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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26590662, member: 4626&quot;]I was debating whether to include that or not but the insistence that it was just supposed to be <i>a</i> baseball player, and not any specific baseball player in particular, made it not count in my book.&nbsp; All of the ones I did include, were definitely meant to be the people depicted (even if Buzz Aldrin is somewhat of a stretch, there&#039;s no denying that technically Aldrin is in the picture that was the basis of the design).&nbsp; And yes the resemblance is strong, but the designer denied that was the basis of the design, and none of the materials claim it was meant to be Nolan Ryan (who was still alive in 1992 and is in fact still alive as of now).</p><p><br /></p><p>I also don&#039;t count the Sacajawea dollar even though at a time Wikipedia did (I fought a lot with Wikipedia editors over that one lol; the claim that it was the first woman depicted on a coin while still alive was contradicted by their own articles!), since the model for Sacajawea was still alive in 2000 (and is still alive as of now), because if models counted almost every coin is based on a living person; several portraits on coins depicting Liberty or some other generic figure were modeled after someone.&nbsp; I decided it only &quot;counts&quot; if the portrait is not just based on a real person, but is meant to be seen as the real person that was the basis of the design.&nbsp; That model was meant to be seen as Sacajawea, not herself.&nbsp; (Besides which even if she counted, she still wouldn&#039;t be the first woman, since Eunice Shriver beat her to being on a coin by 5 years.)&nbsp; Side note: we don&#039;t in fact know what Sacajawea actually looked like, because there&#039;s not a single portrait confirmed to be made of her, while she was still alive, by someone confirmed to actually have seen her.&nbsp; The Sacajawea dollar is at best a guess (the model was from her tribe, and about her age she was on the Lewis &amp; Clark expedition, wearing clothes she likely would have worn.&nbsp; So it&#039;s plausible Sacajawea somewhat resembled that, but we have no idea what her specific facial features looked like).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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