![]() Unlike the wildly popular 50 State Quarters program, which ended in 2008, the Presidential dollars failed to stir much attention, and it clearly fell short of its overarching goal, which was to help stimulate the widespread circulation of dollar coins. The series began with George Washington and included a total of four presidents each year through 2015, with the final three issues in 2016 concluding with Ronald Reagan. A president would have had to pass away at least two years prior to his or her being honored in the series. Gerald Tebben is editor of the Central States Numismatic Society’s Centinel.The Presidential $1 coin series have been produced since 2007 and honor each of the deceased United States presidents who had served. Collectors over the age of 69 may remember and either revere or revile this singularly important president. Roosevelt, who won four presidential elections, saw the nation through the Great Depression and World War II. The dime was a natural vehicle to honor Roosevelt after he died in 1945. Its chief fundraiser was the annual March of Dimes campaign. Roosevelt, who came down with the disease at 39, founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in the late 1930s. The first Roosevelt coin helped defeat polio - the source of summer nightmares for baby boomers until a vaccine was developed in the mid-1950s. Roosevelt, the only Democrat depicted on this year’s coins, has appeared on the dime since 1946, the year after his death, and on the 1997-W Franklin Delano Roosevelt gold $5 commemorative coin. Collectors over 80 may remember Hoover, though likely not with passion.įeelings rise to the surface, though, with the president who appears on the last 2014 Presidential dollar - Franklin D. The theme of that election - the scope of government - remains with us today, framing the underlying discussion of almost every election since. Roosevelt’s New Deal as a “repudiation of Democracy.” He spent the next several years vigorously attacking victor Franklin D. In 1932, Hoover garnered less than 40 percent of the vote as the nation’s economy fell apart. Hoover, a Republican, led American efforts to provide food for Europe during and after the war. Herbert Hoover, president from 1929 to 1933, is known for both heading World War I humanitarian efforts and presiding over the start of the Great Depression. Collectors older than 85 were alive during his tenure. He helped restore dignity to the office of president after the Harding years and championed small government and low taxes. Sesquicentennial of Independence commemorative half dollar.Ī year before the nation collapsed into the Great Depression, Coolidge famously chose not to run again. coin while still alive, appears together with George Washington on the obverse of the 1926 U.S. Coolidge, the only president to appear on a U.S. He took the oath of office after Harding’s death and served until 1929. Republican Calvin Coolidge, a taciturn chief executive known to history as “Silent Cal,” improbably makes his second appearance on a U.S. This year’s dollar marks Harding’s first appearance on a United States coin. The few collectors among us who are in their 90s may remember him. She refused to allow an autopsy and burned most of his private and public papers in the days after his death. Rumors began circulating immediately after his death that his wife poisoned him for philandering. ![]() The cause of death is officially listed as a heart attack. Harding died while still in office, in his 57th year. Fall, the first and only cabinet member to be jailed. The affair tarnished Harding and led to the imprisonment of his interior secretary, Albert B. The Ohio Republican is mostly remembered for the Teapot Dome scandal in which government oil reserve land was cheaply and illegally leased to oil company executives. The Presidential dollar program for 2014 moves into the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, decades many collectors alive today remember.įirst up is Warren G. ![]() This year people you can hate or love from personal experience will be making a visit to a dollar coin near you.
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