Only “a limited number” are purchased for each trip, Ms. The coins, which are usually slightly larger than a silver dollar, are intended to represent trips taken by the president and vice president, and are collected or traded by the staff members involved in facilitating those trips. Walters said, individual personnel assigned to the White House Communications Agency, a military unit that provides technological support for the president and his staff, used their own private funds to pay for the coins.īut Karen Brazell, the chief of staff for the White House Military Office, which oversees the communications agency, declined to comment on whether other agency resources were used for the coins.Īfter The New York Times inquired about the coins, agency personnel abruptly canceled plans for a coin featuring the president’s signature Trump Tower in Manhattan and his golf course in Bedminster, N.J. Lindsay Walters, a White House deputy press secretary, said those laws didn’t apply to the Mar-a-Lago coins, because “no public funds were used” in their design or creation. Trump’s aides have commissioned multiple versions of an official challenge coin, for which the president himself has reviewed several proposals, according to people familiar with the process.
Another has Pope Francis on one side and the president’s face set against the White House on the other.Īnd Mr. Trump’s private Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, on the front, and the presidential seal, the White House and Air Force One on the back. His presidency has yielded more - and more elaborate - coins that are shinier, flashier and even bigger, setting off a boom for coin manufacturers, counterfeiters and collectors, with one official Trump challenge coin recently fetching $1,000 on eBay.Īmong those produced in recent months by members of a White House military unit is a coin featuring Mr. Moy said in a statement.WASHINGTON - Since Bill Clinton occupied the White House, the commemorative medallions known as challenge coins have been stately symbols of the presidency coveted by the military, law enforcement personnel and a small circle of collectors. I even suspect the tooth fairy will love leaving these beautiful coins under pillows,” Mint Director Edmund C. “Americans will soon be receiving Presidential $1 coins in their change and will find them convenient to use at retailers, car washes and vending machines. The rest will be released through 2016, ending with Gerald R. Modeled on the mint’s popular 50 State Quarters Program, coins depicting each president will be released in the order in which they served, with John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison scheduled to appear later in 2007.
presidents aimed at collectors and intended for use in vending machines and parking meters.
PRESIDENTIAL COINS SERIES
Mint said it launched a $1 coin on Thursday featuring George Washington, the first in a series honoring former U.S. The new George Washington $1 coin in an undated image.
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