People across the U.S. will soon be able to see President Donald Trump’s signature on money and his portrait on a $1 coin, raising questions about whether Trump’s picture violates federal law prohibiting living presidents from being featured on money.

To commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, the U.S. Mint is issuing $1 coins featuring Trump’s face, which the administration insists is allowed under a 2020 law that gives the Treasury secretary the authority to issue $1 coins “with designs emblematic of the U.S. semiquincentennial.”

The coins feature Trump’s current presidential portrait, though the design was not the one recommended by the president’s hand-picked U.S. Commission of Fine Arts board; the Treasury secretary has the final say.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose signature will also be featured on money, showed off the changes on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday and argued that it was legal to feature Trump on a coin.

“As Treasury secretary, I only have two mandates: the currency has to say ‘In God We Trust’ somewhere on it and there cannot be an image of a living person,” Bessent said. “During the 150th, there was a Calvin Coolidge coin, so we can put living people’s images on a coin.”

The Independent has asked the Treasury Department for comment

Bessent showed off $100 bills on Watters’ show Monday evening. Trump’s signature appears small in the bottom left-hand side corner just above Bessent’s signature.

The Trump administration has been pushing to feature Trump on money using the justification that it marks America’s 250th.

Putting the president’s signature on paper money appears to be one way around a federal law that prohibits featuring living people on money.

But the administration has argued that the president can be featured on the $1 coins under the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, which gives Bessent the authority to issue $1 coins for one year starting January 2026.

The commemorative coin featuring Coolidge was issued while he was president in 1926 to mark America’s 150th anniversary; however, they were controversial and most were later melted, the Washington Post reported.

The Commission of Fine Arts reviewed several front-and-back design options for the $1coin in January. The board members initially recommended a side profile portrait of Trump to be featured on the front.

During the January meeting, Megan Sullivan, the acting chief of the U.S. Mint’s office of design management, assured board members that “legal research from both the Mint and the Department of the Treasury determined that the proposed coin would not violate any laws and is legal under the law authorizing the minting of coins for the Sesquicentennial.”

The $1 coins are separate from the 24-karat gold coins, which feature a different image of Trump.