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The Thayer amendment, added by a Republican representative to a federal appropriations bill in 1866, states explicitly that "no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States."
Maybe the rumors of bad health are true and they're getting ready 🤞
An explanation of the legislation on an archived page from the Treasury’s website noted that the act “was caused by an uproar over the actions of the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Spencer Clark,” who had “placed himself on a five-cent note and had a large quantity of them printed before it was noticed.”
That webpage has been removed from the Treasury’s website.
A Treasury spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the legality of featuring Mr. Trump on the coin.
I hope so too, but I’m sure it’s just sycophants doing sycophant stuff.
Fixed
Swastika is mirrored...
Flag flying the other way?
Grifters gonna grift.
What a way to instantly devalue a coin.
I don't expect to ever happen across one of these from a normal transaction, but on the off chance I do, it's getting a swastica stamped onto the forehead.
The sleaze is spreading
I a couple decades this will be illegal to own just like nazi memorabilia, and for the same reasons.
USD should be changed to CRNG on the trading markets
This is so awesome. I can add it to my collection of commemorative Star Wars coins. I bet it’ll appreciate in value 🤣
I figure it’ll be like Nazi memorabilia in a few years.
Melted down into bars and lost somewhere in the Swiss banking system?
I assume he’s just going to swim in a gigantic Scrooge-McDucky vault full of them. Naked, wearing only the power loader from Aliens.
Does this mean he's gonna die? Cause in the Untied States, you're supposed to die before your face can be on coins.
In Canada, we put the current monarch's face on coins. Does this mean Trump is fixing to declare himself king?
No. They just took the part about there being a law against coins and bills with the image of a living person off the Treasury website.
An explanation of the legislation on an archived page from the Treasury’s website noted that the act “was caused by an uproar over the actions of the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Spencer Clark,” who had “placed himself on a five-cent note and had a large quantity of them printed before it was noticed.”
That webpage has been removed from the Treasury’s website.
Is that how the Untied States changes laws now? Just editing the books? No need for court decisions or debating bills in congress?
Not even the law books; just the government websites which acknowledge that the law exists.
"In god we trust"
That is very poorly placed
I'm surprised he isn't trying to sell them himself for $100 each.
Do you think they've bothered to trademark it? Could get some coins custom printed like this and beat them to market
In general, the US makes it illegal to produce anything which people could be reasonably expected to confuse for actual US currency unless you're doing at the behest of the government.
It's probably a lot more effective to build a stamping machine which re-stamps them with a Traitor label on the head, and a Russian flag on the back.
Movie magic means you can get away with it by adding a little "Not legal tender; for motion picture use only" on there, but I do like your idea
What in the living hell. Fight fight fight?? Please. The money is trump propaganda.
I will melt that down before it touches my pockets
So pathetic and so not Christian.
I wouldn’t pay extra for it but if I ever got one I’d save it so I can show people in the future that the United States became fascist
Terrible idea to be honest.