New Presidential Dollar Coins

The US Mint has decided that the reason people haven't been using the "golden" Sacagawea $1 coin is because the don't like the design. Huh? Did they ever stop to think it was because the $1 bill is still in wider circulation than the coin? I have never once received a $1 coin in change anywhere other than the post office.

While I think their logic is flawed, I do like the new design. Starting this year, the Mint will release four dollar coins a year featuring the faces of all the US presidents in order of their presidency. So, if you've always wondered why Hoosier president William Henry Harrison has never been honored with a coin, you can stop complaining. His Dollar will be release din 2009. Grover Cleveland will have two coins in 2012. Between now and Unfortunately, there won't be a William Jefferson Clinton coin scheduled just yet. The Mint doesn't put images of living people on coins (except in the strange case of Eunice Shriver on the 1995 Special Olympics commemorative Silver Dollar). The last scheduled coin is for Richard Nixon in 2016. I wonder if a Gerald Ford coin will be added to the program? Reagan will probably have to wait until after Jimmy Carter's death, but hopefully the 82 year old Carter won't be going anywhere for a while.