I forgot to tell you in my last comments that there are two “errors” in your coin blog post on these two coins. The U.S. Mint introduced, in error, the Reagan $1 coin design actual Proof coin photo (not a mock-up drawing) on their website on January 20th in it’s plastic lens holder with the 2 other Presidential $1 Proof coins for Nixon & Ford. The 2016 3-coin Proof Presidential $1 coin set actual coin photos set there on the Mint’s website for all to see till Coin World newspaper readers alerted the CW staff that the Mint screwed up what was supposed to be a public unveiling on Saturday February 6 on President Reagan’s 105th birthday celebration in Simi Valley, California. The Mint then took down the coin photos from their website on January 20th without issuing an apology! I hear Nancy Reagan was upset to say the least after all the preparation for the special event she officially hosted with the Reagan Foundation on February 6th.
Also, you stated that the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (Jacob Jack Lew) picked the Reagan $1 presidential coin design & First Spouse Nancy Reagan $10 gold coin design, but this is also incorrect. U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin selected both of these great coin designs and followed Nancy Reagan’s choice of her personal favorite design candidates for both coins with minor revisions she insisted be on the final coin designs. Nancy Reagan is still a force to be reckoned with even in her 90s! G-d Bless Her Heart.
I really like the designs of both coins (the Mint’s design & sculpting professionals did a great job & kudos to them!) & I am glad First Lady Nancy Reagan appears on both the obverse & reverse of the 2016-W $10 First Spouse gold coins with her important drug abuse message from the 1980s still resonating in today’s culture of drug addiction.

-NumisDudeTX

I forgot to mention this politically incorrect thing you may have seen on television ads by Ron Reagan Jr. where he is raising money for his atheist non-profit organisation and he says “Ron Reagan Jr. here, lifelong atheist & not afraid of burning in Hell !” I bet he isn’t buying any of his father’s Presidential $1 coins since they have the required motto “In God We Trust” on them (as all USA legal tender coins do since the 1864 two-cent coins were issued)! His father is turning over in his grave at his presidential library & museum & resting place on the property there in beautiful Simi Valley, California! May President Ronald Wilson Reagan R.I.P. By the way, the motto “In God We Trust” which is on all U.S. coins since 1864 & all Federal Reserve Notes since Series 1957, is being challenged once again in U.S. Federal court. I wish this issue would be settled one way or the other for G-d’s sake! Lol

-NumisDudeTX

Too funny man! We should take our numismatic comedy shtick on the road Jp Lol. Politics & coins in the USA sure do make strange bedfellows to use an old term! LOL. At least the presidential $1 coin series is affordable on any budget for young collectors & beginning collectors since the 2007- 2011 coins were issued for circulation to banks & the 2012 coins through this last year (which were not made for circulation) can be purchased from the Mint in circulation quality in rolls, bags or boxes or from many coin dealers for like $1.75 or so making for a inexpensive set for beginning collectors to purchase. I think every school K-12 in the USA should have a set in their library collection for students to study & learn from. I donated a set to my old middle school & high school & the U.S. History teachers were so happy to have a tangible thing that the students could actually hold & visually inspect which I hear helps them learn the names & dates of the presidents easier than only reading about them in their history books.

Happy collecting everyone!

-NumisDudeTX

Well said PC comment I guess. Maybe some of the late President Reagan’s “trickle down economics” will trickle down upon us sometime soon. Preferably in a big “puddle” of his presidential dollar coins in my bank account!

-NumisDudeTX

LOL. You are as politically correct as Donald Trump! I guess you are going to “just say no” to purchasing any President Ronald Wilson Reagan $1 coins or the beautiful, historic First Lady Nancy Reagan $10 First Spouse gold coins (only the second living person to appear on any legal tender USA coin since Eunice Kennedy Shriver on the 1995 silver $1 coin & going back to some living men on the old commemorative silver half dollars). Although that Shriver coin portrait was a hideous, atrocious design (to borrow a description by President Theodore Roosevelt of the coins of his time!).

Happy collecting all !

-NumisDudeTX