Overview
- The Commission of Fine Arts, newly stocked with Trump appointees after an October shake-up, voted without objection to the final design for a commemorative marking the nation’s 250th anniversary.
- The piece will be a very limited, non-circulating 24-karat collector coin, with its size, denomination, mintage and sale price still to be set.
- The approved obverse shows Trump with the inscriptions “Liberty,” 1776–2026 and “In God We Trust,” while the reverse depicts a bald eagle with patriotic legends.
- Commissioners and White House advisers urged a large format, discussing a diameter of up to three inches.
- Treasurer Brandon Beach praised the project and indicated more Trump coins are planned, including a proposed $1 circulating coin that advisory voices say would violate federal law.