Presidential $1 Coin Program facts for kids
The Presidential $1 Coin Program is part of an Act of Congress, Pub.L. 109-145, 119 Stat. 2664, enacted December 22, 2005, which directs the United States Mint to produce $1 coins with portraits of U.S. presidents.
From 2007 to 2011, presidential $1 coins were minted for circulation in large numbers, resulting in a large stockpile of unused $1 coins. Since 2012, new presidential coins have been minted only for collectors.
Coin details
Dollar coins were issued bearing the likenesses of presidents, as follows:
| 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 |
† — The act specifies that a president must have been deceased for no fewer than two years to be honored in the series. (See above.) President Carter and Reagan's successors are currently living and therefore do not qualify.
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
