WASHINGTON – New dollar coins featuring all 37 of the nation’s deceased presidents will begin rolling out of the U.S. Mint in 2007 under a bill Congress is sending to President Bush.

Lawmakers hope the coins – and an accompanying $10 gold piece for collectors featuring former first ladies – will be a big money-raiser for the government, like the 50-state quarter program.

They also hope the dollar pieces will rev up interest in the Sacagawea dollars, which have been little-used.

The quarter program had raked in roughly $4 billion in revenues by its midpoint, said Becky Bailey, a U.S. Mint spokeswoman.