# Here's one coin that I will not be adding to my collection **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 20, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596 "2026-03-20T00:36:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/1 "2026-03-20T00:36:04Z")
I’ve got to boast for a second–I’ve got a pretty impressive [challenge coin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_coin) collection (90+ IIRC). But I will _ **not** _ be adding this one! > **[US Mint can begin producing Trump commemorative gold coin after arts...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-gold-coin-250th-anniversary-8be387e70ae561c62e27552bf47fb430)** > > A federal arts commission has approved the design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing President Donald Trump's image to celebrate America's 250th birthday. Tripler Nope. 😡 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/2 "2026-03-20T00:47:11Z")
Not even if there’s a special collector’s edition in gold and marble? > [@](#): > > Chamberlain Harris, a White House aide whom Trump appointed to the commission this year, said the biggest possible coin would be Trump’s preference. > > “The larger the better,” she said, shortly before the coin was approved by the entire panel… > > The coin would depict a stern-looking Trump leaning over a desk and staring forward. It is based on a photograph displayed in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Looking at the design, it doesn’t say “stern” to me. Looks more like a worried turtle about to pull its head into its shell. > **[Trump-appointed arts panel approves gold coin featuring president’s image](https://wtvbam.com/2026/03/19/trump-appointed-arts-panel-approves-gold-coin-featuring-presidents-image/)** > > By Tim Reid WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - A federal arts panel comprised of members appointed by Donald Trump on Thursday unanimously approved a commemorative gold coin featuring his image, part of a series of coins the U.S. Mint is planning to... ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/3 "2026-03-20T01:39:08Z")
**Q** : When does a commemorative coin become a commemorative plate? **A** : when it’s as uselessly big as this garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/4 "2026-03-20T01:45:20Z")
Maybe somebody with the right materials and equipment can pull a stunt similar to the OSS’s Operation Cornflakes [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Operation-Cornflakes-3values.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Operation-Cornflakes-3values.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/5 "2026-03-20T01:48:10Z")
Moderating: Overtly political OP, Trump outrage… this is a Pit thread if it’s anything. As such, I’m closing it. @Tripler, please let us know if you’d like it reopened in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/6 "2026-03-20T01:48:24Z")
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**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/7 "2026-03-20T23:50:42Z")
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**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/8 "2026-03-20T23:51:05Z")
At the request of the OP, this is reopened in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/9 "2026-03-21T00:16:06Z")
Nitpick (not directed at the OP) if it isn’t spendable legal tender, it isn’t a coin. That’s a round or a medallion. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/10 "2026-03-21T08:13:52Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nitpick (not directed at the OP) if it isn’t spendable legal tender, it isn’t a coin. You might want to check before you nitpick. > **[Definition of COIN](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coin)** > > corner, cornerstone, quoin; wedge; a usually flat piece of metal issued by governmental authority as money… See the full definition By definition, it does **not** have to be legal tender. It’s valid to refer to an object that resembles a coin used as legal tender as a “coin”. > something resembling a coin especially in shape That’s the thing about language; when people use a term incorrectly in a particular way often enough, for long enough, that usage eventually becomes correct. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/11 "2026-03-21T08:28:33Z")
Pretty sure I could still place a round at dead centre. Doesn’t matter if it’s 20m or 50m, I can do it with iron sights from a .22. I can do 200m with telescopic sights, and a .257 Roberts/Remington. According to Americans, we Canadians aren’t supposed to have guns. Well, bring out Mr. Trump’s vanity coin and put it on a target, and I’ll prove that not only do we have guns, but that we know how to shoot them. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/12 "2026-03-21T08:52:21Z")
I guess he expects to get a sample for free. Say twelve dozen or so, right? I bet the “Arts Panel” will gladly agree. He not only looks ridiculous and stupid, as was to be expected. The whole things is horribly drawn, and his head covering part of the E in LIBERTY, the **IN GOD WE TRUST** in a circle section at the bottom, and putting six stars on the left side but seven on the right (hint: the upper star is too close to the Y, the lower too close to the small hand) is typographically amateurish, not to say hineous. And that drawing, I can tell you, does not work on a metal surface. Seven eights of the surface are his suit, if you crease it it looks shabby, if you don’t crease it it looks drab. What a bunch of idiots. [![](https://storage.googleapis.com/media.mwcradio.com/mimesis/2026-03/19/2026-03-19T191825Z_1_LYNXMPEM2I1AX_RTROPTP_3_USA-TRUMP-COIN.JPG) ](https://storage.googleapis.com/media.mwcradio.com/mimesis/2026-03/19/2026-03-19T191825Z_1_LYNXMPEM2I1AX_RTROPTP_3_USA-TRUMP-COIN.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/13 "2026-03-21T09:08:28Z")
So it’s a six, seven joke? ---
**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:** [March 21, 2026, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/14 "2026-03-21T09:28:19Z")
@Pardel-Lux , good criticism, from a design point of view. I agree. I’d still like my rifle. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/15 "2026-03-21T11:45:02Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > and his head covering part of the E in LIBERTY, But, but but clearly trump is more important than mere liberty. he’s certainly trampling it everywhere he can. The coin should have him literally overshadowing liberty. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/16 "2026-03-21T12:40:58Z")
“It has a certain understated stupidity.” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/17 "2026-03-21T12:54:58Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > He not only looks ridiculous and stupid, as was to be expected. The whole things is horribly drawn, and his head covering part of the E in LIBERTY, the **IN GOD WE TRUST** in a circle section at the bottom, and putting six stars on the left side but seven on the right (hint: the upper star is too close to the Y, the lower too close to the small hand) is typographically amateurish, not to say hineous. And that drawing, I can tell you, does not work on a metal surface. Seven eights of the surface are his suit, if you crease it it looks shabby, if you don’t crease it it looks drab. > > What a bunch of idiots. Yes, nice criticism. It is indeed badly drawn and badly designed. It doesn’t look like trump is leaning on a desk, it looks like he’s leaning over a low wall and his tiny fists are suspended in space in front of the wall, making his posture look stiff and unnatural. But then, his actual posture is stiff and unnatural, so maybe it is accurate 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/18 "2026-03-21T13:09:23Z")
I don’t do typographical design, but the kerning of “1776” and “2026” bothers me somewhat. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/19 "2026-03-21T13:18:36Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > By definition, it does **not** have to be legal tender. > The key difference between silver coins and [silver rounds](https://sdbullion.com/silver/silver-rounds) is legal tender status. Coins are government-minted with a face value, while rounds are privately minted with no denomination. > **[Silver Rounds vs Coins: Understanding the Key Differences for Silver Investors](https://sdbullion.com/blog/silver-coins-vs-rounds)** > > When buying Silver Bullion new buyers are often faced with the question of whether to buy a "Silver Round” or a “Silver Coin”. What are the major differences... > Two important attributes distinguish a coin from a round: > > ``` > A coin is minted by a sovereign government. > A coin is legal tender with a minimum face value. > > ``` [https://learn.apmex.com/learning-guide/bullion/what-is-the-difference-between-a-coin-and-a-round/](https://learn.apmex.com/learning-guide/bullion/what-is-the-difference-between-a-coin-and-a-round/) > Coins are minted by a sovereign government, are legal tender, and have a minimum face value in addition to a melt value. > **[Key Differences Between Rounds & Coins | U.S. Money Reserve](https://www.usmoneyreserve.com/news/coins/key-differences-between-rounds-coins/)** > > Build a precious metals portfolio that's strong & reliable. Learn how gold & silver rounds differ from coins to get started now, from U.S. Money Reserve. Unless the Trump thing has a value stamped on it and you can literally spend it at that value, it is not a coin. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596/20 "2026-03-21T13:20:25Z")
It’s important to remember the he was the one to approve the design. So the actually skilled design folks had to make it dumb enough to pass his approval. The guy couldn’t recognize actual quality anything even if it was dropped on his head. For me the 13 stars are the worst part. It’s admittedly legitimately hard to design neatly with that size of an odd number of things. 3 or 31 would be easier than 13. But they picked about the worst way. So much winning. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-one-coin-that-i-will-not-be-adding-to-my-collection/1028596.md?page=2)