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Will MLK ever make it to a $1 dollar commem?

morgansforevermorgansforever Posts: 8,469 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I shouldn't have to go into details, we all know what a courageous individual he was. Perhaps a dual portrait of Lincoln and MLK, seeing that MLK fulfilled Lincolns work and vision. If P.T. Barnum made it on an obverse, there's room for a MLK commem. What do the formites think?
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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Like that better the Baseball.......image
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They should go all in. Put him on the dime for 25 years. A coin people will see and use, rather than an obscure commem
  • JustNeedCoinsJustNeedCoins Posts: 241
    One can only hope not.
  • JustNeedCoinsJustNeedCoins Posts: 241
    He has done amazing things. There has, however, been a sufficient amount of recognition.
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Considering the rationale of the current Congress, we'll see a commem. for J.Edgar Hoover before there is a commem. for MLK.

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  • FountainheadFountainhead Posts: 956
    Odd that we get Eunice Shriver before MLK.
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,797 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Odd that we get Eunice Shriver before MLK. >>



    Her nephew was a congressman and he sponsored a bill to honor the Special Olympics and included the requirement that her portrait be on the coin.

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  • WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Considering the rationale of the current Congress, we'll see a commem. for J.Edgar Hoover before there is a commem. for MLK. >>



    Unfortunately, you are probably correct in that assessment.
  • mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
    I vote for his image on a circulating coin....dime or whatever.
    He certainly deserves that level of recognition.
    RIP MLK.
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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm sure he will, but I too would rather see him on a circulating coin,
    Maybe the half dollar, but is that really a circulating coin these days?

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  • silver2ndsilver2nd Posts: 51
    He was a courageous minister in the service to all men in these United States. He made a contribution that should be added to our collection of images on coins, at minimum on a commemorative.
    How to get it started?
  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭


    << <i>They should go all in. Put him on the dime for 25 years. A coin people will see and use, rather than an obscure commem >>



    I agree
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Modern commems jumped the shark a long time ago. Designs that are good and well-executed are few and far between, especially where a portrait is used.
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  • yellowkidyellowkid Posts: 5,486 ✭
    I admire Doctor King but I don't know that he needs to be on a coin, having said that I see some of the people that are and say, why not?
  • s4nys4ny Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm sure he will, but I too would rather see him on a circulating coin,
    Maybe the half dollar, but is that really a circulating coin these days?

    Steve >>



    Maybe on the half after this year.
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They will sell more than a few of the J. Edgar Hoover coins if they have him in drag with Clyde Tolson - maybe a bit of pink and purple overlay - think targeted marketing to certain demographics and it could be a real money spanker for the mint.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
    mlk did alot and worked wonders but i cant see it
  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd love to see a civil liberty commem, but not one specifically for MLK. He was one of many, many voices in that very important movement.

    For bleeps sake, keep him and every other dead American off our coinage. Where is Liberty when you need her?
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,679 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We have a history of putting our great historical figures on coinage and currency. With that in mind, we really should include Dr. King on one or the other. The latest change re circulating coins was Kennedy on the Half in 1964. Surely we can replace an image of Dr. King on one of these coins.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,752 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm sure he will, but I too would rather see him on a circulating coin,
    Maybe the half dollar, but is that really a circulating coin these days?

    Steve >>



    I'd vote for his image on commemorative coin, but I wouldn't vote for it on a circulating coin. There are people like Theodore Roosevelt that are ahead of him.
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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I'm sure he will, but I too would rather see him on a circulating coin,
    Maybe the half dollar, but is that really a circulating coin these days?

    Steve >>



    I'd vote for his image on commemorative coin, but I wouldn't vote for it on a circulating coin. There are people like Theodore Roosevelt that are ahead of him. >>





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  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If Booker T could be on one for 9 years, why not? Of course the BTW program may be why commems disappeared for so long. The sad thing is, I'd bet 90% of Americans don't even remember who he was. The problem with commems now (or again) is there have been so many... they're hardly a "tribute" to anything.
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  • philographerphilographer Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He should replace Roosevelt on the dime.

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