2015 (P) Presidential $1 Coin – John F Kennedy

This 2015 John F Kennedy Presidential $1 coin with circulating finishes and Philadelphia mint marks has never been placed into circulation.

These coins’ designs display large, dramatic artwork and edge-incused inscriptions of the year, “E PLURIBUS UNUM” and the mint mark.

Each coin bears a likeness of President Kennedy on the obverse and the Statue of Liberty on the reverse.  The inscriptions of the obverse of the 2015 John F Kennedy Presidential $1 Coin are:

“JOHN F. KENNEDY”

“IN GOD WE TRUST”

“35th PRESIDENT”

“1961-1963”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on 29th May 1917.  He enrolled at Harvard in 1940 and during his senior year, wrote his thesis on Great Britain's lack of readiness for war with Germany, which was later publised as "Why England Slept".

Despite numerous health problems, Kennedy joined the US Navy after graduation and went to the South Pacific, where he was injured when the patrol torpedo boat he commanded was rammed by an enemy warship.  Despite his injuries, Kennedy guided the surviving crew members to safety and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and a Purple Heart for his heroism.

The Democratic Party nominated Kennedy as its candidate for president in 1960.  He won the election by a small margin, becoming the youngest man elected president and the first Roman Catholic to hold the office.  Kennedy was in office less than three years when he was struck down by an assassin's bullet on 22nd November 1963.

Highlights of President Kennedy’s adminstration include the:

Launch of  the first American manned spaceflight - Freedom 7.

Bay of Pigs invasion - an attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Cuban Missile Crisis, the confrontation between the US and Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Establishment of  the Prace Corps.