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Would you support a commemorative for Amerigo Vespucci?

cherrypickincoincherrypickincoin Posts: 1,761 ✭
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I was just thinking today that it's awkward we have commemoratives for Christopher Columbus but we have no commemorative's for the very man America is said to be named after. Would you support a bill that would allow an Amerigo Vespucci commemorative design?

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    edsondledsondl Posts: 385
    edited based on new learning.
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    baccarudabaccaruda Posts: 2,588 ✭✭
    Oh, great - and I just had his face glazed onto my dinner plates.
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    cherrypickincoincherrypickincoin Posts: 1,761 ✭
    edson,

    I thought that was Martin Waldseemuller who wrote in America on the map? I didn't think that was Amerigo Vespucci himself that did that. I guess I learn something every day.
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    relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570 ✭

    Leif Ericson already got his commemorative
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,072 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Neither Vespucci nor Columbus deserves to be on a US coin. They did nothing for our country, nothing to make it great.
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    BearBear Posts: 18,954 ✭✭
    How about a Commemorative to Al Capone.

    We could do a remake of the Gangster Nickel.image

    Gold plated and everything.
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    ElectricEyeElectricEye Posts: 2,354
    didn't he invent the moped?

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