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

[BumRushDaShow]

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

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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.

[gordianot]

1. Not very inspiring.

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

[NotHardly]

41. White male sh*t... of course.

Won't be wasting my money on that crap.

Edit: Is he holding his mother?

[Gaugamela]

2. The Australians like to say:

Thank god we got the criminals and not the puritans.

[NotHardly]

42. LOL!

You ain't wrong

[RetiredParatrooper]

3. Pilgrims?

The USA didn't exist for another 176 years (and yes, even then is was merely a confederation).

[BidenRocks]

17. They had a framework of a plan.

[Walleye]

4. I say go ahead and put your face on one of them asshole we'll just dump them over on your property

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

[mzmolly]

5. lol

[littlemissmartypants]

6. BORING. And unimaginative.

[paleotn]

28. To be expected from Repukes.

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

[Bob_in_VA]

7. I'm fine with Trump on a coin

of course, only dead presidents are on our coinage...

[Farmer-Rick]

35. They tried to put

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.

[electric_blue68]

45. Hmmmmm....

🤔

[Buddyzbuddy]

8. I for one, want nothing in my life that I can think of to remind me of this 4 year period

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.

[mahina]

9. I wonder how many people will think that e pluribus unum means in God we trust

[twodogsbarking]

11. I'll put my trust where I want, not where someone says I should. It's a coin not a holy object.

[mahina]

13. Check!

[mahina]

14. I'm surprised that from many, one is permitted!

[Warpy]

16. Probably most of them, alas

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

[PATRICK]

47. Proper translation

Out of many(gods) One. In Mammon we trust.

[reACTIONary]

10. Mostly boring, but...

Emerging Liberty isn't too bad.

[mountain grammy]

12. So can we make a deal with him if he dies right NOW

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

[cstanleytech]

15. That's a stupid looking idea for a coin and not even close to historical accurate.

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

[bmichaelh]

18. Roger Williams

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]

24. The Mayflower Compact would have be chosen...

... 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.

[Farmer-Rick]

37. Great clip

One of my favorites.

[eggplant]

19. What, no slaughtering of the natives?

[karin_sj]

20. The thought of a Trump coin...

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

[Gore1FL]

38. If it does, I expect the ones I see to be accidentally defaced before being returned to circulation. nt

[BidenRocks]

21. I'm surprised that the Constitution wasn't replaced with the

bible.

[Donkees]

22. commemorate, commiserate

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]

23. Reminds me that I'm living for the day "In God we trust" is removed from our money.

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!

[reACTIONary]

25. So, you've got a problem with evil?

[lonely bird]

26. Sorry but fuck the Puritans

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

[FakeNoose]

27. So ... the PILGRIMS came here in 1776? Good to know ...

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

[paleotn]

30. They helped storm the airports!

[paleotn]

29. Hey, Donnie. You've gotta die to get your face on a coin.

Yeah, OK.

[LiberalLovinLug]

31. So everyone is confident it won't look like this?

[eppur_se_muova]

34. Replete with gibberish typos ? Appropriate.

"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.

[cab67]

44. instead of "liberty..."

...will the flip side say "covfefe?"

[BradBo]

32. Trumps gonna touch that and it will turn to shit.

[CTyankee]

33. Oops, I must have misread this: I thought it read "Trump showering."

I thought I'd start throwing up...

[electric_blue68]

46. Good Lord; your post should have a Warning 🚨 label

ew, Ew, EWWWW!!!

[CTyankee]

50. I am so sorry! I try not to think about it...

[Farmer-Rick]

36. Why 1776 to 2026 under puritan macho man and scared little wifey???

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.

[PATRICK]

48. Actually

Miles Standish and Priscilla, before she dumped him.

[Zelda_Orchid]

39. White people ber alles

[GiqueCee]

40. Good grief...

... 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]

43. If demand from coin collectors is large enough, they'll find a loophole.

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]

49. The pilgram one shown above is pathetic but

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.

[Mosby]

51. Semiquincentennial Coin Program Media Kit

https://www.usmint.gov/news/media-kit/semiq-resources

I'll probably get the half dollar and quarter set at least.

[eppur_se_muova]

52. At least coins can be melted down and recycled.

These should have a record short turnover time.