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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 21486, member: 57463&quot;]Metalman&#039;s point is also well made.&nbsp; We need to think about the reverses, as well.&nbsp; The Barber Dime kept the Wreath of Cereals from the Seated Series.&nbsp; We have a flock of eagles on our coins, enough wreaths for all occasions, one buffalo, and not much else.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have a lot of wildlife: bighorn sheep, long horn cattle,&nbsp; mountain lions, wolves, alligators...&nbsp; Buildings tend to be static and especially the neoclassical ones that sprout wherever we sow government.&nbsp; I failed J.S.G. Bogg&#039;s &quot;I.Q. Test&quot; because I could not tell the Supreme Court from the Treasury Building.&nbsp; The Guggenheim is distinctive.&nbsp; So are Falling Water and the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.&nbsp; However, they are privately owned images of private -- not public -- buildings.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We have bridges, but can you tell the Brooklyn Bridge from the Golden Gate?</p><p><br /></p><p>There are classic American aircraft: the Lockheed Constellation, the GeeBee Racer, and of course the Spirit of St. Louis, not to mention the space vehicles.&nbsp; The Shuttle is the most representative of them, perhaps.&nbsp; Aviation is quintessentially American.</p><p><br /></p><p>So are computers.&nbsp; The Isle of Man honored the PC about 1984 or so.&nbsp; Again, these are privately created machines, but the Macintosh, the PC, and the Cray are easy to identify from their pictures.&nbsp; A hologram of a large scale integrated chip looking like NYC from the air might be nice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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