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 Presidential Dollar Coins  

   Press Release ~ Mint Release schedule ~ Original $ Legislation 

Mint announces "Edge Lettering" for new Dollar coins ~Prez Proof Sets delayed ~ Errors found on new Pres $'s

United States Mint

Announces

New "Edge Lettering"

on Presidential Dollar coins

January 2007

President dollars have unique side view

The United States mint has officially confirmed that the new US Presidential Dollar coins to be released early in 2007 will indeed have edge lettering.  The edge lettering will show the year of minting along with American coinage inscriptions such as "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum".

Side view - letters on edge

 

As you hold up a Presidential dollar coin and view it from the side you will notice these new and exiting features. 

 

Surprising Mint Mark Location

An additional feature is that the mint mark will also be located on the side of the coin.  Therefore, to see what mint the coin was produced at, you will need to look at the edge of the coin. 

 

Two different methods of creating the edge lettering.  

The US mint announced they will be using two different techniques to locate the new information on each coins edge.  For regular "business strikes" the mint will send the coins through a special machine which will add the edge lettering after each coin is struck by the dies.  For "Proof" condition coins, the edge lettering will be added to the collar which holds the coin in place while being struck by the dies.  As the coin expands under great pressure when being struck by the coin dies, the metal will flow into the lettering found on the collar and thereby appear on the finished coins.

 

Edge lettering is not unique for United States coinage.  However, it hasn't been used in years for coins released into circulation.  The US mint used edge lettering in the early days of US coins back in the 19th century.  (Some old bust half dollars from the early 1800's showed edge lettering.)  Edge lettering gradually gave way to reeded edge and plain edge coinage.

 

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~Legislation Authorizing Presidential Dollar Coins in 2007.

~Prez Proof Sets delayed

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