At first it seemed so preposterous it had to be fake news. A new dollar coin with Donald Trump's face on one side and on the other Trump again, fisted raised in front of the Stars and Stripes, surrounded by the words FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

But this wasn't fake news. Last week, the US Treasury confirmed it was planning to release the coin to mark the 250 th anniversary of American independence.

"No fake news here," posted US Treasurer Brandon Beach on X. "These first drafts honoring America's 250th Birthday and @POTUS are real."

There's nothing new about living rulers with outsized egos putting their likenesses on coins. The ancient Persians did it, the Macedonians too. The Greeks followed suit followed by Julius Caesar, not long before he was assassinated. And, of course, our own coins ha

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