[rellimpank]

-—I hope this stops before we have to have a “Muslim” woman on it-—suppose it would show her being stoned to death?

[BipolarBob]

How much will this $100 coin cost?

[Tanniker Smith]

Just curious, but is there a big market for $100 gold coins?

Not something I’ll likely own.

[PghBaldy]

They should aim for popularity among numismatists, so that people buy them!

[Ouderkirk]

Disgusting.....

It’s time to purge the government and all of the agencies of these racist pigs

[Antoninus]

She's pretty--and fierce. I have absolutely no problem with this.

[Leep]

with Liberty and Justice for all.

[bk1000]

Well, the current gold eagle is one ounce and stamped “fifty dollars”. One would then think this tribute coin would be two ounces. It would have to be, as TPTB seem to place such a high value on diversity. Plus, the diversity would be offended if it was a smaller coin than the white woman was on.

[RummyChick]

So uh...can Harriet Tubman be white on the new currency???

[castlegreyskull]

I bet the sales of the $100 gold coin will be much lower than last year.

[proud American in Canada]

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

Never had a $100 coin—did it traditionally have the Statue of Liberty on it?

[Xenodamus]

I would be interested to know the actual amount of gold in this coin? Of course it could be fake like everything else in this administration.

[Tax-chick]

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?

[mainevet]

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

[Leep]

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

[I want the USA back]

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

[misanthrope]

Ahh hell nahh!!

[ctdonath2]

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.

[ctdonath2]

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?

[MeganC]

No thank you.