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Introduction | Specifications | The Designs | Methods of Manufacture | Schedule | Images

Introduction

The Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005 called not only for the creation of the immensely popular presidential dollar series, where four presidents are honored each year, but also for a complementary first spouse gold coin. The legislation stipulates that, along with each president, his spouse is to be honored on a non-circulating $10 gold piece.

Each year, beginning in 2007, four new dollars will be released by the mint, approximately one every 13 weeks. The coins will be released in the order of presidencies and presidents serving non-consecutive terms will be issued more than one coin, one for each term. Presidents still alive when their turn to be honored has come will not be placed on coins at that time. Although presidents cannot be placed on a coin until their death, first spouses must be put on a coin in the same year as the respective president, thus first spouses may be placed on coins while still living.

Though not released directly with their respective presidential dollars, each first spouse coin will be released in the same year as the dollar, meaning four gold commemoratives will be released each year. However, should a president have had more than one spouse while in office, such as John Tyler, each spouse's coin will be released, resulting in five or more commemoratives that year. Presidents with no spouse while in office will have a depiction of Liberty placed on a $10 gold coin. In addition to the gold coins, bronze medals will be produced for each first spouse by the U.S. Mint.

Specifications

The First Spouse gold coins will be produced from .9999 fine gold, the finest gold used for coinage in the United States, with the following specifications:

Composition: .9999 (24 kt) fine gold

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The Designs

Each First Spouse coin will have a unique obverse and reverse

Obverse

Bust of Spouse Name of Spouse Years served as First Spouse Order of service (ex. 4th First Spouse) "In God We Trust" "Liberty" Date of issue

Reverse

Images emblematic of the First Spouse's life and work "United States of America" "E Pluribus Unum" Weight, denomination, and composition

If a President did not have a spouse while in office, the design of the $10 gold coin will be as follows:

Obverse

Representation of Liberty as seen on a coin circulating during the president's time in office* Years of presidency Order of presidency (ex. 3rd Presidency) "In God We Trust" "Liberty" Date of issue *The First Spouse coin for Chester A. Arthur will feature the bust of of women's suffrage leader Alice Paul, who was born during Arthur's presidency. No years of presidency will be listed.

Reverse

Images representing themes of the presidency* "United States of America" "E Pluribus Unum" Weight, denomination, and composition *The First Spouse coin for Chester A. Arthur will feature images representing the women's suffrage movement

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Methods of Manufacture

Each Presidential Dollar will be struck in two ways:

• Business strikes are lustrous and sold singly.
• Proofs are struck with specially prepared dies and blanks to give the fields (flat portions) deep mirrors, while the devices (raised portions) are frosty, creating a cameo effect.

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Schedule

At least four First Spouse $10 Gold Coins will be released each year, following this schedule:

Year		First Spouse	Years Served
2007	1	Martha Washington	1789-1797
	2	Abigail Adams	1797-1801
	3	Thomas Jefferson's Liberty	1801-1809
	4	Dolley Madison	1809-1817
2008	5	Elizabeth Monroe	1817-1825
	6	Louisa Adams	1825-1829
	7	Andrew Jackson's Liberty	1829-1837
	8	Martin Van Buren's Liberty	1837-1841
2009	9	Anna Harrison	1841
	10A	Letitia Tyler	1841-1842
	10B	Julia Tyler	1844-1845
	11	Sarah Polk	1845-1849
	12	Margaret Taylor	1849-1850
2010	13	Abigail Fillmore	1850-1853
	14	Jane Pierce	1853-1857
	15	James Buchanan's Liberty	1857-1861
	16	Mary Lincoln	1861-1865
2011	17	Eliza Johnson	1865-1869
	18	Julia S. Grant	1869-1877
	19	Lucy Hayes	1877-1881
	20	Lucretia Garfield	1881
2012	21	Alice Paul*	1881-1885
	22	Frances Cleveland	1885-1889
	23	Caroline Harrison	1889-1893
	24	Frances Cleveland	1893-1897
2013	25	Ida McKinley	1897-1901
	26	Edith Roosevelt	1901-1909
	27	Helen Taft	1909-1913
	28A	Ellen Wilson	1913-1914
	28B	Edith Wilson	1915-1921
2014	29	Florence Harding	1921-1923
	30	Grace Coolidge	1923-1929
	31	Lou Hoover	1929-1933
	32	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	1933-1945
2015	33	Elizabeth Truman	1945-1953
	34	Mamie Eisenhower	1953-1961
	35	Jaqueline Kennedy	1961-1963
	36	Lady Bird Johnson	1963-1968
2016	37	Pat Nixon	1969-1974
	38	Elizabeth Ford	1974-1977
	40	Nancy Davis Reagan	1981-1989
The following first spouses will not appear on coins until their respective presidents qualify to be placed on dollars
	39	Rosalynn Smith Carter	1988-1981
	41	Barbara Bush	1989-1993
	42	Hillary Rodham Clinton	1993-2001
	43	Laura Bush	2001-present

 

*Chester A. Arthur was a widower when he assumed the presidency, and Alice Paul, a leader of the suffrage movement, will appear on his corresponding First Spouse gold coin.

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Images

At this time, only the designs for the 2007 First Spouse Gold Coins have been released. Click to enlarge each image.

Martha Washington

Abigail Adams

Thomas Jefferson's Liberty

Dolley Madison

Elizabeth Monroe

Louisa Adams

Jackson's Liberty

Van Buren's Liberty

Images from the U.S. Mint.