First Spouse Gold Coin Program

The United States is honoring our Nation's first spouses by issuing one-half ounce $10 gold coins featuring their images, in the order that they served as first spouse. The United States Mint issues First Spouse Gold Coins on the same schedule as the Presidential $1 Coins issued honoring the presidents.

The 2008 First Spouse Gold Coins feature Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Andrew Jackson's Liberty, and Martin Van Buren's Liberty.

The First Spouse Gold Coin obverse features portraits of the Nation's first spouses, their names, the dates and order of their term as first spouse, the year of minting or issuance, "In God We Trust," and "Liberty." Each coin has a unique reverse design featuring an image emblematic of that spouse's life and work, as well as the inscriptions "The United States of America," "E Pluribus Unum," "$10," "1/2 oz." and ".9999 Fine Gold."

When a president served without a first spouse, as did Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, a gold coin is issued bearing an obverse image emblematic of Liberty as depicted on a circulating coin of that era and a reverse image emblematic of themes of that president's life.


Release #1
Year: 2007
Martha Washington

Release #2
Year: 2007
Abigail Adams

Release #3
Year: 2007
Jefferson's Liberty

Release #4
Year: 2007
Dolley Madison

Release #5
Year: 2008
Elizabeth Monroe

Release #6
Year: 2008
Louisa Adams

Release #7
Year: 2008
Jackson's Liberty

Release #8
Year: 2008
Van Buren's Liberty

Release #9
Year: 2009
Anna Harrison

Release #10
Year: 2009
Letitia Tyler

Release #10b
Year: 2009
Julia Tyler

Release #11
Year: 2009
Sarah Polk

Release #12
Year: 2009
Margaret Taylor

Release #13
Year: 2010
Abigail Fillmore

Release #14
Year: 2010
Jane Pierce

Release #15
Year: 2010
James Buchanan's Liberty

Release #16
Year: 2010
Mary Todd Lincoln

Release #17
Year: 2011
Eliza Johnson

Release #18
Year: 2011
Julia Grant

Release #19
Year: 2011
Lucy Hayes

Release #20
Year: 2011
Lucretia Garfield

Release #21
Year: 2012
Alice Paul

Release #22
Year: 2012
Frances Cleveland (first term)

Release #23
Year: 2012
Caroline Harrison

Release #24
Year: 2012
Frances Cleveland (second term)

Release #25
Year: 2013
Ida McKinley

Release #26
Year: 2013
Frances Edith Roosevelt

Release #27
Year: 2013
Helen Taft

Release #28
Year: 2013
Ellen Wilson

Release #28b
Year: 2013
Edith Wilson

Release #29
Year: 2014
Florence Harding

Release #30
Year: 2014
Grace Coolidge

Release #31
Year: 2014
Lou Hoover

Release #32
Year: 2014
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Release #33
Year: 2015
Elizabeth Truma

Release #34
Year: 2015
Mamie Eisenhower

Release #35
Year: 2015
Jacqueline Kennedy

Release #36
Year: 2015
Claudia Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson

Release #37
Year: 2016
Patricia Ryan "Pat" Nixon

Release #38
Year: 2016
Elizabeth Bloomer "Betty" Ford

Release #39
Year: 2016
Nancy Reagan


The United States Mint also produces and make available to the public bronze medal duplicates of the First Spouse Gold Coins.

Source: US Mint