I totally forgot to post about this

[Josh Seipp]

(I think...maybe my short term memory is going...)

BUT ANYWAY

what is the DEAL with the Indian nickels!? COMMEMORATING the LOUISIANA PURCHASE?!

The design, by United States Mint sculptor/engraver Norman E. Nemeth, features two hands clasped in friendship - one with a military uniform cuff, symbolizing the American government, and the other with a silver band adorned with beads and a stylized American eagle, representing the Native American community with whom the United States sought good relations.

uhhhhhh

 

[Josh Seipp]

also wasn't the lousiana purchase with the FRENCH?

 

[azal]

french, native american? what's the difference.

The day a Kosovo coin comes out of the independant state of Kosovo commemorating the good relations between Serbs and Albanians, I'm moving back to Jersey.

 

[lizard]

It symbolically says hey you injuns, we shall clasp your hand in friendship and then rob the fuck out of you!

and while you're at it, how'd you like some smallpox ridden blankets?

 

[NAD]

That is so amazing. I think FDR's head should be on the other side, that would rule.

 

[deadair]

i've actually SEEN one of these...

i looked at it very puzzeled for more than a few minutes.

"i.... wha....... no way...."

 

[azal]

this should be the official coin at native american run casinos nationwide!

 

[lizard]

dude, FDR is on THE DIME

the nickel should feature Jefferson's head with a tomahawk stuck in it. that would be cool.

 

[NAD]

No, Jefferson's head would make sense since he was involved with the Louisiana Purchase (although the tomahawk idea is good).

Oh! It could say I LIKE IKE! below a picture of Coolidge! Best. Coin. Ever.

 

[xfer]

i think the nickels are cool even while the reasoning behind the clasp is, um, a bit of an "alternative history".

 

[lizard]

I thought the sacajawea coin was neat although the public hates them. the thought of an indian teenager married off to a drunken, abusive french fur trapper, had a baby named pompey, and dissapeared into the mists of time is just too good!

 

[xfer]

i like the idea of a dollar coin, but sacajawea was so unimportant compared to so many old white men it was really painfully obvious that they were just trying to kill the Indian and the Woman birds with the same stone regardless of what kind of nobody she was.

 

[lizard]

they've been trying so hard with the female coins...first that old crone Susan B. Anthony. Sacajawea would have carved her open like a thanksgiving turkey.

 

[xfer]

i mean, fuck, MILLARD FILLMORE was probably more important than Sacajawea.

 

[lizard]

yeah but did he lead a band of intrepid adventurers, half led by a soon to be insane guy, half across completely uncharted wilderness, and JUST BY CHANCE meet up with her own brother???

and didn't millard fillmore get stuck in a bathtub once?

 

[xfer]

i think that was Taft?

 

[0sm0se]

It was Taft, due to his tremendous girth, he owns the honor of fattest president and therefore, the most American President ever as he best represented us as a people.

 

[xfer]

see the TAFT of tremendous GIRTH
on his SHELL he holds the EARTH

 

[The Dope]

Yeah, I got one of those nickels recently. All I could think was "what happened to Monticello?"

 

[lizard]

you Virginians are being disenfranchised!!

okay, yes, Taft. And to get that fat in that era was a real achievement! no whoppers, twinkies, doritos, etc.