2010 Presidential Dollar Coin Proof Set

2010 Presidential Dollar Coin Proof Set - Click to Enlarge

Released by the United States Mint on February 11, 2010, the 2010 Presidential Dollar Coin Proof Set is the fourth year in which a proof set was created to showcase the four presidential coins released in that year.

The series launched in 2007 and honors the former Presidents of the United States with a coin struck with their image. The coins are issued in the order upon which the president served.

Making the 2010 collection perhaps more unique than the previous years is the fact that a coin honoring the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, is included in it. Many around the world have long had a fascination with Lincoln and so demand for this set may be higher than the demand seen for previous years sets.

Price for the 2010 set is listed at $15.95, a one dollar increase over what the Mint charged for the 2009 set.

Each coin is struck to proof quality which the Mint explains this way:

"Proof coins are extraordinarily brilliant, with sharp relief and a mirror-like background. Their frosted, sculpted foregrounds give them a special cameo effect," the US Mint explains on the set's product page. "Proof blanks are specially treated, polished and cleaned to ensure high quality strikes. The blanks are then fed into presses fitted with specially polished dies and struck at least twice to ensure sharp relief."

The dollars featured within the 2010 Presidential proof set include:

2010 Proof Presidential Dollars (uncirculated coins shown)- Click to Enlarge

• Millard Fillmore Presidential $1 Coin - 13th President, with the coin sculpted and designed by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart. 

• Franklin Pierce Presidential $1 Coin - 14th President, with a portrait designed by United States Mint Artistic Infusion Program Artist Susan Gamble.

• James Buchanan Presidential $1 Coin - 15th President, with a design by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Phebe Hemphill. 

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential $1 Coin - 16th President, with the $1 coin designed and sculpted by United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver Don Everhart.  

Each has a common reverse (tails side) of the Statue of Liberty, designed and sculpted by Don Everhart.

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