dead presidents on coins

I'm sure he'd like to be dictator for life. After all, there are 57 states (ahem freudian slip), and he knows what's best for everyone else.

Coin or currency with a living President on it is vulgar. We're not a banana republic, yet.

 

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There were specific laws that prevented it at one time. There was a time were Portraits of living people was highly discouraged, either by precedent or law, all together. You really want a coin with a sitting or living President on it?

 

What would we have done if "Emperor" Tricky Dick had been on our money?

 

You are not alone. However, it is congress and not so much the mint that force feeds the quarter series and other coin designs on the public. Being a stamp collector also, I do like the variety of coins as they can be educational in a way. But, unlike the 50 states, the act in congress for the national parks lacked the clause allowing banks to receive bricks of them without any handling charge from the Fed. The Parks will never achieve the popularity that the 50 States did because of this. The Fools on the Hill continue with their S.O.P. as they never seem to get anything 100% right (or anywhere close in some cases).

 

an his buddy egghead

 

Hey! I liked Egg-Head.......

 

It goes back to out first President under the Constitution, George Washington. The Congress DID plan on putting his portrait and that of successive Presidents on the coins, but Washington put a stop to that idea. The President is not a Monarch or a Ruler to be portrayed on the coinage, he is a servant of the people and only a temporary holder of the office and Washington firmly believed that they should not have their portraits on the coins. He also probably realized that it would cause problems trying to remove the presidents portrait from the coins.

On circulating coins yes, but the first dead President to appear on a coin was George Washington on the Lafayette dollar in 1899.

There is a law that forbids the portrayal of a living person on the paper currency but there is no general prohibition of putting a living person on a coin.

That ONLY applies to the Presidental dollar coins and was specifically written into the legislation authorizing them. Oh but there was no such restriction written in for the First Ladies. So if Carter was to die within the next two years we have the potential of having two living first ladies on the First Spouse gold coins.

There were no hearing for an exception because there was no law to make an exception of. After Kennedy was assassinated it simply became "obvious" that he should be commemorated on a coin and the legislation to do so was introduced and passed with very little discussion. Roosevelt on the dime was basically the same thing.

Yes but Liberia commemorates everyone else's history etc because they really don't have much of their own.

Agree to one? They haven't even submitted one for over three years. We've been running on continuing resolutions since the 2009 budget expired in September of 2010.

He will be, on the President dollar coins sometime around 2016 I believe.

 

Actually, I hate the Washington head on the state quarters. I am also not much for most of the designs on them. But, to each their own.

 

I thought the Presidential dollar has been canceled.

 

We need to get back to the classic designs...Lady Liberty and the American Eagle!

 

Hey, that's a great Idea, probably since she's 90 now, we can have her on a coin within 10 or so years. Let's get the ball rolling and petition a change on our quarters so the front no longer has a stupid looking head of washington, but rather this wonderful rendition of a laughing Betty White with a somewhat taken-aback looking eagle. Then for the reverse we can have another eagle.

 

They are no longer being made for circulation but will continue to be made to meet collector demand - just like Kennedy Halves. So if you want any you won't be able to get them from the bank at face value; instead you will have to order them from the Mint at a premium.

 

Technically that is incorrect.



But I think we all knew that you meant coins designed for commerce, not commemoratives.

 

Now THAT'S a Beautiful coin!! :bow:

Btw...our Founding Father's sure had some prodigious proboscises.

 

Now where have I heard that before???

Oh, yeah. Post #33 above.

 

If we have current presidents on the current coinage, we might as well have a facepalm dollar coin.

 

Rhinophyma?

 

Ugh! I was gonna post a pic...but I would rather not!

 

Oops, forgot to read the rest of the thread, just shot that off as soon as I saw it.

BTW, I miss the Zero Mostel avatar. Any chance of a throwback?

 

I'll put it in the loop just for you.