CONGRESSIONAL SMALL SIZE DOLLAR LEGISLATION |
Below are summaries of important small size dollar legislation and links to the original text. Please note that in most of the cases below, the text is of the "original" bill. Bills often go through many changes before becoming law. A perfect example is the "Dollar Coin Act of 1997". The original bill called for a dollar depicting the Statue of Liberty. Before it was finished, it became the Sacagawea Dollar. To do further in-depth research of these bills and to track them from the original bill through to the finished product, visit Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet, a service of the Library of Congress.
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Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cease regular production of one-dollar Federal Reserve notes by a specified date (except for such quantities as are required to meet collectors' needs). Mandates that the
seigniorage of the new one-dollar coins be used to offset
the reverse seigniorage resulting from the destruction of
Susan B. Anthony dollar coins in Government storage. |
Amends Federal law to mandate that the dollar coin shall: (1) be golden in color, have a distinctive edge, with tactile and visual features making it readily discernible; (2) be minted and fabricated in the United States; and (3) have similar metallic anticounterfeiting properties as U.S. clad coinage in circulation on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary
to continue to mint and issue $1 coins bearing the
likeness of Susan B. Anthony if the supply of such coins
is depleted before production of the coins depicting the
Statue of Liberty has begun. |
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