Dead US Vice Presidents Will Make For Exciting Coins!
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<< <i> DEAD PRESIDENTS MAKE BORING COINS. >>
What the numismatic community needs (speaking as an outsider?) are coins with dead Vice Presidents on the obverse and themes depicting their main accomplishment on the reverse.
How about the Aaron Burr dime? The reverse could have a theme of dueling pistols, I hear this was a subject area Burr excelled at.
The Garret A. Hobart quarter could have a casket on the reverse since poor old Garret died in office.
Who is your favorite dead Vice President and what reverse theme and denomination would you pick - let's see some imagination and creativity here?
Themes for the Aaron Burr Dime - Part of the US Vice Presidents Memorial Coinage Series
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Also from Mr. Agnew - "In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. "
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<< <i> Al Gore and his most magnanimous gift to the world...the internet >>
Al Gore died?
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Jim
Why do you people insist on treating former politicians which such reverence??????
There is so much more out that says USA that deserves to be on our coins instead.
09/07/2006
<< <i>Dan Quayle: "What a shame it is to lose one's mind, or not having a mind is being very wasteful" Approximate quote for some charity.
Real quote: A mind is a terrible thing to waste. >>
They could be Quayle on the Idaho state quarter!!
<< <i>John adams needs to be on a 2 cent piece. >>
I still like the idea of a 2 cent piece, but wonder if a John Adams coin would be just another "dead president" issue. Ditto for former vice presidents Andrew Johnson ard Richard Nixon, who wuld probably not make it onto a circulating coin in our dead president series.
Vice presidents would make an interesting series. Many are all but forgotten, and a few others (Quayle, Agnew) are remembered only for a famous quote or misquote. Perhaps our interest in vice presidents is simply our amazement at the machinations that put some of these guys "a heartbeat away" from the presidency.
How about a series of commemorative U.S. stamps for vice presidents, instead?
There seems to be a strong opinion that dead presidents make for boring designs, compared to earlier depictions of liberty. I'm not sure if vice presidents would be any less boring (although Aaron Burr's dueling pistols would be interesting). How about if we return to depictions of ideals instead? "Toleration of incompetence" could be such an ideal which covers several vice presidents as well, and might be suitable for a low denomination coin.
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Why do you people insist on treating former politicians which such reverence??????
There is so much more out that says USA that deserves to be on our coins instead. >>
This forum really, really, really, really, REALLY needs a Sarcasm emoticon.
I got permission to search a lot adjacent to the ruins of the old Hampton house with my detector, and found an interesting trio of colonial coins. Any of them could have come from Burr's own pocket. It's fun to speculate on, anyway. Though all were dated in the 1700's, they obviously circulated a while and would've been lost in the early 1800's.
How about Alabama's own RUFUS KING. Elected VP in 1840's and while elected was in Cuba suffering from TB. Died in Cuba and never served a day on U.S. Soil. He is buried in Selma, AL. Rev. could have a depection of Cuba.