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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dpoole, post: 633859, member: 19103&quot;]I honestly think that if the Prez, Sac and Native American dollars actually circulated, there would be much more interest, and much more appreciation of the designs. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I honestly don&#039;t think they&#039;re intrinsically ugly. The problem is that the Mint is forced to keep puking them out, to a non-receptive and dsinterested public because Congress doesn&#039;t have the cajones to save the taxpayer money and discontinue the paper dollar. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Inertia is a powerful force in politics, and the Congress just doesn&#039;t have any motivation to take on the two weeks of the outraged .001% of American Letters to the Editor writers who&#039;d expressed outrage that we were substituting dollar bills with coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As far as intrinsically unappealing designs, I&#039;d have to agree with the Big Head coins, like Ikes and Kennedys, and, of course, the poor and unlamented SBAs.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And to counter an earlier expression of taste, I LOVE the look of the Plats.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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