Does anyone find this ironic?

There are three (possibly four) different 20c coins in New Zealand that are accepted as legal tender. One is the original coin, the second is a special edition Maori coin, and the Australian 20c coin. There are also two $10 notes, one was released during the year 2000, and if folded a special way, apparently revealed "Y2K" in the South Island when looking through the window. It seems out currency doesn't change, it just has additions.

Mind you, new currency will have to be published soon once we have a new hijacker of the throne...

Originally posted by rwingett
Indians have not been on our coins in a long time. The last change to occur to US coins (except for the state quarters) was in 1945.

Originally posted by flexmore
if you can convince the iraqis to kill saddam hussein then maybe he will be on a coin!

- and of course there is osama .... if you can find that needle in a haystack.

Originally posted by chancremechanic
Sacagawea (sic?), the Indian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark, I think, is on the dollar coin, no?

Originally posted by kirksey957
Yes, but now redman have casino for whiteman to come lose money and get drunk with fire water. Now who laughs last?

oh. O forgot the buffalo as well. White people took them to the edge of extinction in less than 100 years. Then, when they were nearly wiped out, we put them on a coin.

So, I suppose the rule of thumb is, If you are within the borders of the USA, andf your kind are bveing wiped out, don't worry, when you are gone, we will put you on a coin.

Originally posted by elvendreamgirl
....that we Americans slaughtered the native Americans to the point of near extinction and then put their faces on our coins?

Originally posted by fierce

Pretty ironic. I'm one-quarter Native American (no pun intended), find it interesting that they killed them off for greed, and then put their pictures on their own symbols of greed (money). It's really just the way of the world, I guess.

A little off the subject but an interesting thing happened to me one day. I was living in Florida next to the bea ...[text shortened]... o nickel. No moral to the story, I guess, but I thought it was a pretty neat occurence.

-f

Native Americans killed white folks and sold their scalps to other white folks.

But then they had good reason!

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Native Americans killed white folks and sold their scalps to other white folks.

But then they had good reason!

Originally posted by Phlabibit
From what I understand, the 'white man' introduced scalping to the native american. Why would a 'white man' want to purchase another white man's scalp?

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Originally posted by bbarr
Well, Andrew Jackson had the reins for his horse made of the skin of Native Americans. I'm not sure whether it was skin from the head.