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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

The U.S. Mint has unveiled a commemorative $100 gold coin that features an image of Liberty as a black woman.

The 2017 American Liberty 225th Anniversary Gold Coin shows the woman’s head in profile with a crown of stars. […]

The mint says it’s the first in a series of 24-karat gold that will also depict Liberty in designs representing Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Indian-Americans. …

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: anniversary; blacks; blackwoman; coins; currency; diversity; diversityshmiversity; gold; goldcoin; liberty; politicalcorrectness; usmint
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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?


21 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)
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To: Olog-hai

one ounce, .9999 pure gold - https://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index1847.html?action=press_release&id=1847


22 posted on 01/13/2017 9:02:36 AM PST by mainevet (Get an M1911 or two or three or four... no nine!)
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To: Xenodamus

Good question.


23 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.)
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To: bk1000

i looked it up: they’re one ounce coins as well.


24 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!)
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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.


25 posted on 01/13/2017 9:03:56 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: PLMerite

Gee, that makes a lot of sense. What idiot would buy this?


26 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.)
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To: Olog-hai

BTW Is the year 1792 a reference to the French Revolution? and the “Liberty Tree”?


27 posted on 01/13/2017 9:05:12 AM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: bk1000
"Well, the current gold eagle is one ounce and stamped “fifty dollars”. "

Well ...


28 posted on 01/13/2017 9:06:01 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: Leep
BTW Is the year 1792 a reference to the French Revolution? and the “Liberty Tree”?

Founding of the US Mint.
29 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)
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To: Olog-hai

When they show a muzzard I’m leaving the country.


30 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.)
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To: proud American in Canada

“As long as they don’t make one with a complete face-covering burka, it’s okay with me.”

There will be a series of ‘minorities’ depicted. Maybe with Trump in that won’t happen.


31 posted on 01/13/2017 9:07:11 AM PST by TexasGator
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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.


32 posted on 01/13/2017 9:09:06 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Ahh hell nahh!!


33 posted on 01/13/2017 9:10:12 AM PST by misanthrope (Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
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To: BipolarBob

I never got the full one once.


34 posted on 01/13/2017 9:10:32 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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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.


35 posted on 01/13/2017 9:12:17 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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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.


36 posted on 01/13/2017 9:16:19 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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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?


37 posted on 01/13/2017 9:16:42 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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To: Olog-hai

No thank you.


38 posted on 01/13/2017 9:18:09 AM PST by MeganC (Hate crime: The heinous act of disagreeing with a liberal.)
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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.

39 posted on 01/13/2017 9:18:43 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: BipolarBob

A thought:

Could the President issue an EO directing the Mint to sell their coins at face value?


40 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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