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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GeorgeM, post: 2139950, member: 28550&quot;]I like the design, but hate some of the history tangled up with it&#039;s creation. The sculptor and artist behind it was an active KKK member, for one thing. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of my friends recently made the statement that the South lost the war, but won the insurgency that followed (likening it to what&#039;s going on in Afghanistan and Iraq). I wanted to disagree, but they made some compelling arguments (citing the massacre of African-American occupation troops who were there to ensure fair elections during Reconstruction &amp; the way that most Civil War &quot;mourning&quot; monuments in the South look suspiciously like Victory monuments). </p><p><br /></p><p>Recently picked one of these up myself. </p><p><br /></p><p>While I think it&#039;s odd that the Stone Mountain Monument shows 3 heroes of the Confederacy &amp; this coin only shows 2, I can understand why the mint decided putting Jefferson Davis on a coin might be going too far. Besides, Mississippi had already put Jefferson Davis and John A. Quitman on a &quot;dollar&quot; in 1915 (HK408):</p><p><a href="http://www.so-calleddollars.com/Events/Panama_Pacific_Exposition.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.so-calleddollars.com/Events/Panama_Pacific_Exposition.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.so-calleddollars.com/Events/Panama_Pacific_Exposition.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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