Depicts a portrait of John Adams surrounded by the inscriptions.

John Adams (1735–1826) was the second president of the United States (1797–1801). Adams was the first U.S. president to reside in the executive mansion that eventually became known as the White House.

Designers: Joel Iskowitz (JI) and Charles Vickers (CLV)

Depicts a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty, a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York City, in the United States. The Statue is the work of sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who enlisted the assistance of engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower.

The Statue of Liberty was completed in 1884 in France and shipped to the United States in June 1885, having been disassembled into 350 individual pieces that were packed in over 200 crates for the transatlantic voyage. In four months’ time, it was re-assembled in New York Harbor, standing just over 151 feet from the top of the statue’s base to the tip of the torch her right hand holds high above the waters of New York Harbor.

Originally intended as a gift to celebrate the American Centennial in 1876, the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States as a symbol of the friendship forged between the new American government and the government of France during the American Revolutionary War.

Designer: Don Everhart (DE)

Inscribed along the edge of the coin is the year of minting or issuance of the coin, the mint mark, and also the legends "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum". E Pluribus Unum — Latin for "Out of many, one" — is a phrase on the Seal of the United States. Never codified by law, E Pluribus Unum was considered a de facto motto of the United States until 1956 when the United States Congress passed an act (H. J. Resolution 396), adopting "In God We Trust" as the official motto.

Washington and John Adams were the first 2 to come out and there was an error on some of those coins. They didn’t receive the lettering on the edge — known as the plain edge presidential dollar.

Position A: edge lettering reads upside-down when the president's portrait faces up.
Position B: edge lettering reads normally when the president's portrait faces up.