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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1812285, member: 5233&quot;]This topic does come up from time to time and all of us &quot;coin people&quot; want the change.&nbsp; The problem is, once a President is on a coin...it&#039;s very hard to get him off.&nbsp; It takes an act of Congress and I think in some ways that for Congress to vote to remove someone from a coin it&#039;s almost their way of saying they don&#039;t agree with that person.&nbsp; Although none of the President&#039;s on the coins were perfect...regardless of our personal opinions, those few men are considered to be the &quot;better&quot; of our historical leaders.&nbsp; Because removing them would go against the common historical view of these people being &quot;great presidents&quot;&nbsp; it might be considered a political mistake to vote for their removal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps that is why there has never really been a President replaced on a coin.&nbsp; One could argue that by saying that Ike was replaced...but in a sense he wasn&#039;t.&nbsp; The traditional &quot;silver dollar&quot; was discontinued and the &quot;small dollar&quot; created.&nbsp; Most common people seem to think this is a different thing (even though neither contained silver and they are worth the same).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Although I would love to see our currency have depictions of Liberty, I believe that a Congressman voting to remove Lincoln, Jefferson, FDR, Washington, and Kennedy from their coins might be political suicide.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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