United States Mint Director Paul Hollis joined four former Mint directors in a new video celebrating America’s 250th anniversary and the role U.S. coinage has played in the nation’s history.
Featured with Hollis, the Mint’s 41st director, are David J. Ryder, who served as the 34th and 39th director; Philip N. Diehl, the 35th director; Henrietta Holsman Fore, the 37th director; and Edmund C. Moy, the 38th director.
Hollis noted that the Mint has produced circulating coinage for 234 years, supporting trade and commerce while using coins to reflect the country’s evolving ideals, symbols and national identity.
"Mint history is American history," the video states. It highlights Liberty, the heraldic eagle and inscriptions such as E PLURIBUS UNUM and IN GOD WE TRUST, along with founding fathers, stars, shields, torches and national monuments featured on modern U.S. coins.
The participating directors thanked Americans for entrusting the Mint with producing the nation’s coinage and emphasized its domestic roots.
"Our coins are made by Americans in America and for America," Moy said.
Hollis closed by encouraging the public to search for, collect and share the one-year-only 2026 circulating coins, whose designs trace the nation’s road to independence.
"Happy 250th anniversary, America," he said.
