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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 363652, member: 4626&quot;]Native Americans were not considered to be native born US citizens until 1924... theoretically Sacagawea could have been naturalized, but I doubt she was.&nbsp; So no.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway there clearly isn&#039;t a restriction about putting non-US citizens on US coins... however, I think there&#039;s a more important point here:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think his citizenship status is an issue, but I fully agree with your second point, that someone significant from <i>our</i> nation&#039;s history should be honored instead...&nbsp; Wisenthal certaintly deserves to be honored, but US commemorative coins should be reserved for people and events significant to US history and culture specifically... brings me to my main point here...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, I&#039;ll bite, some of the recent commems:</p><p><br /></p><p>2008 Bald Eagle: Commemorates the bald eagle as a national symbol, 35th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, removal of the bald eagle from the endangered list</p><p><br /></p><p>2007 Little Rock:&nbsp; Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the admission of black students to Little Rock High School, ending segregation</p><p><br /></p><p>2007 Jamestown: 400th anniversary of the first British colonoy in North America</p><p><br /></p><p>2006 Ben Franklin: A pretty significant historic figure, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could go on, but it seems pretty clear that commemoratives are doing a good job of commemorating people and events that are significant <i>to the United States</i>.&nbsp; Now Simon Wisenthal is certaintly deserving of honors for what he did, but how is he especially significant in the context of United States history or culture?&nbsp; We are talking US coins here after all.&nbsp; I&#039;d say he deserves perhaps a commemorative medal but I wouldn&#039;t go so far as saying he should be on a US commemorative coin.&nbsp; Not trying to be US-centric or anything but it&#039;s only fair that a country&#039;s commemorative coinage stick to people and events that are significant to that country and not just the world at large.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m assuming the orginal question is asking whether Wisenthal should be commemorated on a <i>US</i> coin... to which I said no... but if Israel or Austria or some country to which Wisenthal was specifically signifcant to wants to honor him on their coinage, that I&#039;d fully support.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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