The Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday approved a new 24-carat coin featuring President Trump’s likeness to celebrate American’s 250th birthday.
The CFA committee, packed with hand-picked Trump allies, unanimously approved the commemorative coin’s design on Thursday, allowing the US Mint to begin production.
The panel greenlit the design of a stern-looking Trump with his fists clenched on a desk and the word “Liberty” scrawled above him, based on an image of him displayed in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
The other side of the coin captures a bald eagle about to take flight, according to the mockups.
“As we approach our 250th birthday, we are thrilled to prepare coins that represent the enduring spirit of our country and democracy, and there is no profile more emblematic for the front of such coins than that of our serving President, Donald J. Trump,” US Treasurer Brandon Beach said in a statement.
Chamberlain Harris, a 26-year-old White House aide appointed ot the CFA, told a US Mint official during a presentation given to the panel that the gold coin should be the largest possible.
“The larger the better,” she said, before the design was approved.
“I think the president likes big things,” James McCrery II, another Trump-appointed commissioner who was the first architect on the East Wing Ballroom project, told the group, per ABC News.
Trump has already approved the design, and Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to order the coin to be minted. The US Mint will ultimately decide the coin’s dimensions.
The US Mint did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment on a production timeline for the Trump coin.
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Coin designs are supposed to receive approval from two panels, including the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, established by Congress to review and advise the Treasury Secretary, The Washington Post reported.
Critics on the committee told the outlet that the administration might mint the coin without their approval, but it would likely face legal challenges.
“It’s wrong. It goes against American culture and the traditions that drive what we put on our coinage,” Michael Moran, a Republican coin collector and CCAC member, told the outlet. “I didn’t sign up for this.”
Calvin Coolidge was the only past president to be featured on a US coin while still alive. His portrait was on a commemorative coin to mark the nation’s sesquicentennial in 1926, the outlet reported.
The Post has attempted to reach the US Treasury for comment.
With Post wires
