Cassie McFarland To Sign NGC Labels

From Cassie McFarland to debating whether there is a law restricting the use of live people on coins. I am not an attorney and don't pretend to be, I can only rely on what I have read over the many years I have collected coins and what different people have told me. As a coincidence, I went to a coin club meeting last night and two of the members of the club are attorneys. They looked at the 1866 law and said that since coins have replaced fractional currency, then the law can then be interpreted to include coinage. In their opinion a living person can not be placed on either coins or currency.

That's why many feel the mint won't admit that the 1992 Olympic Commemorative has Nolan Ryan on it. Yet if you put the 1991 Fleer Nolan Ryan card next to it, it matches perfectly down to the folds in his uniform.



Congress makes the laws and then the courts decide what the laws intents are. I believe that the Congress believes that a living person should not appear on a coin. There was much debate over Eunice Shiver and there was debate over Nancy Regan, until her death made the problem go away. If there was no restriction against living persons, why did Congress debate the issue? Again, I repeat myself, why hasn't a living person appeared on a modern coin?

 

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That doesn't really mean anything, keyword they used was can. Regardless though lots of lawyers have lots of opinions on what a law could or should mean, but it's just that an opinion. They all have lost cases before.

Admitting that also just makes the mint look lazy and potentially may make them owe royalties to several parties.

 

Let's this end this discussion, we really did hijack this tread. It's obvious I'm not gong to convince you and you're not going to convince me. So lets just agree to disagree.