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Igel

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9. It's for 2026 only.

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 11:07 PM

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Special issue/series coins for the sesquicentennial.

Note that under FDR (and his immediate predecessors) there was an olive branch.

With a fasces. FDR. Fasces. Ahem.

I can only imagine what would be said had *that* bit of iconography been resurrected.

It's an odd choice, but the mood in 1776 was not much in favor of "peace at all costs."

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