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BumRushDaShow

(165,755 posts)
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 03:45 PM Dec 12

New coins to commemorate 250th anniversary of American independence. Here's how they'll look

Source: The Independent

Friday 12 December 2025 03:49 EST


The U.S. Mint has unveiled coins designs for America's 250th independence anniversary next year, featuring classical depictions of founding documents and the Revolutionary War. Donald Trump is notably absent, despite a push from allies for his image.

These designs abandon concepts from Joe Biden’s presidency, which highlighted women's suffrage and civil rights, instead favouring traditional American themes. The coins, part of America 250 celebrations marking the Declaration of Independence, will uniquely display their mint year alongside 1776.


Five versions of the quarter are planned depicting the Mayflower Compact, Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Gettysburg Address. (U.S. Mint)

Trump, at least for now, isn't getting a coin

No design was released for a $1 coin, though U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, whose duties include oversight of the U.S. Mint, serving as a liaison with the Federal Reserve and overseeing Treasury’s Office of Consumer Policy, confirmed in October that one showcasing Trump was in the works.

A draft design showed Trump’s profile on the “heads” side, known as the obverse, and on the reverse, a depiction of Trump raising his fist after his attempted assassination, The words “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT” appear along the top. By law, presidents typically can’t appear on coins until two years after their death, but some advocates for a Trump coin think there may be a loophole in the law authorizing the treasury to mint special coins for the nation's 250th birthday.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/new-coins-america-250-independence-us-mint-b2883183.html



They of course ditched Biden's original designs and I agree with Sen. Cortez Masto's comment -

“The American story didn’t stop at the pilgrims and founding fathers, and ignoring anything that has happened in this country in the last 162 years is just another attempt by President Trump to rewrite our history,” Cortez Masto said in a statement.
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New coins to commemorate 250th anniversary of American independence. Here's how they'll look (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 12 OP
Not very inspiring. gordianot Dec 12 #1
White male sh*t... of course. NotHardly Dec 13 #41
The Australians like to say: Gaugamela Dec 12 #2
LOL! NotHardly Dec 13 #42
Pilgrims? RetiredParatrooper Dec 12 #3
They had a framework of a plan. BidenRocks Dec 12 #17
I say go ahead and put your face on one of them asshole we'll just dump them over on your property Walleye Dec 12 #4
lol mzmolly Dec 12 #5
BORING. And unimaginative. littlemissmartypants Dec 12 #6
To be expected from Repukes. paleotn Dec 12 #28
I'm fine with Trump on a coin Bob_in_VA Dec 12 #7
They tried to put Farmer-Rick Dec 13 #35
Hmmmmm.... electric_blue68 Dec 13 #45
I for one, want nothing in my life that I can think of to remind me of this 4 year period Buddyzbuddy Dec 12 #8
I wonder how many people will think that e pluribus unum means in God we trust mahina Dec 12 #9
I'll put my trust where I want, not where someone says I should. It's a coin not a holy object. twodogsbarking Dec 12 #11
Check! mahina Dec 12 #13
I'm surprised that from many, one is permitted! mahina Dec 12 #14
Probably most of them, alas Warpy Dec 12 #16
Proper translation PATRICK Dec 13 #47
Mostly boring, but... reACTIONary Dec 12 #10
So can we make a deal with him if he dies right NOW mountain grammy Dec 12 #12
That's a stupid looking idea for a coin and not even close to historical accurate. cstanleytech Dec 12 #15
Roger Williams bmichaelh Dec 12 #18
The Mayflower Compact would have be chosen... reACTIONary Dec 12 #24
Great clip Farmer-Rick Dec 13 #37
What, no slaughtering of the natives? eggplant Dec 12 #19
The thought of a Trump coin... karin_sj Dec 12 #20
If it does, I expect the ones I see to be accidentally defaced before being returned to circulation. nt Gore1FL Dec 13 #38
I'm surprised that the Constitution wasn't replaced with the BidenRocks Dec 12 #21
commemorate, commiserate Donkees Dec 12 #22
Reminds me that I'm living for the day "In God we trust" is removed from our money. Intractable Dec 12 #23
So, you've got a problem with evil? reACTIONary Dec 12 #25
Sorry but fuck the Puritans lonely bird Dec 12 #26
So ... the PILGRIMS came here in 1776? Good to know ... FakeNoose Dec 12 #27
They helped storm the airports! paleotn Dec 12 #30
Hey, Donnie. You've gotta die to get your face on a coin. paleotn Dec 12 #29
So everyone is confident it won't look like this? LiberalLovinLug Dec 12 #31
Replete with gibberish typos ? Appropriate. eppur_se_muova Dec 12 #34
instead of "liberty..." cab67 Dec 13 #44
Trumps gonna touch that and it will turn to shit. BradBo Dec 12 #32
Oops, I must have misread this: I thought it read "Trump showering." CTyankee Dec 12 #33
Good Lord; your post should have a Warning 🚨 label electric_blue68 Dec 13 #46
I am so sorry! I try not to think about it... CTyankee Dec 13 #50
Yeah, really! Eeeeee! 😄 electric_blue68 Dec 15 #53
Why 1776 to 2026 under puritan macho man and scared little wifey??? Farmer-Rick Dec 13 #36
Actually PATRICK Dec 13 #48
White people ber alles Zelda_Orchid Dec 13 #39
Good grief... GiqueCee Dec 13 #40
If demand from coin collectors is large enough, they'll find a loophole. cab67 Dec 13 #43
The pilgram one shown above is pathetic but jgmiller Dec 13 #49
Semiquincentennial Coin Program Media Kit Mosby Dec 13 #51
At least coins can be melted down and recycled. eppur_se_muova Dec 13 #52

gordianot

(15,740 posts)
1. Not very inspiring.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 03:53 PM
Dec 12

At least they do not have Trump. Excluding native Americans it focuses on undocumented immigrants

NotHardly

(2,621 posts)
41. White male sh*t... of course.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 11:21 AM
Dec 13

Won't be wasting my money on that crap.

Edit: Is he holding his mother?

Walleye

(43,817 posts)
4. I say go ahead and put your face on one of them asshole we'll just dump them over on your property
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 04:05 PM
Dec 12

And we can show you what we think your one dollar is worth

paleotn

(21,545 posts)
28. To be expected from Repukes.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 10:15 PM
Dec 12

They're not funny. They're not clever. They're not creative. They're just mean, nasty little cusses.

Farmer-Rick

(12,480 posts)
35. They tried to put
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:00 AM
Dec 13

Nancy Reagan's face on a coin while she was still alive. She died a few months before it was released. It was minted already when she was still alive. But she died before it was officially released. She was a very superstitious woman. I wonder if it hurried her demise?

It's considered very bad luck to get your face put on a coin while you are still alive. There are several other stories in modern history of living people having their faces put on coins when they died soon after.

Maybe pedo Trump should get his face put on a coin.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,129 posts)
8. I for one, want nothing in my life that I can think of to remind me of this 4 year period
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 05:21 PM
Dec 12

of darkness that has fallen on America.

After this is "over" I, like many of my fellow Americans will work to obliterate the T**** name from our history except as a reference much like Hitler has become. The worst of the worst this Country had to offer backed by a a group of low I.Q., low information, hate filled racists fooled by greedy, power hungry oligarchs and foreign saboteurs to vote for this scourge on our society.

So no, keep your crap and shove it where the sun don't shine.

twodogsbarking

(17,580 posts)
11. I'll put my trust where I want, not where someone says I should. It's a coin not a holy object.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 05:53 PM
Dec 12

Warpy

(114,389 posts)
16. Probably most of them, alas
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 06:47 PM
Dec 12

I've thought the only thing that should be on this coin is a tombstone, but it's been that sort of a day.

mountain grammy

(28,682 posts)
12. So can we make a deal with him if he dies right NOW
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 06:00 PM
Dec 12

we'll go ahead and put his stupid face on a coin next year.
then just don't do it..

cstanleytech

(28,222 posts)
15. That's a stupid looking idea for a coin and not even close to historical accurate.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 06:38 PM
Dec 12

A better one would be something like the Liberty Bell on the front and the Constitution on the back.

bmichaelh

(1,084 posts)
18. Roger Williams
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 07:25 PM
Dec 12

Who made that choice of Mayflower Compact?

Probably the dissident Roger Williams with his separation of church and state and religious liberty had more influence on the founding fathers than the Puritans that persecuted and prosecuted him.

He was brought up in court for "erroneous" and "dangerous opinions."

The Puritans treated the children of Massasoit in deplorable manner.

Massasoit and Squanto helped save these colonists.

reACTIONary

(6,977 posts)
24. The Mayflower Compact would have be chosen...
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:20 PM
Dec 12

... for its significance as an Ur-Document in American constitutional history.

It is considered to be of significance not because of its actual content, but because it provides the first concreate example of the American tendency towards self-government, rule of law, and written, explicitly thought-out and agreed to constitutional governance, rather than an amalgam or hodgepodge or traditional practices and tendencies.

It also provides an almost literal, and yet mythic, example of the enlightenment social contract theory of governance, emerging from a state of nature into civil society:

The Mayflower was blown off course, and did not make landfall where it was supposed to have. If it had, the colonists would have been integrated into an existing legal and social frame work. But having been blown off course, they faced the prospect of, quite literally, entering into a "state of nature." In Hobbs's formulation, the prospect loomed of facing a war of all against all. They did, almost picture perfect, what the advocates of social contract theory speculated about and advocated - they created a governing compact amongst themselves and almost unanimously and voluntarily signed up to its provisions.

The constitution of Rohde Island is more American in its content, but it was the Mayflower compact that (presumably) first exemplified the sprit of constitutional governance itself, that became the spirt of America and culminated in our Constitution as we know it today.

Oh! I forgot to add:

The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims. And especially do not trust Sarah Miller.

karin_sj

(1,326 posts)
20. The thought of a Trump coin...
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 07:27 PM
Dec 12

With his ugly face, raised fist, and "Fight, fight, fight" makes me want to puke. This cannot happen.

Gore1FL

(22,839 posts)
38. If it does, I expect the ones I see to be accidentally defaced before being returned to circulation. nt
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 06:44 AM
Dec 13

Donkees

(33,407 posts)
22. commemorate, commiserate
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 08:13 PM
Dec 12
I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
Oh, but it’s all right, it’s all right
For lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road
We’re traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can’t help it, I wonder what’s gone wrong

And I dreamed I was dying
And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying

Oh, we come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age’s most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune
Oh, it’s all right, it’s all right
It’s all right, it’s all right
You can’t be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow’s going to be another working day
And I’m trying to get some rest
That’s all I’m trying to get some rest

Intractable

(1,634 posts)
23. Reminds me that I'm living for the day "In God we trust" is removed from our money.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:19 PM
Dec 12

If God exists, and is all good, s/he shouldn't be on the "dirty" money.

If God exists, and is all knowing and powerful, s/he is not to be trusted. Look at this f*cking world!

lonely bird

(2,773 posts)
26. Sorry but fuck the Puritans
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:45 PM
Dec 12

Their twisted religionism is the seed from which this country screwed millions of people.

FakeNoose

(40,180 posts)
27. So ... the PILGRIMS came here in 1776? Good to know ...
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:50 PM
Dec 12

Did anyone in Washington pass a high school history test? Not likely.

eppur_se_muova

(40,982 posts)
34. Replete with gibberish typos ? Appropriate.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 11:16 PM
Dec 12

"SOMETIMES BXLOSING THE BATHTE, YOUFIRD ARE W WAY TO WIN THE WAR"

Typo: missing "covfefe"

Must be Artificial "Intelligence", natural stupidity could never be this bad.

CTyankee

(67,793 posts)
33. Oops, I must have misread this: I thought it read "Trump showering."
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 10:34 PM
Dec 12

I thought I'd start throwing up...

Farmer-Rick

(12,480 posts)
36. Why 1776 to 2026 under puritan macho man and scared little wifey???
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:16 AM
Dec 13

They were alive, if they really looked like that, in what 1620? They don't fit into the time frame of the celebration.

Also, does anyone else find that image of the puritans insulting? It gives off the feel of scared little woman must be protected by big brave man vibes. Also puritans would never be touching each other like that especially in public.

GiqueCee

(3,410 posts)
40. Good grief...
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 08:38 AM
Dec 13

... the insufferable egomania of this psychopath grows worse with every passing day. It is sickening that he would choose the image of the faked assassination attempt with the bellicose words, "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" as a celebration of the nation's 250th birthday. What an utterly repulsive excuse for a human being.
Republicans own this malicious monster, and they will pay for it.

cab67

(3,636 posts)
43. If demand from coin collectors is large enough, they'll find a loophole.
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 12:16 PM
Dec 13

I'm not a serious coin collector - I keep a set of circulating US currency, and I have a big fish bowl full of loose change I've brought back from countries I've visited,* but that's it.

That said, the coin collector community is huge, and based on what I've heard from a close friend who is a serious collector, a disproportionate number within that community trend right of center. I would imagine there's a lot of interest from such people for coins featuring Old Colostomy, and they'll be willing to pay good money for mint versions.



*I was in the UK last month. I think I only got one five pound note with Charles on it. Every coin I encountered featured Elizabeth II. And although putting a living person's image on a coin might be seen as bad luck, Elizabeth II is powerful evidence to the contrary.

jgmiller

(670 posts)
49. The pilgram one shown above is pathetic but
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 05:47 PM
Dec 13

I looked at the other designs and while I hate that they changed them because of the facist attempt to rewrite history most of them aren't bad. The dime is particularly good, it's a modern version of the liberty cap design that was on a lot of US coinage in the last 18th and early 19th century. I think it's interesting they chose to remove two of the most popular DEMCORATIC presidents of the 20th century though, FDR and JFK. Their pettiness knows no bounds.

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