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WOULD A MOTHER THERESA COIN BE A NICE U.S COIN?

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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Naw. MOTHER THERESA coins have been around for 300 years.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • gemseekergemseeker Posts: 276 ✭
    Dog97- Are you referring to Maria Theresa (Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) when you referred to coins over 300 years old? Mother Theresa of Calcutta is not the same person.
    This brings up the question, why would the US put Mother Theresa on a coin? She has never lived in the US, was not born here (but in Albania), and her daughters of charity that worked here only formed after her mission first was established in India. She doesn't qualify to be on a US coin. If you were to nominate someone in the US religious past to be on a coin, Elizabeth Ann Seton or Frances Xavier Cabrini, would be more logical choices.

    Maria Theresa's image already is minted on coinage from the Austro-Hungarian empire of the 1700's. She, by the way, was the mother of Marie Antoinette.
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  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    NO! shes a Catholic leader so they would need to have a musilum and a jewish person on a coin to
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  • KlectorKidKlectorKid Posts: 3,723
    really bad idea
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  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    How about me on a coin?image Hey, at least it would be a good looking coin.image


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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Oooops!! MOTHER THERESA- I'm not a Catholic so I don't know the difference between Maria Theresa and her mother.
    Mother Theresa has been around for 300 years too so the answer is still no.
    How bout something fresh like Pamala Sue Anderson on a new Bust Dollar?
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    A bust dollar with Pamela Anderson?image Never would happen.

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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    How bout a Bust Half then, just her top ½?
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • MrLeeMrLee Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭
    Bad Dog! Bad Dog!
  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    Pam Anderson would be a perfect bust dollar model!image Now the only issue is if we really want a girl with fake ones on there................ How about Dolly Pardon? All natural!imageimage


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  • DCAMFranklinDCAMFranklin Posts: 2,862 ✭✭
    Cameron-
    That would have to be a BIG coin! Glad you recommended the dollar.
  • gemseekergemseeker Posts: 276 ✭
    Dog97 - You STILL got it wrong! Mother Theresa of Calcutta died a couple of years ago. Maria Theresa died over 300 years ago. Mother Theresa worked in the Calcutta India slums for her missionary work. Maria Theresa of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had 16 kids (among them Marie Antoinette of the guillotine fame). One was Austrian and the other was Albanian, so I could see how you might get them mixed up. One easy way to distinguish between the two Theresas is that Maria Theresa WAS NOT a virgin, but Mother Theresa was. image
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    For the Morgan collectors - The Morgan and Peace encyclopedia by Van Allen and Mallis

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  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    When I went on a tour through Versailles palace, they said that it took 6 or 7 guillotine strikes to completely sever her head.


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  • gemseekergemseeker Posts: 276 ✭
    Littlewicher - I got a book about the French Revolution and it says that when some of the people were beheaded, the eyes were blinking as the head was pulled out to show to the crowds.
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  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    I saw a picture of Mother Theresa one time and she looked like she was 300 years old!
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Gemseeker--
    Infact, there is a little known case where in the French Revolution the Marquis de Kincoin was beheaded, and to this very day, his disembodied head is still babbling incoherently.



    Edited to add: sorry, Pat. Just couldn't resist.

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  • stujoestujoe Posts: 1,510
    Pamela Anderson on a BUst Half? Just what the world needs...more fake Bust Halves. image
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  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    The Secret Service would have to examine each and every one of those "fake" bust halves.imageimage I wonder if the Secret Service has any positions open right now?image


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  • a2labmoma2labmom Posts: 1,623
    not a fake Bust half, more like a fake Bust whole image
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  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    She probably has butt implants also.image


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  • a2labmoma2labmom Posts: 1,623
    are you even old enough to be talking/typing/thinking like that? imageimage (I bet you're right, though.)
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  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    Hey, I'm 15!image Trust me, I think about stuff a lot worse then that...................image


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    -Laura Swenson

    In memory of BL, SM, and KG. 16 and forever young, rest in peace.
  • KINCOINKINCOIN Posts: 320 ✭
    Clankeye
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    Not only that but before Marquis de Kincoin was beheaded he survived the onslaught of Lordmarcovans nuclear attack and is with us until this day.image

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  • RLinnRLinn Posts: 596 ✭


    << <i>among them Marie Antoinette >>

    I don't think we need any 300 year old stringed puppets on our coins either.
    Buy the coin...but be sure to pay for it.
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Kincoin
    Pat---
    You seem to be settling in here. I am glad about that. Things will-- and have-- calmed down since you first arrived. You have asked some reasonable questions, and made some thoughtful responses to threads. It's a good place. People here know their stuff. Relax, enjoy, and I predict you'll still be coming here well on down the road.
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>When I went on a tour through Versailles palace, they said that it took 6 or 7 guillotine strikes to completely severe her head. >>



    I think your guide was mistaken. It sometimes took multiple blows with an ax but not a guillotine. A sharpened, angled, 40 pound piece of steel dropped a distance of 10 feet is not going to have any problem passing thru a persons neck.

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