Living Presidents on our coins?

By a scary coincidence... Ford wound up in the hospital today... just a severe cold though apparently.

 

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Lol, to be completly honest, I thought he was already dead! I never really heard anything about him though...I was born way after his time, and he is 92 already... lol

But back on subject. I think that every president deserves to be honored equally whether they are dead or alive, reguardless of their accomplishments. They deserve equal honoring on the coin, and if they are dead or alive shouldn't be a factor in this series.

 

While I don't like many of the former presidents [Yes, I know that this is political, but since this has to do with COINS with them on it, it's germaine] if you're going to do it do it right. Remember, Ford, Carter and Bush Sr. are all very OLD, by the time the thing is over they're going to be DEAD, {or maybe not, they may all live to be 100 for all we know}

In the ancients section, someone asked why there were so many ancient coins. Well, the coppers were to some extent used as propaganda, minting being the only form of printing known back then.

I'm glad they're changing the Jefferson portrait, and I"m looking forward to the new 2009 quarter, but this is a bit much.

 

New 2009 quarter?

Not that I've heard. Only thing I've heard about 2009 and the quarter is another bill in the house......


H. R. 3885
To provide for a circulating quarter dollar coin program to honor the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.

 

If I read things correctly the House voted on and approved the senate version of the bill and its on its way to the President for his signature.

House Vote 624: Dec 13, 2005 (109th Congress)
This information comes from the U.S. House website, an official source for voting records.

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: S 1047 To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of each of the Nation’s past President and their spouses, respectively, to improve circulation of the $1 coin, to create a new bullion coin, and for other purposes -- Passed


Ayes: 291 (67%)
Nays: 113 (26%)
Not Voting: 29 (7%)
Required: 2/3
Just made it.

So that would mean no living Presidents will be honored. The first coins are scheduled for Jan 2007 so the mint has its work cut out for it.

 

Well, no matter how we feel about the series it looks like congress is going ahead anyway, imagine that! I only wish they could do 10 presidents a year and not drag this thing out like the drip drip drip of the statehood quarters over 10+ years!
Can't wait for those Pierce, Van Buren or Hayes Dollars!

 

Reminds me of that great skit they performed on the Simpsons:

"We are the mediocre presidents, you won't find our faces on dollars or on cents, there's Fillmore, there's Tyler, there's Rutherford B. Hayes, there's William Henry Harrison, I died in thirty days!"

Except now, they will be on dollars, rofl...

 

They are saying that the gold companion bullion coin for the President's first ladies would be just the image of Liberty and a theme of the President's tenure for those people who were not married.
Now I know that T. Jefferson was a widower when he became President, but he had been married. Would this apply to him, and if it did, what would you expect to find on the companion coin as a "theme". He was the one who developed the hand shake as a replacement for the bow as used in europe. He was also the first President to order a wine celler put in the white house. so, how about to guys shaking hands and holding a bottle of wine in the other hand.
Who else served as President and wasn't married?

 

Only others I can think of are Chester A. Arthur, the only president who was never married, either before or after he served office; and Andrew Jackson, who was married at the time of his election, but his wife Rachel died before he was sworn into office. Woodrow Wilson had the opposite situation as Jackson... he wasn't married when elected or sworn in, but he got married while in the White House, the only president to have ever done so.

Really hope Rachel Jackson rates a coin... she deserves it. She was a huge part of Jackson's life and it's her memory that really drove him as a president. If I can only afford to buy one of the first lady coins, this would be the one I'd be sure to get.

When Andrew Jackson moved into the White House in 1837, he planted a tree there in her memory. Sadly, this tree was killed and had to be torn down when someone crashed a plane into it in 1993. Was a big news event at the time (though the tree wasn't mentioned much) because of the supposed lapse in security over Washington D.C. airspace, but Clinton wasn't at the White House at the time.

 

Hillary would also be on two coins.

 

in the case
5 of President Chester Alan Arthur, by
6 a design incorporating the name and
7 likeness of Alice Paul, a leading strat-
8 egist in the suffrage movement, who
9 was instrumental in gaining women
10 the right to vote upon the adoption of
11 the 19th amendment and thus the
12 ability to participate in the election of
13 future Presidents, and who was born
14 on January 11, 1885, during the term
15 of President Arthur; and
16 ``(ii) the reverse of such bullion coin
17 shall be of a design representative of
18 themes of such President, except that in
19 the case of the bullion coin referred to in
20 clause (i)(II) the reverse of such coin shall
21 be representative of the suffrage move-
22 ment.

 

Ay! You forgot the ever popular James Buchanan. I was stationed in PA near Mercersburg and rented an apartment on US RT 16 (Buchanan Trail East) asked my new coworkers who Buchanan was? Obviously this man made an impression on me in US history class.
He was the only US president to never have been married! The only thing as president he is famous for!
Chester Arthur was married to Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur.
Here is a good web site http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

Hey, at least just talk about these coins is sparked interest in history so maybe its a good thing!

 

This would probably be a big surprise to Mrs Arthur.

Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur

She died the year before Chester took office.

 

i loathe the faces of presidents on coins. enough said. :computer:

 

Sorry, she died before Andrew took office so his first spouse coin will have a depiction of Liberty on it from the 1829 - 1837 era coinage.