Tails design for 2018 Native American dollar coin

Bless you Brother........

 

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As a collector of Sacs this does not leave a good taste in my mouth but it is sadly allowed by law. We should only do groups and achievements of native Indians NOT just the achievements of one person.

I had to relook up the law and it is allowed:
"110th Congress
An Act To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue coins in commemoration of Native Americans and the important contributions made by Indian tribes
and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE."

 

@green18 Hey I know when your righter than me.

 

It’s sad that an avid collector of a series has to be so disappointed by what they have to collect.
Sorry for that.
Sincerely,
Reed

 

So he should not be there after all. He was a good athlete who had his Olympic medals taken away for playing football professionally. What did he do to help develop the US or its history?

 

I agree. There should have been a lot of things left for them to do before starting on the single person

 

I ain't 'righter' than no one.......but you expressed your opinion, and I did mine. That makes us Brothers...........both at opposition and agreement.......

 

My first instinct is to not like the subject matter because I feel it should be older "topics", but I thought the Mohawk Ironworkers earlier in the series was a good concept and I liked it. I thought I had heard there was talk of a Native American astronaut design as a possibility also - that would also interest me as something more "current". But I agree with Blackbeard as far as the general limits to the topic.

 

The space one is 2019

 

Who?

And also... they still make these?

 

Bad subject for that coin

 

Yes, every year they're released by the mint to collectors only, just like the Kennedy halves, and when the series was still active, the Presidential dollars....

 

Thorpe's medals were stripped for playing minor league baseball.
I think they were reinstated to his family later, but that was a shameful disgrace by the Olympics.
I can't even watch them now as it is all pro athletes. What's the point?

 

Yes his medals were restored posthumously.

If you are going to use Jim Thorpe as the subject, I do think this design is a good one. Or at least better than most of the designs they have come up with in recent years.

 

He was an amazing athlete and I’d rather see him on a dollar coin than Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill.

 

Thorpe was a great native