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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1366834, member: 66&quot;]It goes back to out first President under the Constitution, George Washington.&nbsp; The Congress DID plan on putting his portrait and that of successive Presidents on the coins, but Washington put a stop to that idea.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; He also probably realized that it would cause problems trying to remove the presidents portrait from the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On circulating coins yes, but the first dead President to appear on a coin was George Washington on the Lafayette dollar in 1899.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That ONLY applies to the Presidental dollar coins and was specifically written into the legislation authorizing them.&nbsp; Oh but there was no such restriction written in for the First Ladies.&nbsp; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There were no hearing for an exception because there was no law to make an exception of.&nbsp; After Kennedy was assassinated it simply became &quot;obvious&quot; that he should be commemorated on a coin and the legislation to do so was introduced and passed with very little discussion.&nbsp; Roosevelt on the dime was basically the same thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes but Liberia commemorates everyone else&#039;s history etc because they really don&#039;t have much of their own.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agree to one?&nbsp; They haven&#039;t even submitted one for over three years.&nbsp; We&#039;ve been running on continuing resolutions since the 2009 budget expired in September of 2010.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He will be, on the President dollar coins sometime around 2016 I believe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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