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The U.S. Mint has put $1 coins featuring President Donald Trump into circulation, making him the first living U.S. president to appear on a circulating coin in a century.
The Mint announced Wednesday that the coins are in circulation and encouraged the public to look for them in their pocket change.
The Treasury Department bureau responsible for producing U.S. coinage also made the coins available for purchase.
The obverse features a portrait of Trump alongside the inscriptions "LIBERTY," "IN GOD WE TRUST" and "1776 ~ 2026." The reverse carries the Presidential Seal, showing an eagle holding an olive branch and a bundle of arrows. A shield bearing the number "250" marks the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.
A banner in the eagle’s beak carries the Latin motto "E PLURIBUS UNUM," meaning "Out of many, one." The reverse also includes "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and "ONE DOLLAR."
The Mint struck 250,000 Trump $1 coins on July 4 at the Philadelphia Mint, each carrying a special July 4th privy mark. The coins were randomly included in bags and rolls sold through the Mint’s online catalog.
The coins are available for purchase at $61 for a 25-coin roll and $154.5 for a 100-coin bag. The release is part of the U.S. Semiquincentennial coin program commemorating 250 years since the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
The only previous instance of a living U.S. president appearing on U.S. coinage came in 1926, when a commemorative silver half dollar marking the country's 150th anniversary featured President Calvin Coolidge alongside George Washington.
The release has drawn criticism over whether the coin complies with federal restrictions on depicting living presidents on U.S. currency.
The debate centers on laws governing presidential and commemorative coins, with critics arguing that the Trump coin pushes against longstanding limits on placing living presidents on U.S. money.
The administration has defended the coin’s legality, pointing to the 2020 law authorizing special $1 coins for the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence and to President Calvin Coolidge’s appearance on a 1926 commemorative half dollar.
The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, a bipartisan panel that advises the Treasury secretary on coin designs, declined to review the proposed Trump $1 coin in February.
The committee had been expected to consider the designs after the Mint published three Trump portrait options in November 2025, but members removed the proposal from the agenda.
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