Little Rock Desegregation Silver Dollar Commem

orie

Does anyone have an image of this commem coming out in May?

Mercury10c

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/commemoratives/index.cfm?action=LittleRock

Barndog

WELCOME, mercury10C

CaptHenway

That image of just the legs walking along with the soldier's legs sure looks familiar to me. Is that design from a contemporary photo or painting of the situation?
TD

ArgentumRex

Something like this, maybe? There's probably a lot of similar pictures out there.

Pentimento

Was bugging me too, but I figured it out today. 'The problem we all live with,' by Norman Rockwell.

ccex

The design of this commem might not be the greatest, but it's a new one and a must have for this American history buff. It won't be as popular as the 2001 Buffalo/Indian or last year's San Francisco Mint commemorative.

Has anyone else heard the lyrics to the Charles Mingus composition "Fables of Faubus"? If so, the authorization of this commemorative coin might seem as unlikely as the Washington/Carver halves of the early '50s, authorized to "oppose the spread of Communism among American Negroes" and unpopular with most collectors even today.

Why didn't some congressman authorize a commemorative coin for the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954? Why wasn't there a 1995 commemorative of the centennial of Plessy v. Ferguson? Did someone at the mint assume that consumers of modern commemoratives were less likely to pay premiums for African-American history themes than for the likes of West Point, Thomas Edison, Dolley Madison, the Wright Bros., Leif Ericson, Benjamin Franklin, John Marshall, Lewis & Clark?

Might the race of U.S. coin collectors be correlated to the subject matter and sales figures of U.S. commemoratives?

Blackhawk

Maybe they'll make another that has a sliding bar as part of the coin with torsos stamped on it...then you could slide the bare back and forth and mix n' match the legs to the torsos. This would be a fun thing for kids when the family goes on longer car rides.

Artist

Wow - I really like the design - especially the obverse.

flaminio

<< <i>Wow - I really like the design - especially the obverse. >>

It's really growing on me. The more I look at it, the more powerful it gets.

ziggy29

I like it quite a lot better than I was expecting to.

ccex

This looks like it will be one of my favorite commemoratives. I can live without most of the recent ones since Leif Ericson, Dolley Madison, and Jackie Robinson, but this one is a must have for me, and a link to the last of the classic commemoratives. See my post above. I hope most other collectors will pass on this one, as they have with other commemoratives celebrating themes of interest to African Americans.