The Hitler Peace Dollar

relayer · September 28, 2003 8:54PM

1922 Toned Peace Dollar

wingedliberty · September 28, 2003 8:56PM

Not an amusing analogy.

relayer · September 28, 2003 9:34PM

Wow, tough crowd. I didn't realize he was held in such high esteem.

(see he had this funny little mustache, aw never mind)

mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 12:53AM

Seems like a good analogy to me. Maybe for a more PC analogy liberty has gender identity problems and is finally getting out of the closet (I'm not sure that's more PC).

TheNumish · September 29, 2003 12:58AM

I'm not PC and think this thread is in very poor taste.

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 1:03AM

Well, it does leave one to use their imagination!...

mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 1:45AM

It is a tough crowd. Does the pic look like Hitler? Yes. Do I want to own a coin that looks like Hitler? Not particularly. The fact that it looks like hitler has little to do with the political/humanitarian implications, for me at least. Not everone can separate the image from the symbolism.

coinchallenged · September 29, 2003 1:58AM

Looks more like Charlie Chaplin.

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 2:07AM

LOL...mg..To be quite honest with you, I wasn't looking at the moustache initially, I envisioned something much more hideous...Looking, of course, at the whole coin.

TheNumish · September 29, 2003 2:09AM

It's not a tough crowd. The thread is just in bad taste.

millennium · September 29, 2003 2:27AM

<< Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. Mark Twain >>

I wish you would remove this from your sig...It offends me. I am the son of an alcoholic and I think it is in bad taste.

TheNumish · September 29, 2003 2:29AM

Millennium-

Give me a fricken break.

There were 250,000 US combat deaths in WW 2. If you include disease and accidents I think it was closer to 300,000. I don't think Hitlers face on a coin that is a symbol for our country is funny.

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 2:30AM

I am a ALCOHOLIC...

millennium · September 29, 2003 2:34AM

Look. That is no more stupid than what you are doing. They guy isn't boot steeping to Hitler..He was just making a reference we could ALL identify with. You need to lighten up, that is all I was trying to point out.

baccaruda · September 29, 2003 2:36AM

How is a simple reference to Hitler so tasteless? It's not like he's trying to recruit people in helping him establish a new Arian race or something...

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 2:36AM

Here's a good one for millenium. It kinda makes a recovering drunk, such as myself, ponder...From the bible (proverbs 31: 6,7): "Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more." I thought GIN was included...Oh well!....

mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 2:42AM

I don't think Dr. Phil would want you drowning your misery in booze.

TheNumish · September 29, 2003 2:44AM

ok, maybe I'm a little sensitive. I'll let it go.

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 2:44AM

In all likihood...NO...However, I'd like to DROWN Dr. Phil...

mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 2:55AM

There's something we can all agree on.

jbsteven · September 29, 2003 2:57AM

<< I am the son of an alcoholic and I think it is in bad taste >>

I am also a son of a alcoholic. I became one myself and fixed the problem. I have been completely sober for over 6 years and can say that my father made a choice to become a alcoholic and I cannot change that. I have learned to move on and just accept my father and everyone else for what THEY ARE.

Referring to this thread I do not believe it in bad taste. If someone would have said it reminded them of Charlie Chaplan would you say something about him marrying a 13-14 year old (I am pretty sure he did this if I remember the movie correctly)?

Baley · September 29, 2003 2:58AM

wow, ya gotta be pretty evil if the mere mention of yer name is offensive.

OT: I wonder if there is anyone left with the last name Hitler, or have they all changed it?

even the name Adolf subjects one to scorn. Witness A. Coors

further ot: I always thought it would be fun to change your name to Lucifer Hitler

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 3:00AM

BRAVO...BRAVO..JB...6 YRS. TOO...

mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 3:00AM

If you look hard enough, anything can be interpreted as offensive. Some things just require less looking. Yes Charlie did have a child bride. I think he was pretty old when he got married.

braddick · September 29, 2003 3:00AM

<< Wow, tough crowd. I didn't realize he was held in such high esteem. (see he had this funny little mustache, aw never mind) >>

http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=224717

jbsteven · September 29, 2003 3:02AM

razor

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 3:03AM

LOL...My wife and I just reared our fourth child into the world. I wanted to name him Lucifer. She, on the otherhand, wanted me CASTRATED...

JxnBoy · September 29, 2003 3:06AM

<< OT: I wonder if there is anyone left with the last name Hitler, or have they all changed it >>

Yes, they all changed it, and to take it even further, Hitler had a nephew who had three sons. The three sons agreed years ago never to have children so that the bloodline would finally die with them.

Final bloodline

ohbaby · September 29, 2003 3:08AM

There are issues that people sensitized so much others are afraid to mention them. Does that make them go away?

In Europe, many nations have banned the sale of Nazi historical items particularly on Yahoo/ebay auctions. The Germans practically want to pretend Hitler never existed.

If you sublimate or demonize something I feel it actually attracts a particular audience, am evil one. The burying of the facts and keeping a closed mind so nothing is discussed prolongs its life and even adds an air of mystery.

If we expose the Nazi and Hitler for the evil that they did and the historical facts behind it I feel people will be better educated and the subject will lose its "taboo". The subject is not evil the people were.

dorkkarl · September 29, 2003 3:09AM

i thought for sure it'd be that old picture from mastahanky of hrh as hitler.

K S

baccaruda · September 29, 2003 3:26AM

I think it may just be something lost on the next generation. My grandmother (born in Poland) also didn't find even the slightest mention of Hitler appropriate at any time, for any reason. A lot of people react violently to the name. Naturally something like that is going to be much more powerful to someone who's lived through it.

I'm not inferring anything about you, Jay!

Russ · September 29, 2003 3:33AM

<< BRAVO...BRAVO..JB...6 YRS. TOO... >>

Newbies!

Russ, NCNE

SarasotaFrank · September 29, 2003 3:37AM

being an avid watcher of the history channel, anyone driving cars built in Japan these days?

baccaruda · September 29, 2003 3:40AM

anyone driving cars built in Japan these days?

Well, if you're driving a Ford, GM, or Chrysler you are. I think Honda is the most American car now. Every part is manufactured and assembled in the U.S.

mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 3:40AM

Nope all I've got is German and US. Uh Oh! German again.

No Japanese brands at least.

Russ · September 29, 2003 3:44AM

<< Well, if you're driving a Ford, GM, or Chrysler you are. >>

I drive a Ford and it was not built in Japan.

Russ, NCNE

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 3:51AM

I DRIVE...my wife...NUTZ

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 3:59AM

Hey RUSS...WANNA BE MY SPONSER?... I had to "Pink slip" my 33rd one, he had me doing too much work on me...

JohnZ · September 29, 2003 4:02AM

Dr. Phil is my dad.

I find your comments to be in very poor taste.

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 4:11AM

What would dad say about you posting on these boards?... Hmmh, interesting! I find the probable cause to be that he's merely sublimating childhood anger due to the fact that I (Dr. Phil), was too busy JO'ing looking at my classroom instructor amidst her, or in this case, possibly his, lectures; therefore, causal to my not getting a degree in counseling therapy and having to stoop as low as placing myself on national television to make more of a JO out of myself...Son I'm sorry....

JohnZ · September 29, 2003 4:15AM

It's OK Daddy. I still love you.

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 4:17AM

JOHN...YER KILLIN' ME..I'M DYIN' OVER HERE

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mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 4:20AM

Were healing the masses. This thread has improved all of our lives, esp. Dr. Phil and his son.

millennium · September 29, 2003 4:22AM

I feel so much better.....

JohnZ · September 29, 2003 4:30AM

<voice of Dr. Phil>This aint nuthin more'n puttin' a bandaid on bull's bleedin' ass</voice of Dr. Phil>

mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 4:33AM

Don't ever underestimate the power of a band-aid.

relayer · September 29, 2003 5:03AM

It’s obvious that the coin symbolizes the entire geo-political struggle of the 20th Century as envisioned by the Nazi’s. The greens and yellows represent the dichotomy of the evil of alcoholism against the pure love of Dr. Phil, while the blue tones are clearly indicative of the invasion of Poland in 1939. The two orange spots on the coin represent the struggle between Ford and GM as lone icons against the post WWII Japanese domination of the American auto market. It’s all so clear.

The black spot under the nose? Well, that just looks like a mustache.

baccaruda · September 29, 2003 5:06AM

I drive a Ford and it was not built in Japan.

Some of the parts were, Tojo. Oops, now I've done it...

razorface1027 · September 29, 2003 5:11AM

relayer..YER NUKKIN' FUTS..LMAO..

mgoodm3 · September 29, 2003 5:27AM

That's one evil coin. I should have seen it earlier.

Russ · September 29, 2003 5:55AM

<< I drive a Ford and it was not built in Japan.

Some of the parts were, Tojo. Oops, now I've done it... >>

Nope.

Edit: Actually not really sure. But, if some were it ain't very many. More likely the only overseas content is some of the electronics which would be China or Taiwan.

Russ, NCNE

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