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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2837981, member: 66&quot;]Nice article, but it is still incorrect about there being a law that forbids living persons appearing on the coinage.&nbsp; The 1866 law that everyone like to claim outlaws living persons on coins only refers to paper money.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Text from the law.</p><p><i>Provided</i>, That no portrait or likeness of any living person hereafter engraved, shall be placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes,fractional or postal currency of the United States.</p><p><br /></p><p>Source: Statutes at Large, volume 14 39th Congress Sess I Ch 28 Ch 29 page 25. (Page 57 of the PDF file from the Library of Congress.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than the specific restrictions in the authorizing legislations of the state quarter, ATB quarters, and President dollars I know of no other legislation that forbids living persons on the coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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