New $1 Coins Presented At Ash Lawn-Highland

James Monroe Presidential $1 Coins Head into Circulation Nationwide on Valentines Day said Executive Director Carolyn Holmes. The College of William and Mary, Monroes alma mater, joins us in paying accolade to this arresting President. and In God We Trust

Charlottesville, Virginia -- Ash Lawn-Highland, the acreage of President James Monroe in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the aboriginal abode in the Nation to access James Monroe Presidential $1 Coins, a day afore the bill were clearly placed into apportionment nationwide. The account media and accessible were arrive to the 11 a.m. celebration and bread barter on Wednesday, February 13.

Monroe with kids

In a abrupt celebration afore the bread exchange, the new James Monroe Presidential $1 Coins was presented to the American people, with a august pour" of hundreds of shiny, new coins. The Acting Deputy Director of the United States Mint, Dan Shaver, abutting Ash Lawn-Highlands Executive Director, Carolyn Coggin Holmes, James Monroe Memorial Foundation President J. William Thomas Jr. and James Monroe re-enactor Dennis Bigelow for the event.

We are accustomed to be called by the United States Mint for this celebrated event. How appropriate to accept it if we are adulatory the 250th celebration of Monroes birth," said Executive Director Carolyn Holmes. The College of William and Mary, Monroes alma mater, joins us in paying accolade to this arresting President."

Fifteen first-graders from Free Union Country School, in Charlottesville, watched as President Monroe (re-enactor Dennis Bigelow) presented his new bread to the audience, You youngsters are the aboriginal in the nation to appearance this a lot of celebrated coin."

Monroes Presidency was accepted as The Era of Good Feelings," and he was one of the countrys a lot of accepted arch executives. Monroe served as the Nations fifth President from 1817 to 1825, and appropriately this is the United States Mints fifth Presidential $1 Coin. When President Monroe took office, the War of 1812 had ended, the Nation was accretion above the aboriginal 13 colonies, and there were few political conflicts. When re-elected in 1820, President James Monroe won all but one of the balloter votes in every state. Dozens of towns, cities and counties civic are called for Monroe.

The James Monroe Presidential $1 Coin is a Valentine to a abundant President," said Acting United States Mint Deputy Director Dan Shaver. We achievement that if humans absorb this coin, theyll bethink it was James Monroe who oversaw the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, who acclaimed himself as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and who served his Nation as a U.S. Senator, Minister to France and Spain and as Secretary of State and Secretary of War. James Monroe fabricated arresting contributions to our Nation."

The architecture of the James Monroe Presidential $1 Coin, like all of the Presidential $1 Coins, was created to be adventurous and dramatic. Edge-lettering draws absorption to the inscriptions, E Pluribus Unum" and In God We Trust," as able-bodied as the date and the excellent mark.

The antipode (heads side) of the James Monroe $1 Coin was advised and sculpted by United States Mint Medallic Artist Joseph Menna. The about-face (tails side) on all the Presidential $1 Coins is a arresting angel of the Statue of Liberty, advised and sculpted by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart.

To download an angel of the James Monroe Presidential $1 Coin, go to:
http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=photo#Pres