MANCHESTER, N.H. —

WMUR'S partners at PolitiFact are taking a look at whether the Trump administration could legally put President Donald Trump's image on a U.S. coin.

U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach posted a mock-up showing Trump on a dollar coin commemorating the nation's 250th anniversary. The coin features the words "Fight Fight Fight" along the perimeter.

In 1866, Congress passed a law prohibiting the portrait or likeness of a living person on "bonds, securities, notes, fractional or postal currency of the United States," but the law doesn't mention coins.

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PolitiFact says putting Trump on a coin would likely be legal, though experts tell note a longstanding U.S. tradition of not depicting living pe

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