Could US currency with Trump’s signature become a collector’s item?

(NEXSTAR) – The Treasury Department announced last week that Donald Trump’s signature will soon appear on U.S. paper currency, framing it as an honor bestowed upon the president as part of the country’s semiquincentennial celebrations.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength and stability,” Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent claimed in a statement included with a Treasury Department press release. “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.”

A representative for the Treasury Department did not respond to a request for more information on when the bills might enter circulation, or how long the Treasury intends to print the notes. Reuters reported that the new bills would begin printing in the summer (starting with a $100 note), and could take weeks to enter circulation.

What’s known for certain is that new bills will mark the first to ever feature a sitting president’s signature, seeing as traditional currency bears the signatures of the Treasurer and Treasury Secretary, positions currently held........

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