I was told that it was illegal for coins in the Untied States to depict a living person
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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As always...
Laws are enforced by people. If people don't enforce them, they cease to exist.
As always, fuck this timeline.
Well, if it's a law then I suppose there's only one option.
Disgusting.
One thing I'm honestly surprised by is that we don't see a lot more of donnie effigies being burned at protests.
This guy is just such a fucking dirtbag.
Could you fucking imagine the uproar if a democrat did this. If Harris had won and put her face on US currency? They wouldn't be able to fucking cope. They'd be collecting and melting the coins down. Such blatant sycophants, hypocrites and fascists. Fuck me.
Needs an engraving stamp reading "Not Legal Currency".
His victims weren’t legal either.
Still illegal no matter what the arts commission yes men say.
Can't wait for the upcoming chaos when tens of millions of people are told that the coins they got as change during the preceding years are no longer legal tender because the Supreme Court finally rules on it.
Usually US issued coins carry a small premium over scrap gold. It would be a public service for someone to acquire theses coins after they are issued, melt them back to regular gold and sell them a regular gold bullion.
Can we request the bullion is stamped with the face of Obama or something like that, just to really get an aneurysm brewing
we don't need artificial demand for them.
We don’t need them at all. Every single one of them I come across I’m bending in half and throwing it away.
xactly. let them sit in the gov warehouses. its a commemorative coin so will not go to circulation.
One side has his mugshot, and the other side an underaged girl.
Arts Commission Commits Anti-Art
What a disgusting waste of gold
Should have used gold leaf over Ea-Nasir copper to artistically convey the rot within
How can we commemorate him if he's not even dead yet?
Not with that attitude, we can’t.
Is money that breaks the law by design still legal tender?
That sign again! But he doesn't do the tongue and cheak thing. Mixed messages!
Be normal, like the rest of us.
Is that last one Dexter's sister?
Yes
Cashier: “your total is 75 Donny’s and 18 Kirk’s.