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