THE US MINT WILL STRIKE A $1 COIN FEATURING PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FACE 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled the designs Wednesday: Trump's full-face image on the front next to "In God We Trust" and a 1776-2026 inscription, marking 250 years of independence. Production starts in Philadelphia with coins available this fall, per the WSJ. Two details worth knowing: The "gold coin" contains no gold or precious metals, just a gold-like finish, per a Treasury spokeswoman. And putting a sitting president on US money is so rare it's contested. The bipartisan Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, whose design review is required under the law enabling new $1 coins for the 250th birthday, has so far refused to consider any design featuring Trump. Its longest-serving member says that if the coin is made "it is illegal" and Congress should act. Administration officials say the coin is legal. The closest precedent: Calvin Coolidge appeared on a coin a century ago for the country's 150th birthday. Some Republicans have separately floated a $250 bill with Trump's portrait, though federal law prohibits living individuals on paper currency.