03/22/07
Looking at the new dollar coin, I see that the word Liberty
does not appear. The Statue of Liberty was deemed enough of Liberty.
I was told, once, that U.S. coinage was originally designed to have a representation of Liberty on one side. So we saw a lot of Indians (in a sort of American irony, I guess) and a lot of classical androgynous represenations on our coinage.
And then the presidents took over.
My thought was that a dead president wasn't that bad of a representation of liberty; live ones, though, wouldn't work at all.
But how much better would it be were it not a bust of a president presented, but a head of a president, bleeding on a pike?
(Perhaps I'm in such a bloody turn of mind because a friend of mine just noticed that we've been seeing a lot of Assassination Movies recently!)
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