The United States has a tradition of only placing portraits of dead Presidents on the obverse of coins produced by the U.S. Mint.
The Lincoln Cent first issued in 1909 was the first U.S. coin to depict a portrait of a dead U.S. President and other U.S. coins soon followed the tradition.
U.S. federal law states that no living man or woman can appear on the U.S. coinage. Presidents must be dead for at least two years before they are eligible for consideration to be placed on a coin.
Our view on this is that if a living President or anyone else fell from grace due to a scandal, the general public would certainly not want that President or person on a circulating coin.
This Federal law also provides time for decisions to be made as to whether or not that persons lifetime achievements warrant a place on a U.S. coin.
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