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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom Maringer, post: 177366, member: 7033&quot;]It was my understanding that George Washington himself signed the original coinage law that specified that all United States coinage SHALL HAVE on the obverse an allegorical figure of Liberty. And so we did... until Teddy Roosevelt cast that law aside and approved the Lincoln cent. The intent of the original law was specifically to AVOID having humans portrayed on coins because of the monarchial flavour of that depiction. It was a deliberate BREAK with the numismatic past of Europe. The U.S. was to be founded on PRINCIPLES not on the deification of individuals. Master engraver Ron Landis of Gallery Mint championed a return to the original law, and offered his Concept Dollar design to the mint in place of the Sacagewea. I agree! Let&#039;s go back to the Lady! Poor George is probably rolling in his grave to have been placed on the quarter dollar all these years... in DIRECT contravention of his strongly expressed views on the matter!!!! </p><p><br /></p><p>And while we&#039;re at it... dump Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill. As the architect of the Indian Removal Act he is regarded by many as an ethnic cleanser right up there with Hilter, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Milosovich. It is an affront to every native American alive to honor that man on our currency. It is no secret to people in other countries that we thus honor our most traitorous president, and it does not help our poor reputation for arrogance and ethnocentrism that we&#039;ve recently gained with the rest of the world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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