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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3572 

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration 

of the 225th anniversary of the establishment of the Nation’s first 

law enforcement agency, the United States Marshals Service. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 13, 2010 

Mrs. LINCOLN (for herself and Mr. PRYOR) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins 

in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of the establishment of the Nation’s first law enforcement agency, 

the United States Marshals Service. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States Mar5 shals Service 225th Anniversary Commemorative Coin 

6 Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

8 The Congress finds that— 


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1 (1) the United States Marshals Service, the 

2 first law enforcement agency in America, was estab3 lished under section 27 of the Act entitled ‘‘Chapter 

4 XX.—An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the 

5 United States’’ and enacted on September 24, 1789 

6 (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Judiciary Act of Sep7 tember 24, 1789’’), during the 1st Session of the 1st 

8 Congress, and was signed into law by the 1st Presi9 dent of the United States, George Washington; 

10 (2) George Washington had carefully considered 

11 the appointments to the Judicial branch long before 

12 the enactment of the Judiciary Act of September 24, 

13 1789, and appointed the first 13 United States Mar14 shals on September 26, 1789, 2 days after signing 

15 the Act into law; 

16 (3) the United States Marshals Service has had 

17 major significance in the history in the United 

18 States and has directly contributed to the safety and 

19 preservation of this Nation, by serving as an instru20 ment of civil authority used by all 3 branches of the 

21 United States Government; 

22 (4) one of the original 13 United States Mar23 shals, Robert Forsyth of Georgia, a 40-year-old vet24 eran of the Revolutionary War, was the first civilian 

25 official of the United States Government, and the 


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1 first of many United States Marshals and deputies 

2 to be killed in the line of duty when he was shot on 

3 January 11, 1794, while trying to serve civil process; 

4 (5) the United States Marshals Service Com5 memorative Coin will be the first commemorative 

6 coin to honor the United States Marshals Service; 

7 (6) in 2008, the United States Marshals Service 

8 established a 225th Anniversary Committee to en9 sure a suitable national observance of the United 

10 States Marshals Service 225th Anniversary, to take 

11 place on or about September 24, 2014, to support 

12 and facilitate marketing efforts for a commemorative 

13 coin and related activities for the United States 

14 Marshals Service 2014 observances; 

15 (7) a commemorative coin will bring national 

16 and international attention to the lasting legacy of 

17 this Nation’s oldest law enforcement agency; 

18 (8) the United States should pay tribute to the 

19 Nation’s oldest law enforcement agency, the United 

20 States Marshals Service, by minting and issuing 

21 commemorative coins in accordance with this Act; 

22 and 

23 (9) the proceeds from a surcharge on the sale 

24 of such commemorative coins will assist the financ25 ing of several national monuments, museums, and 


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1 charitable organizations, including the United States 

2 Marshals Service National Museum, the National 

3 Law Enforcement Museum and Memorial, and the 

4 Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 

5 SEC. 3. COIN SPECIFICATIONS. 

6 (a) DENOMINATIONS.—In commemoration of the 

7 225th anniversary of the establishment of the United 

8 States Marshals Service, the Secretary of the Treasury 

9 (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall 

10 mint and issue the following coins: 

11 (1) $5 GOLD COINS.—Not more than 142,000 

12 $5 gold coins, which shall— 

13 (A) weigh 33.931 grams; 

14 (B) have a diameter of 32.7 millimeters; 

15 and 

16 (C) contain 1 troy ounce of fine gold. 

17 (2) $1 SILVER COINS.—Not more than 503,000 

18 $1 coins of each of the designs specified in section 

19 4(a)(3)(B), which shall— 

20 (A) weigh 26.73 grams; 

21 (B) have a diameter of 1.500 inches; and 

22 (C) contain 90 percent silver and 10 per23 cent alloy. 


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1 (b) LEGAL TENDER.—The coins minted under this 

2 Act shall be legal tender, as provided in section 5103 of 

3 title 31, United States Code. 

4 (c) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 

5 5134 of title 31, United States Code, all coins minted 

6 under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 

7 (d) MINTAGE LEVEL COORDINATION.—Section 

8 5112(m)(2)(A) of title 31, United States Code, shall not 

9 apply to any mintage levels authorized under subsection 

10 (a). 

11 SEC. 4. DESIGN OF COINS. 

12 (a) DESIGN REQUIREMENTS.— 

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—The design of the coins 

14 minted under this Act shall be emblematic of the 

15 225 years of exemplary and unparalleled achieve16 ments of the United States Marshals Service. 

17 (2) DESIGNATION AND INSCRIPTIONS.—On 

18 each coin minted under this Act there shall be— 

19 (A) a designation of the value of the coin; 

20 (B) an inscription of the year ‘‘2014– 

21 2015’’; and 

22 (C) inscriptions of the words ‘‘Liberty’’, 

23 ‘‘In God We Trust’’, ‘‘United States of Amer24 ica’’, and ‘‘E Pluribus Unum’’, and such other 


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1 inscriptions as the Secretary may determine to 

2 be appropriate for the designs of the coins. 

3 (3) COIN IMAGES.— 

4 (A) $5 GOLD COINS.— 

5 (i) OBVERSE.—The obverse of the $5 

6 coins issued under this Act shall bear an 

7 image of the Marshals Services Star (also 

8 referred to as ‘‘America’s Star’’). 

9 (ii) REVERSE.—The reverse of the $5 

10 coins issued under this Act shall bear a de11 sign emblematic of the sacrifice and service 

12 of the men and women of the United 

13 States Marshals Service who lost their lives 

14 in the line of duty. 

15 (iii) EDGE INCUSION.—It is the sense 

16 of the Congress that, to the extent prac17 ticable, the edge of the $5 coins issued 

18 under this Act shall bear the motto of the 

19 United States Marshals Service ‘‘Justice, 

20 Integrity, Service’’. 

21 (iv) HIGH RELIEF.—The design and 

22 inscriptions on the obverse and reverse of 

23 the $5 coins issued under this Act shall be 

24 in high relief. 

25 (B) $1 SILVER COINS.— 


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1 (i) OBVERSE.—The obverse of the $1 

2 coins issued under this Act shall bear an 

3 image of the Marshals Services Star (also 

4 referred to as ‘‘America’s Star’’). 

5 (ii) EDGE INCUSION.—It is the sense 

6 of the Congress that, to the extent prac7 ticable, the edge of each $1 coin shall bear 

8 the motto of the United States Marshals 

9 Service ‘‘Justice, Integrity, Service’’. 

10 (4) REALISTIC AND HISTORICALLY ACCURATE

11 DEPICTIONS.—The images for the designs of coins 

12 issued under this Act shall be selected on the basis 

13 of the realism and historical accuracy of the images 

14 and on the extent to which the images are reminis15 cent of the dramatic and beautiful artwork on coins 

16 of the so-called ‘‘Golden Age of Coinage’’ in the 

17 United States, at the beginning of the Twentieth 

18 Century, with the participation of such noted sculp19 tors and medallic artists as James Earle Fraser, Au20 gustus Saint-Gaudens, Victor David Brenner, Ad21 olph A. Weinman, Charles E. Barber, and George T. 

22 Morgan. 

23 (b) SELECTION.—The design for the coins minted 

24 under this Act shall be— 


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1 (1) selected by the Secretary, after consultation 

2 with the Director of the United States Marshals 

3 Service, the Historian of the United States Marshals 

4 Service, and the Commission of Fine Arts; and 

5 (2) reviewed by— 

6 (A) the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee; 

7 and 

8 (B) the United States Marshals Service 

9 225th Anniversary Committee, a panel to be 

10 formed consisting of administrative and oper11 ational members of the United States Marshals 

12 Service, past or present. 

13 SEC. 5. ISSUANCE OF COINS. 

14 (a) QUALITY OF COINS.—Coins minted under this 

15 Act shall be issued in proof quality and uncirculated qual16 ity. 

17 (b) MINT FACILITY.—Only 1 facility of the United 

18 States Mint may be used to strike any particular combina19 tion of denomination and quality of the coins minted under 

20 this Act. 

21 (c) COMMENCEMENT OF ISSUANCE.—The Secretary 

22 may issue coins to the public minted under this Act begin23 ning on September 24, 2014, the 225th anniversary date 

24 of the United States Marshals Service, except for a limited 

25 number to be issued prior to such date to the Director 


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1 of the United States Marshals Service and employees of 

2 the Service for display and presentation during the 225th 

3 Anniversary celebration. Coins issued under this Act shall 

4 be treated as a coin program for calendar year 2015 for 

5 purposes of section 5112(m)(1) of title 31, United States 

6 Code. 

7 (d) TERMINATION OF MINTING AUTHORITY.—No 

8 coins may be minted under this Act after December 31, 

9 2015. 

10 SEC. 6. SALE OF COINS. 

11 (a) SALE PRICE.—The coins issued under this Act 

12 shall be sold by the Secretary at a price equal to the sum 

13 of— 

14 (1) the face value of the coins; 

15 (2) the surcharge provided in section 7(a) with 

16 respect to such coins; and 

17 (3) the cost of designing and issuing the coins 

18 (including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, 

19 overhead expenses, marketing, and shipping). 

20 (b) PREPAID ORDERS.— 

21 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall accept 

22 prepaid orders for the coins minted under this Act 

23 before the issuance of such coins. 


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1 (2) DISCOUNT.—Sale prices with respect to pre2 paid orders under paragraph (1) shall be at a rea3 sonable discount. 

4 (3) UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE EM5 PLOYEES.—To the extent possible, the Secretary 

6 shall make arrangements to ensure that current, 

7 former, and retired employees of the United States 

8 Marshals Service, names to be verified by the Direc9 tor thereof, or the designee thereof, have an exclu10 sive defined period of time to place prepaid orders 

11 under paragraph (1) at the same reasonable dis12 count referred to in paragraph (2). 

13 (c) PRESENTATION.—In addition to the issuance of 

14 coins under this Act in such other methods of presentation 

15 as the Secretary determines appropriate, the Secretary 

16 shall provide, as a sale option, a presentation case which 

17 displays the $5 gold and the $1 silver coins. The presen18 tation case should bear a depiction of the current badge 

19 of the United States Marshals Service. 

20 SEC. 7. SURCHARGES. 

21 (a) IN GENERAL.—All sales of coins minted under 

22 this Act shall include a surcharge as follows: 

23 (1) A surcharge of $35 per coin for the $5 gold 

24 coin. 


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1 (2) A surcharge of $10 per coin for the $1 sil2 ver coin. 

3 (b) DISTRIBUTION.—Subject to section 5134(f) of 

4 title 31, United States Code, all surcharges received by 

5 the Secretary from the sale of coins issued under this Act 

6 shall be promptly distributed as follows: 

7 (1) The first $5,000,000 available for distribu8 tion under this section to the Director of the United 

9 States Marshals Service National Museum located in 

10 Fort Smith, Arkansas, for the preservation, mainte11 nance, and display of artifacts and documents of the 

12 United States Marshals Service. 

13 (2) Of amounts available for distribution after 

14 the payment under paragraph (1)— 

15 (A) $1,000,000 to the National Center for 

16 Missing and Exploited Children located in 

17 Washington, DC; 

18 (B) $1,000,000 to the National Law En19 forcement Officers Memorial Fund located in 

20 Washington, DC, in support of the National 

21 Law Enforcement Museum and the National 

22 Law Enforcement Officers Memorial; 

23 (C) $1,000,000 to the Federal Law En24 forcement Officers Association; 


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1 (D) $500,000 to the William ‘‘Bill’’ Degan 

2 Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships 

3 for spouses and children of law enforcement of4 ficers killed in the line of duty; 

5 (E) $500,000 to the Robert D. May Schol6 arship Fund, which provides scholarships for 

7 spouses and children of law enforcement officer 

8 killed in the line of duty; 

9 (F) $500,000 to the Community Oriented 

10 Policing Service; and 

11 (G) $500,000 to the United States Mar12 shals Service Association, a charitable organiza13 tion under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal 

14 Revenue Code of 1986, located in Miami, Flor15 ida. 

16 (c) AUDITS.—All organizations, associations, and 

17 funds under this Act shall be subject to the audit require18 ments of section 5134(f)(2) of title 31, United States 

19 Code, with regard to the amounts received under sub20 section (b). 

21 (d) LIMITATION.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), 

22 no surcharge may be included with respect to the issuance 

23 under this Act of any coin during a calendar year if, as 

24 of the time of such issuance, the issuance of such coin 

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1 grams issued during such year to exceed the annual 2 

2 commemorative coin program issuance limitation under 

3 section 5112(m)(1) of title 31, United States Code (as in 

4 effect on the date of enactment of this Act). The Secretary 

5 may issue guidance to carry out this subsection. 

6 SEC. 8. BRONZE DUPLICATES. 

7 The Secretary may strike and sell bronze duplicates 

8 of the $5 gold coins authorized under this Act, at a price 

9 that the Secretary determines to be appropriate. 

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