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Liberty depicted as black woman on $100 gold coin
Associated Press ^
| Jan 13, 2017 8:44 AM EST
Posted on 01/13/2017 8:50:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Isn’t any figure on a gold coin like ... gold? It seems as if an attempt to depict a particular race or ethnicity would have to rely on some sort of stereotyped features or styling ... the very things we’re not supposed to associate with any particular race or ethnicity. Right?
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:02:22 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his deed." Pv. 19:17)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:02:36 AM PST
by
mainevet
(Get an M1911 or two or three or four... no nine!)
To: Xenodamus
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:03:06 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: bk1000
i looked it up: they’re one ounce coins as well.
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:03:14 AM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: BipolarBob
“How much will this $100 coin cost?”
A “$50” gold coin is 1oz of gold. Spot gold is about $1200/oz , so you’re looking at $2500 at least.
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:03:56 AM PST
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: PLMerite
Gee, that makes a lot of sense. What idiot would buy this?
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:05:07 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Olog-hai
BTW Is the year 1792 a reference to the French Revolution? and the “Liberty Tree”?
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:05:12 AM PST
by
Leep
(Stronger without her!)
To: bk1000
"Well, the current gold eagle is one ounce and stamped fifty dollars. "
Well ...
To: Leep
BTW Is the year 1792 a reference to the French Revolution? and the Liberty Tree?
Founding of the US Mint.
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:06:28 AM PST
by
Antoninus
("The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately." -Solzhenitsyn)
To: Olog-hai
When they show a muzzard I’m leaving the country.
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:06:55 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: proud American in Canada
“As long as they dont make one with a complete face-covering burka, its okay with me.”
There will be a series of ‘minorities’ depicted. Maybe with Trump in that won’t happen.
To: Antoninus
I know how many stars. Still and all, a crown of stars does have specific implications.
BTW, thanks for translating “Revelation” back into Greek.
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:09:06 AM PST
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:10:12 AM PST
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misanthrope
(Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
To: BipolarBob
I never got the full one once.
To: Olog-hai
So how, sanely, does the Mint reconcile the extreme disparity between the intrinsic value being so much higher than the face value? I know there was a must-win court case over an employer paying employees with such coins (”their pay is $50 week, so what if I pay them in $50 face-value gold coins?”), but the issue is still ripe for challenge up to SCOTUS.
At some point a government has to reconcile intrinsic-value coins with face-value denominations. Some variance is fine (other coins have a rough equivalence between face value and intrinsic value), but the orders-of-magnitude disparity expressed in gold coins is untenable.
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01/13/2017 9:12:17 AM PST
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ctdonath2
("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
To: bk1000
> Well, the current gold eagle is one ounce and stamped fifty dollars
Why do they stamp a denomination on it at all? Just stamp the weight and be done with it.
To: Olog-hai
I have no problem with the race depicted.
I do have a problem with the motivation for depiction being a relentless agitation of racial issues.
Every image on currency is there for a reason, usually of the subject being of great earned respect, or representing some aspirational ideal. Who is this woman? why is she on a coin of great value? what does she represent?
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:16:42 AM PST
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ctdonath2
("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:18:09 AM PST
by
MeganC
(Hate crime: The heinous act of disagreeing with a liberal.)
To: ctdonath2
At some point a government has to reconcile intrinsic-value coins with face-value denominations. Some variance is fine (other coins have a rough equivalence between face value and intrinsic value), but the orders-of-magnitude disparity expressed in gold coins is untenable. It also illustrates how far the government has gone in manipulating the real value of money.
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:18:43 AM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: BipolarBob
A thought:
Could the President issue an EO directing the Mint to sell their coins at face value?
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posted on
01/13/2017 9:19:26 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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