2009 Presidential Dollar Designs

US Mint | Wednesday, October 8, 2008 | Unknown

[RayBob]

2009 Presidential Dollar Designs Released

The United States Mint has released the designs for the upcoming 2009 Presidential Dollars. Next year's coins will honor the Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, and Zachary Taylor.

Next year the motto "In God We Trust" will be moved to more prominent placement on the obverse of the coin. The date, mint mark, and "E Pluribus Unum" will be featured on the incuse edge lettering of the coins.

The reverse design featuring the Statue of Liberty that has been used in prior years will remain unchanged and continue to be used.

The following are the designs released by the US Mint.

2009 William Henry Harrison Presidential Dollar 9th President Designed and Sculpted by Joseph Menna

2009 John Tyler Presidential Dollar 10th President Designed and Sculpted by Phebe Hemphill

2009 James K. Polk Presidential Dollar 11th President Designed by Susan Gamble and Sculpted by Charles Vickers

2009 Zachary Taylor Presidential Dollar 12th President Designed and Sculpted by Don Everhart

[RayBob]

Just posting for the resident numistmatists.

[nmh]

For a moment there I thought you were going to post about the Obomination being on our currency.

WHEW!
With any luck I'll be six foot under when that happens.

[Non-Sequitur]

Considering the administrations of these four presidents totaled less than 10 years they should release five or six presidents next year.

[Uriah_lost]

I misread the title... I saw “resigns”. Lol.

[ssaftler]

Thanks. I see “In God We Trust” has moved off the edge.

[KarlInOhio]

2009 William Henry Harrison Presidential Dollar 9th President Designed and Sculpted by Joseph Menna

He only deserves a dime at most.

[buffyt]

Naw, Obama’s ears won’t fit!

[nickcarraway]

Where’s Obama?

[mewzilla]

Next year the motto "In God We Trust" will be moved to more prominent placement on the obverse of the coin.

Good.

[FrankR]

"Where’s Obama? "

I propose a new rule...to get your moniker on a coin, you have to be a natural born citizen, and have proof.

[nmh]

I don’t know how I am going to get through the time he serves. He makes me PHYSICALLY ILL.

[nickcarraway]

Pshaw...he’s already the most popular president in U.S. history.

[techcor]

I was going to say halo but yours was just as good.

[TheWasteLand]

"I died in 30 days!"

[Pelagius of Asturias]

I want to know why Obama’s picture is not going on a coin.

I heard a rumor that it would be on the new issue of food stamps.

[Verginius Rufus]

Harrison gave the longest inaugural address ever, 1 hour 40 minutes long. It would have been even longer but Daniel Webster, the incoming Secretary of State, edited it. I think he is said to have remarked that he had just killed off 6 Roman proconsuls.

[al baby]

smoking today’s news away

[GreenAccord]

OK, separated at birth (John Tyler and Brent Spiner, Data from Star Trek Next Generation fame)?

[citizen]

Good resemblance there!

[Hessian]

By my math, we’ll see Ronald Reagan on the dollar coin in 2016. I vote they make it permanent at that point.

If Carter is still alive, will they skip him?

[curmudgeonII]

Anybody else find the presidential portraits on these coins as ugly as I do?

[steve-b]

If Carter is still alive, will they skip him?

The listed release schedule only goes up to Gerald Ford. That might mean that the issues will be put on hold if Carter is still alive.

[MilspecRob]

Well, no not really. I don't think the presidents pictured would find them ugly.

[ssaftler]

"I died in 30 days!"

Given today's news, will nObama beat WHH record?

[Oatka]

I see “In God We Trust” has moved off the edge.

There was a big hue and cry aka conspiracy because the first coins had the motto on the rim. Hell, it was nothing more than a nod to our early history when our silver halves and dollars were so marked. They did that to deter "shavers" from slicing off slivers of the precious metal. They later went to the ribbing we see today although it no longer has any meaning due to the "junk metal" composition.

Then again, if the govt's attempt to forestall a deflationary Depression results in hyper-inflation, even cupro-nickle coins could become "precious metals".

[fieldmarshaldj]

Lovely. Jimmuh the racist, anti-Semite, half-witted terrorist lover has to die before Ronald Reagan gets his coin.

[Impy]

Homer: [on the phone, disguising his voice]
There’s a $10,000 bill in it for you.
Barney: Oh yeah? Which president’s on it?
Homer: Uh... All of them. They’re having a party. Jimmy Carter’s
passed out on the couch.

[Greg123456]

The dollar coins are fun to leave as tips at restaurants. I used to get them as change when I bought stamps through the machines at the post office, but alas, they removed the machines. I just don’t feel right asking for the coins at the bank. They’d probably assume I’m some sort of money geek.

[RayBob]

"They’d probably assume I’m some sort of money geek."

Hey, I resemble that remark! I like to use them at fast food joints and stores and watch the idiot teenage clerks have to call the manager because they don't know what it is or where to put them in the register drawer.