 years to commemorate a $ 1 coin for a coin.
The front of the potential design showed in the Profil with the word “Liberty” and “1776-2026” on Trump, according to the images of the Treasurer Brandon Beach and later by the Treasury.
The other side of the coin has shown that Trump holds a raised punched furred with the words “fighting, fighting, fighting” – a reference to what he said immediately after an assassination attempt last year – and a flag in the background.
Discussion on the legality of design
“The last $ 1 coin design has not yet been chosen to commemorate the half -first year of the US, but this first draft reflects the lasting spirit of our country and democracy, even though it has not yet been chosen to commemorate the half -first year of the United States.” He said.
Beach, X, deputies on a new expenditure bill remained in a dead end, many federal operations suspended the government after the end of the government will be shared more information, he said.
In 2020, the Congress enacted a law that allowed the Treasury Secretary to make $ 1 money mint with “US semi -space design designs” in 2026.
The debate created to mark the US anniversary, rapidly exploded about the proposed coin money about the proposed coin, and the law “a portrait of any living or dead person or a portrait of a person who lives, because he says the portrait of any person, a portrait of any living or dead person”.
The proposed design is a movement that Trump has a wider example of Trump on the opposite side, that he says that he will go beyond the “head and shoulder portrait or bust” ban.
The 1866 law refers to the paper money produced by the engraving and printing office. The coins were printed by the US Mint.
The provision of a previous law on the coins that were first adopted in 1792 and re -modified by the congress forbids the depiction of a living movement or the former president, but this passage is applied to honored 1 dollar coins, each of which is not published for other reasons, such as the 250th anniversary of the country.
In order to mark the 1976 Bicentenial celebrations, the Treasury sponsored a national competition, and Liberty Bell chose a design of $ 1 by an American symbol of independence and a sculpture student with a moon.
On the other side of the medallion, former president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who died in 1969 and made a $ 1 mine in 1971.
When asked if Trump saw the draft money design on Friday, the White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said, “I’m not sure if he’s seeing him, but I’m sure he’il love him.” He said.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Andrea Shalal; Editing by Ross Colvin and Rosalba O’Brien)
