Editing Abigail Adams (section)

===Portrait on currency===
The [[Presidential $1 Coin Program#First Spouse Program|First Spouse Program]] under the [[Presidential $1 Coin Program]] authorizes the [[United States Mint]] to issue half-[[Troy ounce|ounce]] $10 [[Presidential $1 Coin Program#First Spouse Program|gold coins]] and bronze medal duplicates<ref>U.S. Mint: [http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/firstSpouse/ First Spouse Program] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070107215648/http://www.usmint.gov/mint%255Fprograms/firstSpouse/ |date=January 7, 2007 }}. Accessed June 27, 2008. "The United States Mint also produces and make available to the public bronze medal duplicates of the First Spouse Gold Coins".</ref> to honor the first spouses of the United States. The Abigail Adams coin was released on June 19, 2007, and sold out in just hours. She is pictured on the back of the coin writing her most famous letter to John Adams. In February 2009 ''[[Coin World]]'' reported that some 2007 Abigail Adams medals were struck using the reverse from the 2008 [[Louisa Adams]] medal, apparently by mistake.<ref name=mule>{{cite journal |last= Gilkes |first= Paul |date= February 16, 2009 |title=First Spouse medals set holds Adams mule |journal=Coin World |volume= 50 |issue= 2549 |page= 1 |quote= Some collectors have begun receiving a First Spouse medal mule – a piece bearing the obverse for Abigail Adams and a reverse intended for the Louisa Adams medal. The mules surfaced in some of the 2007 First Spouse sets}}</ref> These pieces, called [[mule (coin)|mules]], were contained within the 2007 First Spouse medal set.<ref name="mule"/> The U.S. Mint has not released an estimate of how many mules were made.

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File:Abigail Adams First Spouse Coin obverse.jpg|Obverse
File:Adams a-o.jpg|Obverse (bronze medal)
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