I heard rumors that the new bison nickle was pulled early because religious rights got all uppedy regarding the bison's anatomy... is this true or a rumor? If true, anybody got any information about it?
Don't listen to all you hear---there may be some people with probelms but none of them are sooo big that I think the Buff Nickel would make that big of fuss. Speedy
Doesn't much matter what the truth is - people will believe what they want to believe. It's been almost 100 yrs now and people still believe that the design of the Standing Liberty quarter was changed by legislation demanded by the religious groups in the US. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, it was changed, but it was a completely voluntary change.
These stories are true sometimes. The religious right associated Bush Jr. administration covered up depression-era nude statues in the Dept. of Justice building lobby in a prudish move. It does happen here.
I dont get why people complain so much. I mean, a huge percentage of people have pets, and those pets are not required to wear pants. You walk outside and see an animal, and you dont go complaining how you can see their "private" areas.
It didn't run a short time really---it ran its full time---and there are billions and few people see any way it will be worth anything. Speedy
Well, I certainly don't think that the depiction of the bison's "maleness" is enough to get anyone upset. Neither was the first design for the Standing Liberty Quarter. After all, classical artwork has always depicted nudity to some extent and there's nothing offensive about it. I don't know why people get so upset about nudity. We're all born nude, just the way nature intended. People, I believe, equate nudity to sexuality. They're two different things.
It's still a commonly repeated rumor, but there is no contemporary evidence that there was a significanty number of people offended to change the design. The earliest that rumor is even seen in print anywhere is 1929, 12 years after the design was changed. One would think if the design was so provocative that a movement existed to have it changed, it would have seen print somewhere closer to the actual time of the change. All evidence points to it being an explanation after the fact.
It ran for a "short" time as in 6 months instead of a year, but the actual production/mintage was high so they produced almost as many nickels in those six months as they would normally have produced in a full year of production. So the number of bison nickels is basicly no smaller thansay a 2002 nickel. Somewhere around three or four coins for every single man, woman, and child in the country. Now since only about 1% of those people acually WANT their coins then it means that there are about 400 coins available for every person who wants one. Does't sound like it has good potential to me.
