Treasury Special Police Officer Robert Shoemaker looks at thousands of John Adams dollars as they come off the minting press at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. For a slide show, click here Special Reports. ADAMS DOLLAR - MAKING A MINT: With new coin, John Adams gets his due
LOCAL NEWS ADAMS DOLLAR - MAKING A MINT: With new coin, John Adams gets his due Charles Vickers, an engraver at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, holds the plaster cast image of John Adams used to make the new dollar coin, part of the Mint’s Presidential Coin series. The Adams dollar will be released in May. (GREG DERR/The Patriot Ledger) By LANE LAMBERT
The Patriot Ledger
PHILADELPHIA - Would John Adams ever have imagined he’d be remembered this way - his face on a $1 coin, cascading from collection chutes like Las Vegas slot machine tokens?
In a cavernous production plant in Philadelphia’s Old City section, the U.S. Mint is busily turning out millions of the Adams dollars, as the agency gets ready to spotlight the nation’s second chief executive and Braintree native in its new Presidential Coins program.
The Mint launched the series in February with a George Washington coin. The Adams coin will be released on May 18, to be followed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison this summer and fall.
This is the first time Adams has been honored with a regularly circulating coin or paper currency. He appeared on a 2-cent postage stamp in the late 1930s and the ’40s.
For that reason, officials at the Adams National Historical Park are looking forward to the coin’s appearance - and Adams’ new role as pocket change.
Like the Lincoln penny and the Jefferson nickel, ‘‘This will bring John Adams into people’s lives in a new way,’’ said the park’s assistant superintendent, Caroline Keinath.
The presidential coin program is scheduled to run at least through 2016, when coins for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford will be issued. No living current or former presidents will be included in the series.
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Treasury Special Police Officer Robert Shoemaker looks at thousands of John Adams dollars as they come off the minting press at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. For a slide show, click here Special Reports. 
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