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Presidential $1 coins
Four presidents a year. From 2012 on, the Mint made them as collectibles rather than standard circulating coins.
What our records show
- For 2007–2016, the years this site covers for this design, our table has production figures for 5 of 10 years; 5 years are not published in the sources we checked (2012–2016).
- Facilities in the record, with the mark their coins carried: Philadelphia: P (2007–2011); Denver: D (2007–2011).
- What the figures count: circulating production each calendar year, without proof or uncirculated-set coins (archived Mint production pages).
- From 2012 through 2016 the Mint made Presidential $1 coins as collectibles, not as standard circulating coins. Our production figures stop at 2011.
“From 2007 to 2016, the Mint issued four Presidential $1 Coins per year. However, in December 2011, the Secretary of the Treasury directed the United States Mint to suspend circulating Presidential $1 Coins, so the coins were continued as collectible items from that point on.”
Metal, weight and size, where a Mint table dates it
From 2012 through 2016 these coins were made for collectors, not as standard circulating coins (the Mint's words are quoted above). The sources we checked give no specification dated to those coins.
| Coin years | Specification and source |
|---|---|
| 2007–2016 | No specification dated to these years in the sources we checked. |
Each row covers only the coin years its source establishes. Proof and collector versions can differ and aren't covered.
Current Mint specification (undated; applicability to earlier years not established)
Metal: manganese-brass (88.5% copper, 6% zinc, 3.5% manganese, 2% nickel) · Weight: 8.1 g · Diameter: 26.49 mm
Source: U.S. Mint, Coin Specifications page (archived October 9, 2024; the page says its content was last updated April 28, 2022). The page doesn't say which years' coins it describes.
How many were made
| Year | Philadelphia P | Denver D | What the figure counts, and notes | Source (see list below) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 474.88 million | 468.23 million | All Presidential $1 coins designs of 2007 combined (calendar-year production). Per-design figures are in the by-design table below; for this year they add up to a different total (see the note below). circulating production that calendar year | 1 |
| 2008 | 234.50 million | 229.98 million | All Presidential $1 coins designs of 2008 combined (calendar-year production). Per-design figures are in the by-design table below. circulating production that calendar year | 2 |
| 2009 | 175.28 million | 177.10 million | All Presidential $1 coins designs of 2009 combined (calendar-year production). Per-design figures are in the by-design table below; for this year they add up to a different total (see the note below). circulating production that calendar year | 3 |
| 2010 | 161.56 million | 159.88 million | All Presidential $1 coins designs of 2010 combined (calendar-year production). Per-design figures are in the by-design table below. circulating production that calendar year | 4 |
| 2011 | 148.40 million | 148.96 million | All Presidential $1 coins designs of 2011 combined (calendar-year production). Per-design figures are in the by-design table below. circulating production that calendar year | 5 |
| 2012–2016 | Not published in the sources we checked. The Mint's current production-figures page shows a browser challenge to automated requests, and the archived copies we found don't include these years. | |||
- Mint production page, 2007 (archived), January 2007 through December 2007
- Mint production page, 2008 (archived), January 2008 through December 2008
- Mint production page, 2009 (archived), January 2009 through December 2009
- Mint production page, 2010 (archived), January 2010 through December 2010
- Mint production page, 2011 (archived), January 2011 through December 2011
By design
The Mint's production pages list each design separately: circulating production at Denver and Philadelphia, without proof or collector coins. This is a different count from the calendar-year table above.
The calendar-year totals and the per-design figures don't match for every year. The year-by-mint table gives each year's circulating production from the Mint's annual production pages; the by-design table gives the Mint's program figures for each design. Calendar-year total minus the sum of that year's designs: 2007 Denver: +1,820,000; 2007 Philadelphia: +420,000; 2009 Philadelphia: +280,000. The Mint attached this note to a later program page (2012 America the Beautiful quarters): “America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program production total may not match the total in the Coin Production page. The latter includes production numbers for partial as well as completed quarter programs as of the end of the period being reported.” (U.S. Mint) The Presidential $1 coins pages we cite carry no such note, so we show both counts as published and adjust neither.
Where the mint mark is
The Mint pages we used don't say where this design carries its mint mark, so we don't give a location.
Sources
- Coin Production Figures (U.S. Mint, 1999-2012 site). United States Mint (archived copy).
- Dollar Coins (U.S. Mint, Circulating Coins). United States Mint (archived copy).
- Coin Specifications (U.S. Mint). United States Mint (archived copy).
- 2012 America the Beautiful Quarter Production (U.S. Mint). United States Mint (archived copy).
Figures and quotes checked against their sources on October 12, 2026.