The U.S. Mint seems to be have some serious attention span issues. I could deal with the 50-state quarter thing. It was kind of cute and took a bit of the drudgery out of the laundromat with the prospect of maybe getting a new state quarter out of the change machine. But since last Wednesday, they've decided to replace Monticello with a seal commemorating the Louisiana Purchase on the nickel, and are bandying about the idea of replacing Sacajawea on the dollar coin with all the presidents from Washington to Nixon in order of appearance, including Grover Cleveland twice. Why Nixon? You can't put anyone alive on a coin (or a postage stamp, which proves that Elvis is dead).
Couldn't they give us a week's downtime between redesigning our currency? One would think that these constant revampings would make counterfeiting easier as we, the general public, lose track of what our money is supposed to look like? It's not like we see enough of it to keep track of all the changes.
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