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derryb
derryb Posts: 38,608 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This year the federal reserve bank celebrates 100 years of debasing our currency. I think this deserves a commemorative platinum coin from the US Mint. What should both sides of the coin depict?

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

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  • fivecents
    fivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Obverse..a room of BEP printing presses running full blast.

    Reverse... A shiney FIAT covertable sports car driving over pallets of US currency.
  • DrBuster
    DrBuster Posts: 5,446 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A lightbulb outline on one side, jar of vaseline on the other.
  • carew4me
    carew4me Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭✭
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    obverse - a needle
    reverse - fully inflated balloon

    Loves me some shiny!

    “Often wrong, but never in doubt.”
  • JohnnyCache
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  • RedneckHB
    RedneckHB Posts: 20,236 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>This year the federal reserve bank celebrates 100 years of debasing our currency. I think this deserves a commemorative platinum coin from the US Mint. What should both sides of the coin depict? >>




    On the obverse should be an American worker thus representing the economic might of this great country. The reverse should depict the vast(unmatched) natural resources this country has.
    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • Weiss
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    I'd like to see the mint put out a straight-faced, well -designed, classically-inspired silver dollar.

    And I want it to be made out of the standard US silver dollar composition: 90% silver, 10% copper.

    And I'd like it to contain a dollar's worth of silver at the time of minting. So roughly 1 gram as I type.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • carew4me
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    << <i>I'd like to see the mint put out a straight-faced, well -designed, classically-inspired silver dollar.

    And I want it to be made out of the standard US silver dollar composition: 90% silver, 10% copper.

    And I'd like it to contain a dollar's worth of silver at the time of minting. So roughly 1 gram as I type. >>



    a silver dollar the size of a dime image

    Loves me some shiny!

    “Often wrong, but never in doubt.”
  • Steve27
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    << <i>

    << <i>I'd like to see the mint put out a straight-faced, well -designed, classically-inspired silver dollar.

    And I want it to be made out of the standard US silver dollar composition: 90% silver, 10% copper.

    And I'd like it to contain a dollar's worth of silver at the time of minting. So roughly 1 gram as I type. >>



    a silver dollar the size of a dime image >>



    No it would have to be smaller than a half-dime.
    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
  • bronco2078
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    It would be the size of a gold dollar image


    I wouldn't hold my breath for any activist coin striking by the mint
  • tneig
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    Can I have your permission to make buttons from these images.

    << <i>image >>

    COA
  • johnny9434
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    << <i>image >>

    that about sums it up best
  • JohnnyCache
    JohnnyCache Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    be my guest
  • Baley
    Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How about Lady Liberty in a tinfoil hat on the obverse, and Chicken Little on the reverse?

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • OldEastside
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    Obverse: A California Condor (A Big Vulture)
    Reverse: Fort Knox with a sign in front that says "Closed for Business out of stock"

    Steve
    Promote the Hobby
  • jmski52
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    A woman hanging out the window of her apartment, hollering "it's my money, and I want it NOW!" on one side,

    and an image of Hank Paulson on the other looking freaked out, asking for another trillion or the world will come to and end (for bankers).


    I still marvel at the fact that our colored paper money now looks very reminiscent of the Monopoly Money that I played with as a kid. I'm sure it's not subliminal messaging or anything like that.image
    Q: Are You Printing Money? Bernanke: Not Literally

    I knew it would happen.

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