U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach confirmed in a social media post that the draft coin depicting Trump is real. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent shared Beach's post.
  • thespcicifcoceanEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    There’s only one rule about whose faces can appear on currency in the US: the person has to be dead.

  • GoodmorningsunshineEnglish
    10·
    3 days ago

    Why the fuck not. The US didn’t make it to 250; it’s year 1 of post-US. Might as well.

    • andros_rexEnglish
      25·
      5 days ago

      So is him running for a third term, but his office is filled with “Trump 2028” hats.

    • buddascrayonEnglish
      16·
      5 days ago

      Only after he’s been dead for 2 years or more can his visage be printed on a U.S. coin.

    • XraygogglesEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I’m not quite sure about this one. I think that the current design on the reverse is an issue. But the front doesn’t seem to break any laws.

      I’m assuming they print these under subsection Y of 31 U.S. Code § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins. Which pertains to these 250th anniversary coins.

      The part I see mentioned in this thread frequently applies to a separate subsection (n) for a run of $1 presidential coins that has since ended.

      If you just read subsection Y in a vacuum, they are good to go. This part at the bottom though says that the reverse can’t be a ‘portrait’.

      So this isn’t really slam dunk illegal, but I don’t think that the draft of the coins reverse will make it to print. I would fully expect the front to come out just like that though based on my interpretation.

      (aa)Standards and General Provisions for Circulating Collectible Coins Under Subsections (x), (y), and (z).—

      (1)Prohibition on certain representations.—

      No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin under subsections (x), (y), and (z).

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I don’t know much about the law, but it feels like the ‘Fight fight fight’ side is overtly party political.

    • AeaoEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      If he does… I’ll happily approve of this coin.

    • Aljernon@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      Maybe but they do illegal things all the time and no one is a position to stop them does anything

      • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Okay so we should all just give up then? Act like laws don’t exist? Just let him?

        • Aljernon@lemmy.todayEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

          Obviously not. But pointing out that something is illegal is pointless unless you got a way in mind to make it matter.

  • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    I knew it, Steven Miller has been “Weekend-at-Bernie’s”-ing him for two years and so now he’s eligible to have his face on money

  • LittleBorat3English
    3·
    3 days ago

    It was a good experiment that ended with Trump. Fitting.

  • hcf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    36·
    5 days ago

    This is just bait for people to point out that it’s illegal to commemorate a living president.

    At which point they’ll feign “oopsies” and—surprising absolutely nobody—proceed to roll out a Charlie Kirk coin.

    • echo@lemmy.tfEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      There’s already shitloads of ads out there for privately minted Kuck rounds

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    Surely a 30 cent (or maybe 70 cent or some other not really believable and pretty much useless) coin value would better represent Trump.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
      14·
      4 days ago

      I’d say a 47¢ coin would be perfect. Plays into his ego, impossible to do math with so no one would actually use it, and it’s a few cents short of a normal functioning thing.