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A Legacy of Dead Presidents on Coins
The main reason that the U.S. has featured very few living people on their coins stems back to our Revolutionary War Forefathers. One way for a king to proclaim his sovereignty over his subjects was to have his effigy struck into the coins of his realm. For the American colonists, who were predominantly anti-royalists, the image of the king on British Coins they were forced to use in everyday transactions was a painful reminder of what they considered his tyranny and oppression.
That was actually where my brain went first – had one of his assassins been successful, he’d be eligible for coinage (look how fast JFK ended up on the half-dollar!). But he will be the first U.S. ruler to have his graven image on both sides of a coin.
I’d recommend not throwing one in a bowl of holy water. A hunk of caesium would be the safer choice.