Caroline Turco

It would be unprecedented.

It has happened once before in 1926 when Calvin Coolidge, celebrating the 150th anniversary of our independence, placed himself beside Washington.

But at that time, it was not illegal.

The legality of putting a living person on a coin did not occur until 1982.

So if we're thinking about it in terms of an illegally minted coin, it would certainly be a first.

Absolutely.

You know, when we first looked at coinage, 1792, when the U.S.

Mint was first established, they went to George and said, we're ready for you.

We need your portrait.

You've got to be on our coins.

And he said, to paraphrase, over my dead body, you know, he said, we just fought a war against monarchy.

Why on earth would we replicate how monarchs put themselves on coins?

You know, artistically, I think it's very strong.

And I mean that both in terms of a design and in terms of the emotions it's presenting.

But the obverse or the front of the coin features President Trump.

And he is very aggressively standing, you know, before his desk with clenched fists.

His very chiseled face is angry, I might argue.

It certainly is a powerful image.

It's an aggressive image.

And it's head on.