The last of the 2009 editions of the First Spouse Gold Coins was released on December 3, 2009. The First Spouse Coins were part of the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005. It was signed by President Bush on December 22, 2005. It called for coins to be made of .9999 pure [...]

The First Spouse Gold Coin Program from the United States Mint created a unique idea for the exceptions when there was a President who served his term in the White House without a First Spouse.  This exception was applied to the creation of  the Thomas Jefferson edition, who had lost his beloved wife Martha in 1782, nineteen years prior [...]