They’ve been announced! The U.S. Mint has released two of the three final designs for the Presidential Dollar Series. After meticulous review of the many Richard M. Nixon and the Gerald R. Ford coin designs by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) and the United States Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), the Treasury Secretary made the final decision.
Here is a sneak peak at these special American gold coins:
Nixon
The Nixon $1 is a profile engraving of President Nixon with the inscription RICHARD M. NIXON, IN GOD WE TRUST, 37th PRESIDENT, and 1969-1974 – the years he served in office. The coin was designed and sculpted by U.S. Mint sculptor and engraver Don Everhart.
Ford
The Gerald $1 is an image of President Ford with the inscription GERALD R. FORD, IN GOD WE TRUST, 38th PRESIDENT, and 1974-1977. This coin design was created and sculpted by Mint’s sculptor and engraver Phebe Hemphill.
The reverse side of the Presidential Coin series is an image of the Statue of Liberty that was designed by Nixon’s $1 designer and engraver, Don Everhart. Upon the edge inscription is the year of issuance, the production facility, the facility’s mintmark, and E PLURIBUS UNUM.
The Presidential Dollar Coin Series started back in 2007 and is coming into its final year featuring Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. As the series is limited by law to only feature deceased presidents, these coins are the final three coins created for the series. The third and final design of President Ronald Reagan will be announced on February 6, 2016, which would have been President Reagan’s 105th birthday.
These gold Presidential $1s are a valuable addition to any collection. To learn more about numismatic coin investing, visit our online blog and knowledge center.
You know, it’s just not right. There is NO WAY on God’s green earth that Richard Nixon–the president that killed the gold standard in America–should be immortalized on a gold coin! I find myself somewhat disgusted by it; more so than I probably should be.
Truth be told it was Johnson that fatally wounded the gold standard. Nixon had no choice. I fault Nixon for the disastrous petro-dollar.Post Kennedy presidents will be known as the Ponzi-presidential era.
I will get the Gerald Ford coins first. He had some good values & morals. Now Nixon….. I guess for reasons not said on here, I will get a roll of them to hand out
to my Republican Friends. I have no Dem friends.
If I buy the Nixon coin, will I find the lock on my safe taped over?
I would surely vote for Nixon over all running for president in the up coming election …. Just saying .
Eww
I need a Nixon Coin I absolutely, positively neeeeed a Nixon coin.
I guess Ford’s term went back in time! Ahhh….I see, it’s a subtle hint from the mint that we’re trying to forget those years!
http://www.federalreservehistory.org/Events/DetailView/33
Nixon Ends Convertibility of US Dollars to Gold and Announces Wage/Price Controls
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August 1971
by Sandra Kollen Ghizoni, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
President Richard Nixon’s actions in 1971 to end dollar convertibility to gold and implement wage/price controls were intended to address the international dilemma of a looming gold run and the domestic problem of inflation. The new economic policy marked the beginning of the end of the Bretton Woods international monetary system and temporarily halted inflation.
then the value of the dollar went to sh*t