Take all the presidents off, and replace with Columbia/Liberty. This cult of personality business can stop.
No; that’s a throwback to pagan god(dess) worship.
Hear Hear!
That a figurative fasces is off the back is a good start though... It was blatant on Liberty (”Mercury”) dimes and still inherent on the Roosevelt as the bundled rod supported torch.
I found a mercury dime while detecting Altamont square in SF some years back, right as I was explaining to some Italian tourists what I was doing and when I showed them and they saw the back there were multiple exclamations of “OH! FASCES!!”
Agreed.