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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 514418, member: 16510&quot;]<b>We did,,,</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Who and why did we decide to take lady liberty off our coins and put dead presidents and national Monuments on our coins.</b> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We did!&nbsp;&nbsp; Now before you&#039;all jump through the collective hoop at me I know it may not be either you or I or the other fellow but it is our nation, our laws, how leaders, our acceptance, our tolerance or intolerance<b> for</b> and/or <b>against</b> anything that really is our collective nation.&nbsp; </p><p>I mean isn&#039;t the central question not who or why decided but instead when did we start becoming complacent???</p><p>Now I know except for a few commemorative (or special bullion items) that there has not been a classic coin design since mid to late 1940&#039;s after Walking Libs. and Winged Liberty head dimes.&nbsp; But what I&#039;ve got to ask myself is - who did I write to????&nbsp; who did I complain to????&nbsp; who did I express my dissatisfaction to about these modern coin designs???&nbsp; What actual work have I done to affect modern coin designs?</p><p>Or did I (and yes I am guilty) just accept the status-quo, not say much, complain to all those around me but never through the correct channels, and not do much of anything????</p><p>Yes!! that is what I am guilty of!!!</p><p>I don&#039;t exactly know when we all ( at least me) became so complacent but we have - it is our nation, our leaders, our acceptance, our tolerance, our complaining a lot but taking little if any constructive actions to change our nation that is at fault - if we have these coin designs we are the ones that chose them, either through blind acceptance or through giving up.</p><p>The ones that are responsible are us.&nbsp; If we ever want a great nation like we had until about 1959 we got to get more involved and start pointing that collective finger at ourselves - <b>we are always responsible</b>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ben Peters[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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