Liberty appears on the obverse of the 2026 America250 dime.
The design presents Liberty as a symbolic female figure facing the danger of tyranny, linking the coin to the Revolutionary-era language and ideals associated with American independence. An eagle carrying arrows appears as part of the imagery connected with the struggle for independence.
This is a major visual change from the Roosevelt dime, whose obverse normally shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The special 2026 design was authorized as part of the temporary semiquincentennial coin program and was intended to circulate during the anniversary year.
Liberty is not a historical person who signed the Declaration of Independence. On U.S. coins, Liberty is an allegorical representation of freedom and the republic. That distinction helps separate the dime’s symbolic figure from named historical figures shown on other American coins.