American Innovation Dollars
Public Law 115-197, the American Innovation $1 Coin Act, was signed July 20, 2018, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to mint dollar coins honoring significant innovations and pioneering…
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Dollars
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Draped Bust Dollars
When Henry William DeSaussure became Mint Director in July 1795, one of his declared goals was raising the artistic quality of the coinage. He engaged portraitist Gilbert Stuart to prepare a new…
Susan B. Anthony Dollars
By 1977 a Treasury-sponsored study had documented that the Eisenhower dollar was too large and heavy for everyday commerce and recommended a smaller dollar. Congress authorized a new small-diameter…
Flowing Hair Dollars
The Coinage Act of 1792 authorized a national mint and defined the dollar as the monetary standard of the new republic. Engraver Robert Scot, commissioned on November 23, 1793, on Thomas Jefferson's…
Eisenhower Dollars
The Mint had issued no dollar coin since the Peace dollar ended in 1935. Dollar coinage resumed in 1971 because two events in 1969 converged in Congress: the death of President Dwight D. Eisenhower…
Seated Liberty Dollars
When the Seated Liberty dollar entered regular production in 1840, it retained the Gobrecht obverse in a slightly modified form: Liberty seated on a rock, a shield inscribed LIBERTY beside her, 13…
Sacagawea & Native American Dollars
The United States $1 Coin Act of 1997, enacted as part of the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act and signed on December 1, 1997, authorized a new golden dollar to replace the Susan B. Anthony…
Peace Dollars
By late 1921 numismatists who had campaigned since 1918 for a coin commemorating the armistice had persuaded the Treasury Department to act. Rather than producing a half dollar as originally…
Trade Dollars
The Coinage Act of 1873 authorized a new denomination for export, not for domestic use: a silver coin heavier than the standard dollar, carrying its weight and fineness printed directly on the…
Gobrecht Dollars
The silver dollar had been dormant since 1804 and the federal coinage was generally considered undistinguished. Mint Director Robert M. Patterson, who took office in 1835, set out to change both…
Morgan Dollars
The Bland-Allison Act of February 28, 1878, passed over President Hayes's veto, required the Treasury to purchase between two and four million dollars' worth of silver per month and coin it into…
Presidential Dollars
Congress authorized the Presidential $1 Coin Program through Pub. L. 109-145, enacted December 22, 2005. The legislation's sponsors pointed directly to the 50 State Quarters program as justification:…