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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2320274, member: 71510&quot;]After reading many of his works and biographies, somehow I don&#039;t find him on a gold coin, I disagree with the &quot;strong serious portrait&quot; picture and I don&#039;t see him being on a US coin as something he would have wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a bit shocked at this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would have thought first - a silver coin.&nbsp; Mark Twain didn&#039;t even exist until his stint in Nevada.&nbsp; He has much stronger ties to silver and Virginia City and the silver rush than he ever had to gold.&nbsp; He was actually a silver miner in the Comstock area, and wrote about it several times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second - I see him as more of a comedic nay-sayer rather than a strong serious portrait shown in the picture.&nbsp; And the paddle-boat was a weak attempt to link him to a single story.&nbsp; The portrait used makes him look closer to Carl Marx than Sam Clemens.</p><p><br /></p><p>But hey, the government has been taught to have fun &quot;whitewashing&quot; history.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After all, it isn&#039;t even his real name.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only thing that does seem to belong on that coin are the initials along the back of his neck.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider this one of the US Mint&#039;s ill-thought failures.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe just revenge for all of the news articles and stories he wrote bringing to light the shortcomings of the mint and it&#039;s management.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess they have replaced his silver life with gold-gilt fiction.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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