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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2123642, member: 66&quot;]There IS NO GENERAL LAW forbidding portraying a living person on coins.&nbsp; There are SPECIFIC laws that forbid it on specific series.&nbsp; There was one for the State Quarters, and there was the one for the President dollars that required them to be dead for two years before they could appear.&nbsp; The law mentioned in the OP <b>ONLY</b> applies to currency.&nbsp; It was the Act of April 7, 1866,&nbsp; It was part of an appropriations bill and it states</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Source:&nbsp; Statutes at Large, volume 14&nbsp;&nbsp; 39th Congress Sess I&nbsp; Ch 28 Ch 29&nbsp; page 25.&nbsp; (Page 57 of the PDF file from the Library of Congress.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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