United States
1 Dollar "Presidential Dollar" · “Presidential Dollar”
United States · 2007–2020 · Manganese
The coin
The story
The Presidential Dollar: a coin the country refused to spend
Between 2007 and 2011 the U.S. Mint struck dollar coins faster than anyone would spend them. By mid-2011 more than 1.25 billion of them sat unwanted in Federal Reserve vaults — so many that a Texas vault had to be redesigned to hold the pile.
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