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The Presidential dollars being offered on this page are all in Choice Brilliant Uncirculated condition, taken as they come, from original bank wrapped rolls. However, because of the two-step process (see Minting process below) the Mint uses to produce these coins it is not uncommon to see some light abrasions on the rim of the coin which is caused by the second step in the minting process and the excessive handling the coins receive.

Presidential Dollar Minting Process

The edge-incused inscriptions "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum" are spelled out around the edge, in addition to the date of minting and the mintmark. The edge lettering is being applied randomly with regard to whether it faces up or down on the business strike coins, after the coins are struck. The business strike coins are fed through a vacuum-like device that sucks them up into the edge lettering prep machine, which lines them up in whichever way the coins happen to enter the process (heads up or down.) Then the coins roll through a device that inscribes the edge lettering. It is expected that in the end, heads-up edge lettering should be about equal in number to coins which receive "tails-up" edge lettering.