The bill also creates a gold bullion coin program bearing images of former first ladies and emblems of their causes on $10 coins. Companion coins for those presidents who had no spouse will show images of liberty and themes of the presidents' tenures. The coins will be 99.99 percent pure gold.OK... number of presidents who had no spouse: 1, James Buchanon, until recently widely considered the worst. president. EVER. It'll be a real stretch to come up with something for his "companion" coin. His hairdresser, maybe?
*Four coins will be issued a year, in order, and the president must have been dead for two years. Ford's is scheduled for 2016, so he'll probably make it onto one of 'em, as will Carter and Bush senior. But the rest of them are scheduled for 2017, so Clinton and Bush the lesser will probably die coinless.
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I bet he just couldn't think of anything else to get his cold, dissapproving mother. He had to do something Daddy didn't think of, and something his smarter but even more odious brother couldn't do.
Here's hoping I can buy my commemorative Bush 43 coin on December 23, 2007.
hey i dream about W dying coinless..would serve his dumbass right.
"dead for long enough"?
Just how big is a $10 99.99 coin anyway?
I had the opposite thought on this, as aspiring eurotrash I've wanted coins to replace small bills for 10 years. I'm hoping this is the only good thing stupid Reagan does for us, but I did blog about it last week.
I think they should put Dubya's face on the penny, then phase it out.
the two dollar bill would be nice KZ..or that crappy dollar coin they put susan b anthony on.
Why cant the Treasury Department just come out already and issue $3 gold dubloon for Buchanan? Or, at least have Liberty depicted as John Brown in drag? (Harpers Ferry raid took place under his watch)
Companion coins for those presidents who had no spouse will show images of liberty
It's almost as if they're equating marriage with some form of slavery or bondage...
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