Simon Wiesenthal Coinage (US or Otherwise)

I would have preferred to see Louis and Clark on the coin rather than Sacajawea and the kid. But at least she and Lafayette were direct contributors to the nation. There certainly are many deserving folks around the world who have done great things. Mother Theresa comes to mind. But I'm not convinced they belong on US coinage.

 

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Yes, but Martin Luther King first.

 

I vote no. At least for US coinage. It would be more appropriate for him to be honored by an Austrian coin or commemorative.

Andy

 

I don't believe he was a US citizen, so no

 

I say no, besides we have too many comemms anyway.

 

Hmm, who would "we" be? The title of this topic does not suggest it is about US coinage only. Nor does the question in the poll ...

Christian

 

Guess I went a little overboard on my words, but I was just pertaining to the many commemorative coins on the market regardless of country of origin.

 

Hmmm - no matter what happens there will be those the do not want it and those that do. Me I will stay neutral in this case.

 

Little Update...

Should the hunt be given up, or continue on indefinitely...
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Hunt on for Nazi concentration camp doctor
Believed alive, Dr. Aribert Heim, 93, tops most wanted list of suspects
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24373158/
By DAVID RISING
Associated Press Writer

updated 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
As the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center prepares to publish its list of top fugitive Nazi war criminals Wednesday, the AP investigates the case of the concentration camp doctor who tops the most-wanted list.

BADEN-BADEN, Germany - Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man.

It was 1941, and an 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic with a foot inflammation. Heim asked him about himself and why he was he so fit. The young man said he had been a soccer player and swimmer.

Then, instead of treating the prisoner's foot, Heim anesthetized him, cut him open, castrated him, took apart one kidney and removed the second, Lotter said. The victim's head was removed and the flesh boiled off so that Heim could keep it on display....

 

A key point is that this dude is 93, if alive. Someday soon there will be no doubt... none of the Nazi war criminals will remain alive.

Interesting that no one talks about the Soviet genocide in Ukraine in the 1930s. At least 6 million (perhaps as many as 10 million) were intentionally starved to death... worse than the Holocaust, and yet played down.

 

If the mint has run out of ideas and has too much time on their hands, then go ahead, otherwise let Israel or Austria make a commemorative for him. Same can be said for Mother Teresa and Gandhi and a whole slew of non-American heroes for peace.