Yes, I've already signed-up with the US Mint to pre-order the proof version of these coins for my collection.
Many people are not aware of a federal law that prohibits the depiction of a living person on any coin or stamp. Since Jimmy Carter is still alive, this is why there's a 'gap' in the Presidential Dollar series and why in the end, they will not have been issued in the order that the presidents held office.
There was a bit of a controversy when they issued the US stamps commemorating the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 and then again in 1994 on the 25th anniversary and then in 2019 for the 50th. The issue was that for the first two stamps, both Armstrong and Aldrin were still alive and when the last one was released, Buzz Aldrin was alive. The postal service got around the federal law by not showing the actual face of the astronaut on any of the stamps, they instead simply showed a reflection of the Moon's surface on the astronaut's face shield. They also didn't include the name tag on their space suits so you couldn't really tell which astronaut was being depicted, and since TWO people had walked on the Moon and only a single astronaut was ever shown on the stamps, this gave the Postal Service 'plausible deniability'.
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