Same reason that this chick isn't either:
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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I don’t think there has been any one except for whites and Indians on our coins.
Same reason that this chick isn't either:
The $50 is .9167
The $100 is .9999
We need a coin with both of them on it....
don’t forget the golds and silvers and the coppers...
They made platinum, steel and even glass
Nope. White kids are being assailed all over America for “cultural appropriation” if they have dreads.
‘course the steel one was a dude as opposed to a chick and the glass was an experiment- but a platinum woman was indeed offered by the Mint
Pass.
Probably sell for under spot.
“Other than the concepts and precepts of personal liberty as modernly understood have absolutely no connection to the african continent at all, and are purely a product of western civilization.”
You have a point and if it was merely about an academic discussion of political theory I would agree with you.
But the actual history of the United States isn’t simply about political theory, there are historical facts and one of those blindingly obvious facts is that for all the high-minded claims for liberty and freedom the founders of the nation (or at least a very sizable chunk of them) openly denied that freedom applied to fellow Americans based on their race.
You may claim that Africa and Africans added little of value to the concepts of liberty, and you might have a point, but the fact remains that Americans of African descent were very much part of the population of the United States and their enslavement amid a people claiming liberty for themselves is a historical fact.
The ancestors of most African Americans were living in the United States long before the ancestors of many Americans of western/European descent.
African Americans are very much part of the history of the United States going back before even the Declaration of Independence, they are part and parcel of the United States, they aren’t some kind of interlopers who arrived recently and decided to leech of a society they had no part in building, they were there (unwillingly) from the start and have been an integral part of the American story from the get go.
It’s a 1oz bullion coin. The current American Eagle will cost you around $1,200.
“The idea that Lady Liberty is a black woman isn’t new or unusual. Indeed, it’s not a great stretch at all to come to that conclusion.”
Couldn’t agree more.
There have been stars on coins in the US going back to at least the early 1800s.
I’ve never seen that coin. And I’ve been buying and losing gold coins for thirty years.
Because without a value it’s not official coinage. This way, it always has a value of $100 dollars.
Not that it will ever sell for that.
Thanks, I see that now. I was not aware of the .9999 coin. And my initial comment was a bit over the top.
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