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New dollar coin available today. Sacagawea has been replaced by George Washington as the face of the golden-collered dollar coin. It's a new attempt at getting dollar coins into circulation, with not only George, but each president in turn for three months at a time. (side note: only presidents dead for at least two years can appear on currency)

Also, as with state quarters, serious and novice collectors will snap up a bunch, effectively buying money, which is profit for the government.

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The Right's attitude is that it hides it more, and edges wear down meaning "God" will be worn down over time. (of course, it wears down the front as well). And there's the whole overall attitude that God is no longer in "Front" and that must be an intentional insult to God that he's secondary to the secularist gods as those in favor of separation treat the first presidents up to Monroe.

There's nothing logical or reasonable about it - its all emotional rhetoric designed to increase their collective sense that the majority is suffering and are oppressed victims of a secularist minority determined to take God out of the public picture entirely.

Regarding liberty, I disagree that it does. It's a monument and all it brings up are monuments. the fact that most kids getting through school today can't even recite "Give me your tired, your poor" to completion (or even that much) or know that the statue is where that is written leads me to think the true symbolism is lost on this.