2012 Presidential $1 Coin - 21st President - Chester Arthur
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Description
The U.S. Mint is honoring our nation's Presidents with a magnificent series of $1 circulating coins. Beginning in 2007, the Mint is issuing four Presidential $1 coins each year, in the order the Presidents held office.
These impressive coins feature larger, more dramatic artwork – the obverse depicts an official image of the President and the reverse of each coin bears a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty.
Each historic Brilliant Uncirculated coin in this collection can be ordered individually. You can choose coins from either the Philadelphia Mint or the Denver Mint.
Each historic Brilliant Uncirculated coin in this collection can be ordered individually. You can choose coins from either the Philadelphia Mint or the Denver Mint.
Chester A. Arthur became 21st President of the United States upon the assassination of President James Garfield, just 7 months into his term.
While practicing law in New York City in the mid-1850s, Arthur quickly rose in the city’s Republican political machine. After holding the powerful post of New York Customhouse Collector from 1871 to 1878, he was nominated Vice President in 1880. After Garfield’s assassination in 1881, he found himself in the Executive Mansion. As President, he signed the Pendleton Act into law, worked for tariff revision and oversaw the creation of the Civil Service Commission. He presided over the rebirth of the United States Navy but was criticized for failing to alleviate the federal budget surplus that had been accumulating since the end of the American Civil War.
Suffering from poor health, Arthur retired at the close of his term. He earned praise among contemporaries for his solid performance in office. As journalist Alexander McClure later wrote, “No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe.”
SPECIFICATIONS
Issuing Country: United States
Year: 2012
Face value: $1
Weight: 8.100 g
Diameter: 26.49 mm
Quality: Brilliant Uncirculated
Quick Overview
The U.S. Mint is honoring our nation's Presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served.
The Mint will issue four Presidential $1 coins per year and each will have a reverse design featuring a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty. These coins feature larger, more dramatic artwork.
Chester A. Arthur became 21st President of the United States upon the assassination of President James Garfield, just 7 months into his term.
While practicing law in New York City in the mid-1850s, Arthur quickly rose in the city’s Republican political machine. After holding the powerful post of New York Customhouse Collector from 1871 to 1878, he was nominated Vice President in 1880. After Garfield’s assassination in 1881, he found himself in the Executive Mansion. As President, he signed the Pendleton Act into law, worked for tariff revision and oversaw the creation of the Civil Service Commission. He presided over the rebirth of the United States Navy but was criticized for failing to alleviate the federal budget surplus that had been accumulating since the end of the American Civil War.
Suffering from poor health, Arthur retired at the close of his term. He earned praise among contemporaries for his solid performance in office. As journalist Alexander McClure later wrote, “No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe.”
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