Those two are beautiful coins. I think we should get politicians off the coins today and return to images of Lady Liberty and Native Indians.
Which is why I liked the Sacajawea design. It was return to both Liberty and Indians. I agree it’s time to remove presidents from our coinage.
Off the coins, and off our aircraft carriers.
The first politician to be on a coin was in 1909, 116 years after the first American coins. Second was in 1932, third in 1938, fourth in 1946, and fifth in 1964.
The duration of these coins has been very unusual - the cent hasn't changed in 114 years, the quarter in 91 years, the nickel in 85 years, the dime in 77 years, and the half dollar in 59 years. Such longevity in coin designs is unusual for the period 1793-1932, and it would be good to get all the politicians off the coinage and get back to Lady Liberty or historical figures.
Agreed. The tradition of having Lady Liberty (or some variation of such) on coinage goes back to ancient Greece. Empires and kingdoms had rulers on their coins. Republics and democracies used a national symbol or Lady Liberty (France, Switzerland, etc).
It’s not coincidental that Lady Liberty started to vanish from our coinage around the same time that it liberty started to vanish from our country.