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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 458011, member: 4381&quot;]I was thinking on the way home today that i hate the dead presidents on coins, and that the Flying Eagle Cent was really special...</p><p><br /></p><p>And many of the state quarter designs were interesting because the states had to find icon images of their state.&nbsp; Deleware comes to mind.&nbsp; Ohio, Wyoming etc.&nbsp; And the most special of all was the design of the Buffalo Nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>What made the Buffalo Nickel especially interesting was that at 1913 it combined two powerful and ancient symbols of the New World and America specifically, both of which we were driving to extinction.&nbsp; They were the Native American &quot;Indian&quot; and the Bison.&nbsp; This coin is quite unique in this regard and artistically, the work on Nickel with the minting process of the times, was a unique aesthetic design.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK - lets say we scrap the who current coinage and we want to use new iconic symbols for America.&nbsp; Not just the Statue of Liberty and the Eagle, but something even more connected to the heritage of America.&nbsp; What would we put on the coins without repeat tired ideas?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Its a tough question?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some ideas I had were as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>The Railroad</p><p>The Minuteman</p><p>Slave reverse: Free man Obverse</p><p>The California Condor</p><p>Tobacco --- No</p><p>The Brooklyn Bridge</p><p>The Golden Gate Bridge</p><p>A Beaver</p><p>A Paddleboat</p><p>Corn</p><p>The Twin Towers</p><p>The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington</p><p>The Bear, Grizzly</p><p>A Peddler</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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