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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmbdii, post: 4540, member: 655&quot;]I suppose that they could claim the Peace dollar&nbsp; depiction of Lady Liberty, but we had Lady Liberty on our coins when France was a fledgling republic with royal blood still staining the cobblestones of Paris.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Did you know that the image commonly called &quot;indian head&quot; on the pennies&nbsp; is actually a depiction of Lady Liberty in a Plains indian headdress?&nbsp; The Flowing Hair, Capped Bust, Draped Bust,&nbsp;&nbsp; Seated, Standing, and Walking Liberty designs as well as the &quot;mercury&quot; and all the Barber heads are different faces of the same American spirit.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; How our national ideal of Liberty was supplanted by &quot;freedom&quot; with a lower case &#039;f&#039; has to do with how our republican union of States became a legislative democracy with the states relegated to the status of political subdivisions in a central government put in place in defiance of the design contained in the Constitution.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Anyway, the hobby of collecting US coins is, in part, a study of history.&nbsp; Studying that history eventually leads to taking a good look at what happened to us as a nation and as a people as the coinage changed.&nbsp; The change from solid, stable precious metal coinage to wildly inflated and unstable fiat money can be tracked by changes in the coinage.&nbsp; The trouble started with the Lincoln penny and that is the one piece of coinage which has remianed the most nearly constant in design as all the other coins were changed to images of presidents such as we have now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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