Posted on 12/14/2005 5:04:09 AM PST by billorites
Well that is kind of cool
I just wish Reagan was on one but with that two year requirement i am not sure if that will happen.
i have all the state quarters released thus far yes i know i am a geek
Once again the Senate is busy on the CRITICAL issues of our time..
And Frist doesn't have time for tax relief, Alito, etc.
Is Bill Clinton going to be on the two dollar or three dollar bill?
Either way, won't be able to stop him from humping the Susan B. Anthony coin.
Our paper, The Virginian Pilot, (a fourth rate editorial staff apparently still in high school judging from its writing) leads the story thus:
"Sacagawea, make room for dead presidents"
No agenda there, no siree. What a stupid headline.
If Ronaldus Maximus were on the dollar coin, I would use it. Chances are, the clowns who brought us the Susan B. Anthony flop will opt for LBJ instead. Clueless.
Although I like the idea of getting a little creative with the currency, I hate the idea that we're going to "honor" each and every past president. Why do we have to treat them all equally? They are not all worthy of such honor. To me, it diminishes the honor to put Reagan on the same plateau as, say, William Henry Harrison.
But then again, I'm a crank.
Jefferson is already on the two
His coin will be of tin with little horns on the edge.
I doubt the $10 gold coin will retail for $10. Ten bucks of gold is not very big.
This gives Bill a dilemma- how badly does he want to get on that coin?
It's like a $38 tax on collectors.... :-)
They have an almost even number of Republicans and Democrats. A couple of Presidents are hard to assign--Tyler was elected as a Whig Vice President but was more of a Democrat, and Andrew Johnson was elected with Lincoln in 1864 but was more of a Democrat.
Other Democrats: Jackson, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Cleveland (twice), Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ.
Republicans: Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, B. Harrison, McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan.
This would be fine if they could be just a bit larger in diameter or thicker so folks won't mistake them for quarters.
Sure Reagan would get a coin, they're doing four presidents a year not all at once, we'd see his in like 2015 or so.
Man there's a dilemma for Bill Clinton, huh -- how badly does he want to be memorialized in a coin. Well he has like eleven years (or would it be nine) to think about it.
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Cool i would love to get some Reagan coins then give them to Liberals at Christmas he he
Hillary on a coin! Avert your eyes!!
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