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I did notice that as an extraordinary post. I thought maybe you were writing with the Cyrillic alphabet.

 

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Piers? I had a boat I used to keep tied to one. Cruise ships like them too. I don't know how they feel about coins though. It would be like talking to a brick wall.

 

In response to an earlier post about the Kennedy halves, I could be mistaken but Im pretty sure there indeed WAS an act of congress to allow for the coin, but for a different reason....Coins can't be changed for 25 years, but Franklin hadn't been on the half for 25 years yet, so Congress had to approve it. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

 

I'm betting on Barbara Bush as the first living person on an official mint coin.

 

Pretty sure you're right about that. I remember some controversy about that back then....

 

I don't think they had the law then. Maybe that's why they made the law

 

I remember discussions about the 25 year rule back then.

 

not to worry, we won't need them anyway. It's going to be an "amero" currency .

 

The 25year law was part of the Coinage Act of 1890 and yes that was why the Kennedy half required an Act of Congress to authorize it. As mentioned there is no general law forbidding the use of living persons on coins and the "two year rule" only applies to the President dollars, there is no such restriction on the first spouse coins, so living ex-first spouses can appear on them.