Prez Dollars

I don't know. With the president dollars no one wants to
circulate them. What is to become of them.

As mentioned the law is unclear in its intentions and can be interpreted both ways, once you reach a living president the program ends, or you skip over the living ones until all of the eligible ones have been honored and then it stops at that point. The question is, Which way is the government interpreting it?

I think the answer can be found on the Mint's website in their list of when each of the dollars is going to come out. The list ends at Ford. It used to end at Nixon. If they planed on skipping over the living presidents it would have listed Reagan after Nixon. Then when Ford died his name would have been inserted into the list and Reagan would have been moved back. Since Reagan is NOT on the list I would say the mint does not intend to skip over any living presidents.



Yes the two year requirement was specifically written into the President dollar legislation and only applies to it.



Only if the coin has been in production for less than 25 years. The Kennedy half needed legislation to impliment, but the Roosevelt dime could have been ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury without any legislation.



Not correct other than the President dollar, and the language in the State parks quarter legislation there is no law the forbids the use of a living person on a United States coin. In fact although the President dollar legislation requires thepresident to have been dead for two years, there is no such restriction on the first spouse coins. So it could be possible that we could get Mrs Carter, Mrs Reagan, or mrs Bush on a gold coin while they are still alive.