• Xraygoggles@lemmy.world
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      I’m not quite sure about this one. I think that the current design on the reverse is an issue. But the front doesn’t seem to break any laws.

      I’m assuming they print these under subsection Y of 31 U.S. Code § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins. Which pertains to these 250th anniversary coins.

      The part I see mentioned in this thread frequently applies to a separate subsection (n) for a run of $1 presidential coins that has since ended.

      If you just read subsection Y in a vacuum, they are good to go. This part at the bottom though says that the reverse can’t be a ‘portrait’.

      So this isn’t really slam dunk illegal, but I don’t think that the draft of the coins reverse will make it to print. I would fully expect the front to come out just like that though based on my interpretation.

      (aa)Standards and General Provisions for Circulating Collectible Coins Under Subsections (x), (y), and (z).—

      (1)Prohibition on certain representations.—

      No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin under subsections (x), (y), and (z).

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        I don’t know much about the law, but it feels like the ‘Fight fight fight’ side is overtly party political.

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      Maybe but they do illegal things all the time and no one is a position to stop them does anything

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        Okay so we should all just give up then? Act like laws don’t exist? Just let him?

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    This is just bait for people to point out that it’s illegal to commemorate a living president.

    At which point they’ll feign “oopsies” and—surprising absolutely nobody—proceed to roll out a Charlie Kirk coin.

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      There’s already shitloads of ads out there for privately minted Kuck rounds

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    If such a coin exists ever exists, I hope all of them end up with deep scratches across the face.

    Also, “Fight fight fight” sounds more like the Itchy and Scratchy theme song than some democratic saying.

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      It makes me think of every high school football marching band, with their “fight song” BS

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    Great idea … no better way to celebrate how stupid this country has become than by sharing another dumb image of this idiot.

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    NO living person should be commemorated on a coin, regardless of political ideology.

    Hopefully, this abomination will go over about as well as the Sacajawea dollar coin.

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      I loved those coins. Super easy to use in vending machines that could take them. Way better than fucking around with an old paper dollar.

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    Have them commission a trump trillion dollar coin to get the nation back on it’s feet again and end the shutdown. His ego would love that idea and the rest of the country could get on with their business.

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    […] it was long-standing tradition to only feature portraits of deceased individuals on currency and coin.

    That tradition became law with an 1866 Act of Congress

    Does the treasury department know something that we don’t about events that may or may not happen before the anniversary?