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Message:: [QUOTE="longnine009, post: 2656936, member: 1886"]No the general  public would not have understood the meaning of Miss Liberty.  I doubt that they knew or cared who SBA was either. They hated the coin most likely because it was too easily confused with a quarter. Coins are not struck for the amusement of coin collectors  but we're still the only ones who appreciate them. The public only wonders if they're  going to wear a hole in their dorko cargo shorts. Had they planned the SBA from the beginning it may have worked with coin collectors. She was a fighter. Who doesn't like someone who fights for their rights? How about people who are pissed off? IMO, the history of SBA was ignored from the start by coin collectors because of what we could have had and what we got. They showed us a bucket of ice cream and then gave us an apple:"Isn't it good? It has lots of fiber.""Yeah, bite it!" BTW, Carter was going to sign an executive order that all military personnel be paid with SBAs. How's that for PC thuggery? Thankfully he didn't. Guess someone told him military people aren't  issued little red wagons to lug sacks of SBAs around in. I like what SBA did.I hate the Carter quarter and always will.[/QUOTE]