# Check out this coin the White House sells. $100 \[Update: Not from the real White House\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 17, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219 "2020-12-17T02:31:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/1 "2020-12-17T02:31:41Z")
This guy on reddit spent $100 on this coin/medallion and it is especially hilarious since he lost the election. Still, look at it. Really look at it. “I LOVE YOU” is printed on it. What is this thing? How can this be a thing? [Look at it here(can’t embed in this post)](https://i.redd.it/gmnijxlqfm561.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/2 "2020-12-17T03:35:34Z")
Confirmation that the White House sells this? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/3 "2020-12-17T03:36:24Z")
Best Economy! Beats COVID! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/4 "2020-12-17T03:53:41Z")
Probably this, not affiliated with the government. > **[Is the White House Gift Shop Selling a 'Trump Defeats COVID-19' Coin?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-defeats-covid19-coin/)** > > Question is whether the coin comes from an official government gift shop. > **[The White House Gift Shop, Est. 1946 by Permanent Order of President H. S....](https://www.whitehousegiftshop.com/Default.asp)** > > Welcome to the White House Gift Shop, Est. 1946 by permanent order of President Harry S. Truman & Secret Service Officers. For 70 years the White House Gift Shop Store is the authentic U.S. Trademark Protected Source for President Donald J. Trump,... ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/5 "2020-12-17T04:43:22Z")
“Donald Trump beats COVID-19” … is that like “getting cholera beats a case of the bubonic plague”? Being under 60, personally I’d go with the virus ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/6 "2020-12-17T05:05:46Z")
What does the “1886” supposed to signify? The year Grandpa Drumpf was born? ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/7 "2020-12-17T05:16:56Z")
Also 5/6/20 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/8 "2020-12-17T05:17:50Z")
It’s the year Coca-Cola was invented. Although why he didn’t use 1982, when Diet Coke (apparently his favourite beverage) was introduced, is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/9 "2020-12-17T08:33:38Z")
I think that must be the serial number. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/10 "2020-12-17T09:08:07Z")
The icing on the idiot cake is that the picture on the coin doesn’t even look like him. Too much Photopshopping, I guess, to try to make him look human. Also, he’s not nearly orange enough. The only true part is “the best is yet to come”. I agree with that. After Jan 20, when there is a real president, when the country is at last in good hands again and the Orange Peril becomes permanently and irrevocably unhinged, his entertainment value should be substantial! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/11 "2020-12-17T13:22:32Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Confirmation that the White House sells this? No, and now that I read more carefully, the OP on reddit pointed out the government is not the one selling it. How lame and dumb is Trump that I believe this is from his people? It’s kind of a parody, to be honest. Edit: I notified a mod to edit the title to indicate I was in error. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-coin-the-white-house-sells-100-update-not-from-the-real-white-house/928219/12 "2020-12-26T00:53:56Z")
The reverse side of the coin probably says COVID DEFEATS TRUMP.