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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 315350, member: 4626&quot;]This is definitely one of the anti-Jackson tokens lol... a pretty witty one at that.&nbsp; That&#039;s definitely a jackass, not a unicorn. At the time a jackass would symbolise someone who is very stubborn and not too bright.&nbsp; (The fact that it&#039;s runnning left probably signfies the assertion that Jackson&#039;s closing of the bank is a move backward, as the turtle carrying the treasure chest asserts that Jackson&#039;s policies have slowed economic progress.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Are also quite a few pro-Jackson tokens that actually supported Jackson closing down the US Bank.&nbsp; There were some people at the time that believed as Jackson did, that in the long run the US would be better off without it, and also many who placed the blame on the president of the US Bank, not on Jackson, for the money shortage (the president of the US Bank had called in all loans in protest of Jackson attempting to shut the US Bank down to try to force Jackson&#039;s hand.&nbsp; That did cause many to blame Jackson for the crisis, but it had the opposite intended effect for some also, as it caused many to blame the president of the bank for the crisis.&nbsp; Ultimately Jackson wasn&#039;t swayed by this stunt and he closed the bank down anyway.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Not much of a token collecter but I&#039;d love to acquire one of these lol... a great conversation piece.&nbsp; It seems modern political cartoons just don&#039;t put as much thought into political statements as tokens like this did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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