Presidential $1 Coin Program facts for kids
The Presidential $1 Coin Program is a special project by the United States Mint to make dollar coins that feature pictures of past U.S. presidents. This program was started by a law passed by Congress in 2005.
From 2007 to 2011, lots of these presidential dollar coins were made for people to use every day. However, many of them weren't used, so the Mint ended up with a huge pile of extra coins. Because of this, since 2012, new presidential coins have only been made for coin collectors, not for general use.
About the Presidential Coins
The dollar coins show the faces of U.S. presidents. Each president gets their own coin in the order they served. The table below shows details for each coin, including when it was released and how many were made at the Mint locations in Denver and Philadelphia.
| Release number |
President number |
President name |
Release date | Denver Mintage |
Philadelphia Mintage |
Total Mintage | Design | In office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1st | George Washington | February 15, 2007 | 163,680,000 | 176,680,000 | 340,360,000 |  |
1789–1797 |
| 2 | 2nd | John Adams | May 17, 2007 | 112,140,000 | 112,420,000 | 224,560,000 |  |
1797–1801 |
| 3 | 3rd | Thomas Jefferson | August 16, 2007 | 102,810,000 | 100,800,000 | 203,610,000 |  |
1801–1809 |
| 4 | 4th | James Madison | November 15, 2007 | 87,780,000 | 84,560,000 | 172,340,000 |  |
1809–1817 |
| 5 | 5th | James Monroe | February 14, 2008 | 60,230,000 | 64,260,000 | 124,490,000 |  |
1817–1825 |
| 6 | 6th | John Quincy Adams | May 15, 2008 | 57,720,000 | 57,540,000 | 115,260,000 |  |
1825–1829 |
| 7 | 7th | Andrew Jackson | August 14, 2008 | 61,070,000 | 61,180,000 | 122,250,000 |  |
1829–1837 |
| 8 | 8th | Martin Van Buren | November 13, 2008 | 50,960,000 | 51,520,000 | 102,480,000 |  |
1837–1841 |
| 9 | 9th | William Henry Harrison | February 19, 2009 | 55,160,000 | 43,260,000 | 98,420,000 |  |
1841 |
| 10 | 10th | John Tyler | May 21, 2009 | 43,540,000 | 43,540,000 | 87,080,000 |  |
1841–1845 |
| 11 | 11th | James K. Polk | August 20, 2009 | 41,720,000 | 46,620,000 | 88,340,000 |  |
1845–1849 |
| 12 | 12th | Zachary Taylor | November 19, 2009 | 36,680,000 | 41,580,000 | 78,260,000 |  |
1849–1850 |
| 13 | 13th | Millard Fillmore | February 18, 2010 | 36,960,000 | 37,520,000 | 74,480,000 |  |
1850–1853 |
| 14 | 14th | Franklin Pierce | May 20, 2010 | 38,360,000 | 38,220,000 | 76,580,000 |  |
1853–1857 |
| 15 | 15th | James Buchanan | August 19, 2010 | 36,540,000 | 36,820,000 | 73,360,000 |  |
1857–1861 |
| 16 | 16th | Abraham Lincoln | November 18, 2010 | 48,020,000 | 49,000,000 | 97,020,000 |  |
1861–1865 |
| 17 | 17th | Andrew Johnson | February 17, 2011 | 37,100,000 | 35,560,000 | 72,660,000 |  |
1865–1869 |
| 18 | 18th | Ulysses S. Grant | May 19, 2011 | 37,940,000 | 38,080,000 | 76,020,000 |  |
1869–1877 |
| 19 | 19th | Rutherford B. Hayes | August 18, 2011 | 36,820,000 | 37,660,000 | 74,480,000 |  |
1877–1881 |
| 20 | 20th | James A. Garfield | November 17, 2011 | 37,100,000 | 37,100,000 | 74,200,000 |  |
1881 |
| 21 | 21st | Chester A. Arthur | February 5, 2012 | 4,060,000 | 6,020,000 | 10,080,000 |  |
1881–1885 |
| 22 | 22nd | Grover Cleveland | May 25, 2012 | 4,060,000 | 5,460,000 | 9,520,000 |  |
1885–1889 |
| 23 | 23rd | Benjamin Harrison | August 16, 2012 | 4,200,000 | 5,640,001 | 9,840,001 |  |
1889–1893 |
| 24 | 24th | Grover Cleveland | November 15, 2012 | 3,920,000 | 10,680,001 | 14,600,001 |  |
1893–1897 |
| 25 | 25th | William McKinley | February 19, 2013 | 3,365,100 | 4,760,000 | 8,125,100 |  |
1897–1901 |
| 26 | 26th | Theodore Roosevelt | April 11, 2013 | 3,920,000 | 5,310,700 | 9,230,700 |  |
1901–1909 |
| 27 | 27th | William Howard Taft | July 9, 2013 | 3,360,000 | 4,760,000 | 8,120,000 |  |
1909–1913 |
| 28 | 28th | Woodrow Wilson | October 17, 2013 | 3,360,000 | 4,620,000 | 7,980,000 |  |
1913–1921 |
| 29 | 29th | Warren G. Harding | February 6, 2014 | 3,780,000 | 6,160,000 | 9,940,000 |  |
1921–1923 |
| 30 | 30th | Calvin Coolidge | April 10, 2014 | 3,780,000 | 4,480,000 | 8,260,000 |  |
1923–1929 |
| 31 | 31st | Herbert Hoover | June 19, 2014 | 3,780,000 | 4,480,000 | 8,260,000 |  |
1929–1933 |
| 32 | 32nd | Franklin D. Roosevelt | August 28, 2014 | 3,920,000 | 4,760,000 | 8,680,000 |  |
1933–1945 |
| 33 | 33rd | Harry S. Truman | February 5, 2015 | 3,360,000 | 4,900,000 | 8,260,000 |  |
1945–1953 |
| 34 | 34th | Dwight D. Eisenhower | April 13, 2015 | 3,640,000 | 4,900,000 | 8,540,000 |  |
1953–1961 |
| 35 | 35th | John F. Kennedy | June 18, 2015 | 4,200,000 | 6,160,000 | 10,360,000 |  |
1961–1963 |
| 36 | 36th | Lyndon B. Johnson | August 18, 2015 | 3,360,000 | 4,900,000 | 8,260,000 |  |
1963–1969 |
| 37 | 37th | Richard Nixon | February 3, 2016 | N/A | N/A | N/A |  |
1969–1974 |
| 38 | 38th | Gerald Ford | March 8, 2016 | N/A | N/A | N/A |  |
1974–1977 |
| † | 39th | Jimmy Carter | 1977–1981 | |||||
| 39 | 40th | Ronald Reagan | August 2016 | N/A | N/A | N/A |  |
1981–1989 |
Rules for New Coins
The law for these coins says that a president must have passed away at least two years ago to be honored in this series. This is why some presidents, like Jimmy Carter and others who are still living, do not yet have a coin in this program. For presidents like Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, the "N/A" in the mintage columns means their coins were made only for collectors and were not put into general circulation.
Images for kids
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Stack showing edge lettering
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A graph showing mintages of issues minted from 2007 to 2011
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Director of United States Mint Edmund C. Moy and First Lady Laura Bush at the unveiling of Dolley Madison's First Spouse coin on November 19, 2007
See also
In Spanish: Dólares presidenciales para niños
