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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 645294, member: 19065&quot;]at <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/members/mattjw/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/members/mattjw/">MattJW</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Why are so many people against past presidents and political figures on our money?&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Boring subject matter for many despite those personages contributions to the nation and history. Once the dead (not just past) presidents are on coins and currency, they become irreplaceable national symbols and that&#039;s a rather rigid limitation to coin and currency design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also the figure is not senseless nor ficticious, as LIBERTY is an allegorical symbol. It&#039;s not a Roman goddess that is used on US coinage, but if that&#039;s what you see it is due to past revivals of Greek and Roman symbols and culture once widely embraced in revivalist movements of art, architecture and design as well as a throwback to models used to style the US democracy and ideals upon.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Lets slap Lady Liberty on every coin and bill because she drafted the Declaration of Independence, freed the slaves, brought this country through World War II, etc.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>LIBERTY is a representation of all of the above without pointing to any one man, woman, race, movement, legislation, document or whatever.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;It makes no sense to me why people feel that way.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Because you haven&#039;t fully thought out how others understand and perceive it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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