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First Spouse Gold: When the First Ladies Finally Got Their Coins

For more than two centuries, U.S. coins honored presidents, allegories, and eagles — almost never the women beside the presidents. In 2007 that changed: the Mint began striking a half-ounce gold coin for each First Lady, in the exact order their husbands took office. The catch? When a president had no wife in the White House, the coin honored him instead — and one of those became the best-selling coin in the whole series.