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To: screaminsunshine

“Sunnunu who gave us Souter?”

I think that was his father.

Well, if the Roman Empire had issued a commemorative series for Emperors they would have had to issue a Caligula coin. I suppose Buchanan wasn’t quite THAT bad.

Before the Lincoln penny we never used to put any actual people on our coins. We ought to go back to just Liberty.


19 posted on 08/21/2010 7:49:41 AM PDT by devere
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To: devere
All the Roman emperors issued coins with their own likenesses and legends on them, including Caligula (C. Caesar Augustus), and there are coins with Caligula's head on them in existence.

In the New Testament, when the Pharisees and Herodians ask Jesus about paying taxes to Caesar, that is, to the Roman emperor, he asks to be shown a denarius and then asks "Whose image and inscription is this?" and they have to reply, "Caesar's" (probably meaning either Tiberius, the reigning emperor, or his predecessor Augustus).

28 posted on 08/21/2010 8:21:40 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: devere
Before the Lincoln penny we never used to put any actual people on our coins. We ought to go back to just Liberty.

Traditionally we had either Liberty, or an male Indian on our coins. Ideally we would go back to that with Liberty on the penny, dime, half dollar. The Indian head would be on the nickel, quarter and dollar.

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34 posted on 08/21/2010 8:48:40 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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