12-11-2016, 02:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-11-2016, 02:07 PM by Anthony '58.)
Actually, we should have used the really small $1 gold coin, which had a diameter of 13 millimeters (by comparison, the dime measures just under 18 millimeters across), and was last produced in 1889, as the model - and since the nickel is also a loser for the Mint, it needs to be changed to stainless steel, which was used in Italy's last lira coins before Italy went on the euro.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892