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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 42386, member: 824&quot;]You&#039;re right...1 vote for the SBA (<i>...go ahead...you can admit it...you voted for her didn&#039;t you, but are too embassed to admit it...it&#039;s okay to stand by your conviction.&nbsp; People here know I do!</i>) out of 26 already casted is proving my point while your argument is losing any validity. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are alot more people better suited for a dollar coin than SBA, who after all, only fought for the rights of women to vote.&nbsp; It is not like she laid her life on the line (as per our founding fathers with the ultimate act of treason).&nbsp; But, like anything else...we live in a PC world and we have to make everybody happy so we all can hold hands and sing together (in perfect harmony like the old Coke commerical).</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t necessarily want to go back to the old Liberty designs. I and others have suggested there are many ways to depict Lady Liberty as a symbol that represents ALL of America...21st Century Style so to speak.&nbsp; As for all of those symbols that seem to bother you, well...each of those symbols have meaning. If you really look at a Liberty coins, there is more symbolisn about than any other coin in the world!</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance that &quot;pole&quot; she carries comes from this background:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;The liberty cap is a soft, felt cap, sometimes hung on a pole and accompanying its (usually female) owner, sometimes capping the owner&#039;s head. The meaning behind the cap derives from its use before the Roman Empire, when similar felt caps were worn by liberated slaves of Troy and Asia Minor to cover their shorn heads; the cap therefore once &quot;symbolized emancipation from personal servitude rather than constitutional political liberty&quot;. The caps are sometimes referred to by their Latin name, pilleus liberatis, and they became a significant accessory for the French in depictions of the French Revolution.&nbsp; As for the pole, &quot;the cap was joined to the pole as a symbol of freedom when Salturnius conquered Rome in 263 B.C. where, in a burst of inspiration, he raised the cap on a pikestaff to show that the slaves who joined his fight would be freed&quot;.&nbsp; </i> </p><p><br /></p><p>Now that is just the pole.&nbsp; If you want, I can explain all of the other symbols in these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Start throwing every Tom, Dick, and Harry (the names of the tunnels in the Great Escape movie) on coins and you will create controversy.&nbsp; Throw a mug shot of SBA on a dollar coin that Reagan called the &quot;Carter-Quarter&quot;, and guess what...you will have failure written all other it.&nbsp; Lady Liberty or some depiction of her has always been revered and collected.&nbsp; It has past the test of time...and always will!</p><p><br /></p><p>Before you go forward, you need to understand and study the past.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7ECAP/PIX/libercaus.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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