2010 Presidential $1 Dollar Coin Proof Set Available

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2010 Presidential $1 Dollar Coin Proof SetThe United States Mint began selling the 2010 Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at noon ET for the price of $15.95.

The Presidential Dollar Proof Set has now approached its fourth year of issue, with the first set released in 2007 when the $1 coin series began. The 2010 issue price is $1 more than last year.

The annual 4-coin proof collection has proven to be popular with collectors, although the circulating $1 coin versions have had less success with a public who mostly prefers using dollar bills. The latest US Mint sales figures indicate 622,391 of the 2009-dated sets — which were taken off sale with the release of the new sets — have been sold.

Each of the presidential coins has a common reverse while the obverse, or heads side, bears a portrait honoring a past President. The 2010 set includes four presidential proof coins featuring:

  • Millard Fillmore – 13th President, sculpted and designed by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart.  

  • Franklin Pierce – 14th President, designed by United States Mint Artistic Infusion Program Master Designer Susan Gamble and sculpted by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Charles Vickers. 

  • James Buchanan – 15th President, designed and sculpted by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Phebe Hemphill. 

  • Abraham Lincoln – 16th President, sculpted and designed by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart.  

With the inclusion of the popular Lincoln coin, this year’s set sales are expected to top those from 2009.

The Mint provides the following proof coin description:

 

The term "proof" refers to a manufacturing process in which specially treated coin blanks are struck multiple times with specially polished dies to create a brilliant, sharp relief and mirror-like background.  A frosted, sculpted foreground gives the proof coin a special "cameo" effect. 

 

These coins bear the "S" mint mark, denoting they were struck at the United States Mint at San Francisco. The mint mark is inscribed on each coin’s edge, along with "E PLURIBUS UNUM" and "2010".

Presidential $1 Coin Proof Set price and order information

The set is priced at $15.95, plus $4.95 for shipping and handling. The Mint indicates that there are no order limits in place. They may be purchased online through the Mint page:

Presidential $1 Coin Products – click through to any of the 2010-dated offerings.

Or by calling 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468).  Hearing- and speech-impaired customers with TTY equipment may call 1-888-321-MINT (6468).

Presidential Dollar release schedule

The presidential dollars are part of a multi-year program that was authorized by the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-145) and features four new obverse designs annually. 

The 2010 Presidential $1 Coin Designs were released in December. The Millard Fillmore Presidential $1 Coin will begin circulating in public change on February 18. The remaining dollars are scheduled for circulation release on May 20, August 19 and November 18. (See $1 release dates for additional information.)

The series is scheduled to go through at least to year 2016, with the following coins by year:

Schedule and release order for each Presidential $1 Coin

2007 1
George Washington
1789-1797 2008 5
James Monroe
1817-1825
2
John Adams
1797-1801 6
John Quincy Adams
1825-1829
3
Thomas Jefferson
1801-1809 7
Andrew Jackson
1829-1837
4
James Madison
1809-1817 8
Martin Van Buren
1837-1841
2009 9
William Henry Harrison
1841 2010 13
Millard Fillmore
1850-1853
10
John Tyler
1841-1845 14
Franklin Pierce
1853-1857
11
James K. Polk
1845-1849 15
James Buchanan
1857-1861
12
Zachary Taylor
1849-1850 16
Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865
2011 17
Andrew Johnson
1865-1869 2012 21
Chester A. Arthur
1881-1885
18
Ulysses S. Grant
1869-1877 22
Grover Cleveland
1885-1889
19
Rutherford B. Hayes
1877-1881 23
Benjamin Harrison
1889-1893
20
James A. Garfield
1881 24
Grover Cleveland
1893-1897
2013 25
William McKinley
1897-1901 2014 29
Warren Harding
1921-1923
26
Theodore Roosevelt
1901-1909 30
Calvin Coolidge
1923-1929
27
William Howard Taft
1909-1913 31
Herbert Hoover
1929-1933
28
Woodrow Wilson
1913-1921 32
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933-1945
2015 33
Harry S. Truman
1945-1953 2016 37
Richard M. Nixon
1969-1974
34
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1953-1961 38
Gerald Ford
1974-1977
35
John F. Kennedy
1961-1963
36
Lyndon B. Johnson
1963-1969
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E.R.

I received 25 sets of the 2010 Presidential Dollar Proof Sets on Feb. 19th. Most of the Lincoln coins had bumpy, bubbly surfaces on the field. All of the display cases were full of dust, lint, debris and particles. I will be returning all 25. These were the worst looking proof coins I have ever received from the US Mint.

Andre van Biljon

Hi,

What metal are the Presidential $1 Coin Proof Sets mints made of?

Regards, Andre

dumbusername

The $1Presidential proof set is made from the following materials:
Copper with manganese brass clad (copper 88.5%, zinc 6%, manganese 3.5%, nickel 2%)