News: Presidential Coins on The Horizon
From YahooNews:
U.S. Mint to unveil presidential coins
WASHINGTON - Can George Washington and Thomas Jefferson succeed where Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea failed? The U.S. Mint is hoping America’s presidents will win acceptance, finally, for the maligned dollar coin.
The public will get the chance to decide starting in February when the first of the new coins, bearing the image of the first president, is introduced.
Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison are scheduled to grace the coin in 2007, with a different president appearing every three months.
The series will honor four different presidents per year, in the order they served in office. Each president will appear on only one coin, except for Grover Cleveland, who will be on two because he was the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms. To be depicted on a coin, a president must have been dead for at least two years.
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Graham — On 11-20-2006 at 4:59 pm
Has anyone else noticed that to go with the erosion of our civil liberties, they have REMOVED the word LIBERTY from the proposed $1 coins?? Sure, there is a picture of a French made statue, that is supposed to REPRESENT Liberty, but the actual, concrete, example of Liberty, the word itself, that is on every other circulating US coin, is GONE? I think I smell conspiracy!
****** *********** — On 9-2-2008 at 4:08 pm
why is “in god we trust” not on it anymore?