"Remember the Ladies"

For the first time ever, the U.S. Mint is dedicating a series of 24-karat gold coins to former presidents' better halves, their First Ladies. They'll be available around Mother's Day at www.usmint.gov.

The designs for the four coins were unveiled before an 80-person audience at the National First Ladies' Library in Canton, Ohio, on December 19, 2006. They include portraits of Martha Washington, Abigail Adams and Dolley Madison. Since Thomas Jefferson's wife, Martha, died in 1782, 18 years before Jefferson was elected president, the third coin in the series carries a symbolic image of Liberty.