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Message:: [QUOTE="Collecting Nut, post: 2195255, member: 74863"]The face of a President on a coin is not changing. What is changing is the image of Lady Liberty, once majestic, beautiful and powerful. Now frail, afraid, skinny and unattractive. If the government can change the public's image of what our country stands for through coinage, then we have less freedoms and a loss of our liberties. More and more things are appearing on coins than ever before. Events, groups, images of each state, attractions, causes, etc. are now commonplace on coins for circulation. They use to be confined to commemorative coins but no longer. By law the US Mint must show a profit. When you take $.05 cents of various metals, combine then and stamp any image desired, give it a domination, and call it a coin, they show a profit. It cost the taxpayers millions just to store Susan B. Anthony dollars in vaults. They were first issued in 1979 and we still have them in sealed mint bags. No one wants them. The size and weight are restrictive. But they can't be melted as it would show a loss and that's against the law. Unfortunately, as a country, we no longer have the strong beliefs that our founding father's established and died for. Our coinage proves that as does the belief in being "politically correct" in everything.[/QUOTE]