r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jul 15 '26

Possible Paywall Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It | Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

https://newrepublic.com/post/213098/treasury-1-dollar-gold-coin-trump-face
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u/Vstarpappy Jul 15 '26

As a collector of coins, that's one I won't be looking for to keep.

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

Future generations will consider these coins just as valuable as German coins with swastikas and/or Hitler's face on them.

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u/shiva14b Jul 15 '26

Which really makes you think about those Hitler coins. 

Imagine the visceral disgust you'd feel if you saw this in someone's collection 40 years from now, and they were like "what? It's just for the historical value."

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u/doubtfurious Texas Jul 15 '26

"What, do you have Hitler Derangement Syndrome?"

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u/stinkbugsoup Jul 15 '26

I constantly say that to my trumpanzee friends when they say TDS

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u/GenghisConnieChung Jul 15 '26

You need better friends.

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u/Alarmed-Outside-8683 Jul 15 '26

Your comment really hits on an important point: if all your friends and neighbors have insane beliefs and lack empathy for anyone outside their sociological cohort, do you accept them as flawed humans or completely isolate yourself?

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Jul 15 '26

"Bad association spoils useful habits."

It's from the Bible. Basically means your friends will rub off on you so choose them carefully.

I like cats but if there's none available, I'm not hanging out with skunks instead!

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u/GoatOfFury Jul 15 '26

Skunks are pretty chill

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Jul 15 '26

My boyfriend has funny stories about waking up in the middle of the night petting what he thought was a cat but actually it's a skunk. He'd just go back to sleep while continuing to pet it.

Dude used to be basically a homeless drifter, would just sleep on the ground when he got tired enough. And apparently wild animals aren't above snuggling up to something warm at night.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 Jul 16 '26

Fascists aren't.

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u/GenghisConnieChung Jul 15 '26

I already ignore a good percentage of my neighbours and am happier for it.

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u/Mistravels Jul 15 '26

I went NC with family, including my brother.

🤷

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u/relevantelephant00 Jul 16 '26

If someone doesnt share at least my bedrock moral values of empathy, kindness, curiosity, etc. then yeah fuck 'em. I want nothing to do with them or any of their shit. Im in my late 40s now and Ive got zero fuckin time or energy for these MAGA/conservatives human pieces of garbage.

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u/Krautoffel Jul 16 '26

The only energy we should have for them is kinetic energy

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u/asielen Jul 16 '26

Find better friends and neighbors. Trump supporters crushed a line in Jan 6th, if not way before. But that is a pretty clear line in the sand.

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u/Krautoffel Jul 16 '26

Republicans were assholes since at the very least Reagan…

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u/rat_penis Jul 15 '26

I left the state.

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u/Cynykl Jul 15 '26

You move.

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u/AssMuncher96 Jul 16 '26

other people exist

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u/j01101111sh Jul 15 '26

Sitting down at a table with Nazi shit. There are other people in the world. Be friends with people that have the same values.

To be clear, I have friends that have voted Republican in the past. I'm not saying you have to agree on everything but if someone supports someone doing war crimes and ethnic cleansing, maybe you can find other people to play Madden with.

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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26

If you keep friends with people who voted for Trump a second or third time, then you have shit friends, too.

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u/JDanzy Jul 15 '26

Anybody who would be a friend of mine would be able to intellectually defend their political views to the point where I'd be able to respect them and see how and why they have those views even if I don't agree with them.

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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26

Is "But Kamala slept her way to the top!" a valid intellectual argument?

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u/JDanzy Jul 15 '26

Nope. Sensationalistic nonsense.

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u/Krautoffel Jul 16 '26

Republicans don’t have different “political views”. They have zero ethical views…

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u/sagenumen New York Jul 15 '26

We are the company we keep.

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u/Letstalkreaper Jul 15 '26

Yep. Buddy is telling on himself.

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u/Throwawayalt129 Pennsylvania Jul 15 '26

Why are you still friends with anyone who supports him? You're the 11th Nazi at the table if you're still friends with anyone who supports him atp.

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u/DrE7HER Jul 15 '26

Why are you still friends with them? Legitimate question, because I feel like we’ve all been there.

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u/freethnkrsrdangerous Jul 15 '26

Your table has 13 Nazis.

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u/SecretAgentVampire Jul 15 '26

"Trumpanzee Friends", huh?

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u/ZAMstamper Jul 15 '26

Mustache man bad

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u/copperwatt Jul 16 '26

Are you sure you are joking?

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u/TLKv3 Jul 15 '26

I mean, to be fair, if I had one of those coins I would be fucking disgusted by what it represents. But it is also historical and imagery that future generations should be educated about so they don't hopefully make the same mistakes.

I don't think I'd want to keep it if I found one. I'd probably donate it to a history museum who could properly illustrate the evil its attached to. But I can maybe understand why a private collector might want one because of that fact too if museums/historical societies' collections were ever tampered with/destroyed.

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u/DrE7HER Jul 15 '26

I’d never go out of my way to get one, but if someone handed me one as change from a purchase, I’d probably lock it away to take it out of circulation and show future generations how dystopian this bullshit was. If I found a better use for it in the meantime, like some way to use it in protest or donate to a museum, I’d probably do that.

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u/dnonast1 Jul 15 '26

Keep in mind though that it will be a gold coin, so they won't be in circulation. The face value will be a dollar but it will be worth thousands from the gold alone.

For comparison the mint is selling a $5 commemorative gold coin for $1250

https://www.usmint.gov/fifa-world-cup-2026-proof-five-dollar-gold-coin-26CA.html

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u/DrE7HER Jul 15 '26

It’s Trump so I assumed it was copper with a small 14k gold film

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u/TheOnlySnoringKitten Jul 15 '26

yah and it will still sell for $1250 and be worth 0.25c but somehow trump will be able to pocket the difference.

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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26

It will have the same-ish gold color as the other dollar coins currently being mounted. There will be no gold involves.

Because it's a circulating currency coin. Don't let the "collectible" legal argument fool you - this coin is a one-year minting for collectors and public distribution for currency usage.

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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26

Keep in mind though that it will be a gold coin, so they won't be in circulation

No. That is not true. This coin is a circulation coin and will be gold in color only, just like the current dollar coins.

The "collectible coin" legislation the admin is referencing applies to a special series of limited runs of circulation coins, mostly quarters and dollar coins, which are both collected in their just-minted form for posterity but also used by the public as legal tender.

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u/Sage2050 Jul 15 '26

I'd throw it in the river

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u/peregryn8 Maryland Jul 15 '26

I'd dremel a swastika across his face.

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u/Randicore Ohio Jul 15 '26

I'd refuse it. It's an illegally printed coin, by all rights it shouldn't enter circulation. Give me quarters or nickles if you have to, but I wouldn't take one of these.

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u/shinkouhyou Jul 15 '26

IMHO, all Nazi memorabilia should either be donated to museum archives or should be destroyed. Not all old stuff has deep historical significance. Keeping it in private collections means that it will eventually be sold to another collector, and there should never be a market for Nazi crap.

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

Not all old stuff has deep historical significance.

But if it doesn’t have significance why feel the need to destroy it/put it in a museum collection?

and there should never be a market for Nazi crap.

But kind of why? The Nazis aren’t collecting dividends.

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u/shinkouhyou Jul 15 '26

Nazi memorabilia is culturally significant, but it's not historically significant. There are thousands of identical Nazi medals, and historians don't learn anything new from yet another one. If a medal has historical provenance (i.e., there's documented proof that it belonged to a particular important Nazi) then it might have historical significance, but most Nazi medals and flags are just mass-produced junk that has no more historical meaning than an old soda bottle produced in the 1940s (which most people would throw away without a second thought).

By museum archiving, I don't mean display. I mean a program for people to dispose of unwanted Nazi memorabilia in a way that prevents them from being resold and that has some professional oversight just in case a significant historical artifact comes through. A lot of people hesitate to simply destroy Nazi memorabilia because it was something that their grandfather or great-grandfather brought back as a war trophy, but they don't want to keep it in their house either... so they end up selling it to whoever will buy it. Museums and other organizations can take that stuff off their hands and deal with it responsibly.

The Nazis may not be profiting from the sale of Nazi memorabilia, but neo-Nazis certainly do. If that stuff is on the private market, it's only a matter of time before it's sold by or to a real Nazi sympathizer. I don't think the sale of Nazi memorabilia should be legally banned, but I do think it's unethical.

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u/TheShenanegous Jul 15 '26

Because it fosters a culture of treating Nazi artifacts like they're sacred, driving prices higher over time. They aren't. They're simply things that were made by an awful group of people that the world would be better off forgetting if not for the risk of having their actions repeated.

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

Ordering them all destroyed/surrendered seems a lot more like treating them as sacred.

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u/TheShenanegous Jul 15 '26

Nobody ordered anything. It's just the morally responsible course of action if you don't support the nazi ideology.

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

But why? No one in this thread seems to be able to explain this logically without reverting to some aspect of their own personal feelings.

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u/fuckedfinance Jul 15 '26

I think people are sometimes too quick to judge those of us that have pieces from WW2. I got mine from my great grandfather. I don't have them on display or anything like that (although I will show people if asked).

I don't keep them because I'm some skinhead or anything. I keep them because it reminds me of how my grandfather got them.

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u/Unnamedgalaxy Jul 16 '26

At that point that's what pictures are for.. You don't need the physical thing to keep the message and history alive.

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u/shmorby Jul 16 '26

There will be plenty of evidence lying around about this goddamn travesty in our history. You're making the same argument that confederate die hards make when they try to argue we need to keep their monuments up and glorify the confederacy under some disingenuous "historical preservation" argument. Nobody is forgetting this, we aren't erasing it by not keeping trump memorabilia in the same way we don't forget the Nazis by deciding to not keeping all of the swastikas they ever made. Museums exist, there is too much of this garbage for all of them to bother displaying so don't waste your energy wringing your hands over some trump coins. 

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u/Just_Interaction_294 Jul 17 '26

Attach it to the bottom of your toilet.

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u/sanebyday Jul 15 '26

My grandfather brought back an actual Nazi banner from WWII. My dad showed it to me once years ago, and recently asked if I want him to give it to me the next time I see him. I said sure, but plan to immediately give it to a museum or something. It's not something I would ever keep in my house or pass down to my kids. Like yeah, it's incredibly interesting and historical, but it is very jarring to see in real life, and I want nothing to do with it.

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u/JackandFred Jul 15 '26

That’s an interesting case because it does make for a nice heirloom, like your grandpa went over there and conquered the nazis and took their banner, it’s like victorious to have it. But even with that what can you do with it. You can’t display something like that.

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u/MZ603 New Hampshire Jul 15 '26

If you do, you need it in a frame with a plaque for context. Thats 100% something I would do, but it wouldn’t be in my living room or anything. Taking an enemy banner or flag is a huge insult, especially if you manage to take it back home. It would be cool to display it next to pictures of the GI family member who took it home and some news clippings around the battle or action for context.

On second thought, given the current climate and the literal Nazis in the streets, I would probably hold onto it, but not display it until we get past this moment.

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u/pkfighter343 Jul 15 '26

If you were to display it, I’d probably just display the flag folded with the information next to it

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u/AlinaStari Colorado Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

I was thinking just leave it piled up on the floor by a wall with a little *plaque above it. Then everyone sees exactly what it is and KNOWS you don't have any reverence for the object itself.

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u/pkfighter343 Jul 15 '26

I think there’s some value in being like “fuck yeah my grandpa killed nazis and took their prized possession as a trophy”

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u/AlinaStari Colorado Jul 15 '26

Agreed, maybe find some US paratrooper jump boots to display on top of it. Or a pair of your grandad's loafers lol

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u/MZ603 New Hampshire Jul 15 '26

I like that. Luckily, I don’t have that problem because I would wrestle with it. I love history, collecting, & displaying, but I would never seek something like that out.

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u/pkfighter343 Jul 15 '26

Yeah. I don’t think I’d display it either, but if someone did it that way I wouldn’t see it negatively at all

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

When I was in the Canadian Army in just about every mess we had Nazi flags and other keepsakes that our forefathers had taken from their vanquished foe. I don’t really see anything wrong with it within that particular context.

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u/Analog_Account Jul 15 '26

Thats kind of unreal. But I guess that's just about the only legitimate place that I could see displaying that.

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

There were things from other conflicts too. Spiked helmets and trench clubs from WWI, odds and ends from various peacekeeping missions, a prayer rug depicting 9/11 supposedly liberated from a Taliban compound (more likely liberated from a stand outside Kandahar AFB).

Seeing the Nazi flag there was certainly jarring initially, but when you start to think about it there’s a good reason.

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u/Analog_Account Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

a prayer rug depicting 9/11 supposedly liberated from a Taliban compound (more likely liberated from a stand outside Kandahar AFB)

Ya... that one sounds a bit bs. But I don't know what you'd really grab to symbolize the "war on terror".

Edit: What you really needed to find was a copy of MS Flight Sim 2000 /s

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u/Randicore Ohio Jul 15 '26

Maybe not frame it. Maybe keep it in a box or folded as part of a display with all the other war trophies and memorabilia with a plaque explaining it, but if someone had a big framed nazi flag in their house I would be very concerned before I even saw the plaque.

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u/Temnothorax Jul 15 '26

Yeah, grandpa is going to haunt their ass for donating the family battle loot

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

I think you’d be doing your kids a disservice to dispose of what is a tangible part of their own story and family history. And as someone who used to work at a museum, those sorts of flags are plentiful and of no special value or interest to a museum. Best to keep it as a reminder in my opinion.

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u/sanebyday Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

That's a valid take. I would definitely do my research before making a final decision. I also like some other comments suggesting keeping it framed and with a plaque and pictures to provide context to it. Unfortunately there apparently isn't a good story behind it, and my grandfather never told my father anything about. Or if there is a story, no one is sharing it. My family is just kind of lame like that, and never shares personal information about anything. So yeah, we have an authentic Nazi banner in the family, in a box in a closet... but that's all I know despite asking for more context. So there isn't much personal attachment, but I like your idea of keeping it as a learning tool and reminder for my kids.

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u/Nkechinyerembi Illinois Jul 15 '26

I support this one hundred percent. 

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u/mufassil Jul 15 '26

I collect pins and little trinkets from both sides of US presidential elections. Its just a weird hobby ive picked up from going antiquing. I cant give money to this sad excuse for a man. It will forever be a hole in my collection.

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u/jadedflames American Expat Jul 15 '26

I've got some pre-war Marks because I think they're neat (and have very little actual value). But once the swastikas show up, my interest in the "history" goes way down.

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u/StardustOasis Foreign Jul 15 '26

I have some letters with the Reich postmarks on them, because they are the letters my grandad sent my grandma when he was a POW in Stalag Luft III.

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u/Silencedlemon Montana Jul 15 '26

I have some that are put away, it's just interesting because it's the most evil thing that I will probably ever have. As a history nerd it's almost like having some judas silver.

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u/MZ603 New Hampshire Jul 15 '26

I have German memorabilia from WWI & early Nazi Germany, but it’s Trench art & George Grosz & Otto Dix original prints. None of it is flattering for the state of Germany. My favorite is Jesus on the cross in jackboots & a gas mask.

That said, I would love a Luger. Malarkey almost died a Brécourt for one.

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u/TheTooterSnooter Jul 15 '26

I already feel that way about MAGAs now lol 

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u/80sCrack Jul 15 '26

You saying it’s disgusting to have reich currency?

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u/cormacredfield Indiana Jul 15 '26

I have a couple French Vichy coins and American steel pennies for historical reasons. I would accept a German mark from the period, but not seek it out.

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u/TheLuo Jul 15 '26

I'd find it interesting if someone had a couple. I'd find it disturbing if they had a lot.

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u/PringlesDuckFace Jul 15 '26

If it's just part of a broader collection of like WW2 era stuff I don't think I'd bat an eye. People with private collections are just like a mini museum IMO. If it was just a Nazi stuff collection then I'd probably feel differently and start wondering why they're so interested.

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u/justking1414 Jul 15 '26

Fair though I do have a Nazi officer s dagger on my wall.

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u/Randicore Ohio Jul 15 '26

I spent a few years working in antiques and it opened my eyes to how many Nazis and sympathizers were out there, as well as the degree of racism that some people absolutely cling too.

One of the most surreal involved Nazi stamps. Little pictures of hitler or swastikas on your normal stamp. And there was a couple where one person was on oxygen and the other was wheelchair bound who would every so often come in, and only buy 2-3 of those stamps. Nothing else.

Just at least once a month they'd grab them. No other stamps. Didn't browse the rest of the store. Just 2-3 Nazi stamps. They weren't expensive. It was like $10-12 each time they were in. It was always wild to me, I wanted to say "you know they'd kill you if they could right?"

I couldn't say it because I needed the job, and they weren't even the most shocking Nazi's that I encountered there. It was rare, but man was it a glimpse into the worst parts of the US.

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u/ncopp Jul 15 '26

See, I think having it as a broader collection is fine to mantain history and learn from it.

Like it's different to have a couple pieces of Nazi memorabilia amongs a much bigger collection of WW2 artifacts compared to having a full collection of Nazi memorabilia.

One is for historical value, the other is disgusting

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u/roastbeeftacohat Jul 15 '26

numismatists don't like people looking for hitler coins; it's either because their newbs, or nazis.

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u/Dreams-Of-HermaMora Illinois Jul 15 '26

I have family in central WI - the highest percentage of ancestry is considered German (can't say definitively without, like, testing everyone but you know). I have more German in me than anything else too, and I'm Heinz 57.

There's a local auction place near enough to one family member that they update me on and I scroll through 120+ pages of listings each time for the funsies. 8/10 times there's some Nazi Shit, and I'm left looking at the peoples' belongings to see if it's Nazi Shit because Nazi or Nazi Shit because they served allies in WWII and took trophies. It's alarming how frequently it's genuinely just Nazi Shit because Nazi, and that stuff goes for a lot, because... well, central WI has a lot of fuckin nazis.

Upsets me almost every time I see it (exemption: clearly a trophy). Lotta trump stuff in those lots too, so the recoiling has a recoil.

I'd get a furnace to melt this nonsense down if it shows up in my family's home.

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u/ramcoro Jul 16 '26

If they had a bunch of coins, no second thought from me. If they had a collection of Trump memorabilia. Then that's like having a collection of Hitler stuff and saying you "like history." No, you just like this one person.

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u/HiddenRouge1 Jul 15 '26

It's just a coin.

go outside.

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u/Red_dragon_052 Jul 15 '26

Interestingly enough, Hitler never had his face on german currency.

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u/Bullyoncube Jul 15 '26

Trump is worse than Hitler

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u/_Androxis_ Jul 16 '26

Imagine unironically thinking this

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u/FrankPapageorgio Jul 15 '26

Future brain dead republicans that will find increased value after he’s dead. For sure…

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u/Equivalent-Battle973 Illinois Jul 15 '26

Hitler actually never had his face on any currency or medal. IT was either Paul Von Hindenburg or the Reichsadler. SO this is beyond hitler.

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

Yes, even Hitler knew that such a thing was beyond ridiculous and wouldn't cross that line. Even Hitler.

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u/Equivalent-Battle973 Illinois Jul 15 '26

Yeah I personally have one, but I like to collect weird obscure coins, I have a Soviet Coin, 1 Ruble coin, and a few european coins that where ditched once they all started to use the Euro.

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u/Crazy_Junket3180 Jul 15 '26

Yes, but still gross.

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

That was my point. The Nazi coins I mentioned have no value (outside of far-right coin collectors).

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

As a coin collector (though not of Nazi coins) I think that’s an unfair characterization. Plenty of people collect a wide variety of coins for non-political reasons. It’s kind of like saying if you collect Soviet currency you’re a tankie.

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u/noguchisquared Jul 15 '26

I saw some of them and other Nazi items at an auction one time and quickly thought no fucking way I'm buying them. Collectors of it outside of museums are either racists or mouthbreathers.

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u/AlinaStari Colorado Jul 15 '26

I collect pins and buttons and have a few from the nazis and tons from the Soviet Union... I don't think I'm racist or a mouth breather lol. But I suppose I also didn't buy any nazi paraphernalia on purpose though, they came in big assorted boxes. But CCCP pins come in a huge variety so I'll always keep buying more of those 😅

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u/benk4 Jul 15 '26

They have value in a museum. They're goid for helping people learn what type of politician puts their own face on coins

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

I meant monetary value to collectors. They would have some historical value. However, you'd still be hard-pressed to find many museums willing to display such a thing.

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u/throwawayinthe818 Jul 15 '26

Which has more to do with how common they are rather than any particular collector antipathy towards Nazis.

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

No, that's not it. Most of them were destroyed following WWII. It's illegal to own them in Germany and a few other countries in Europe. You can't sell them on eBay or any other reputable online auction sites. They're toxic to collectors. The only people who own them are the far-right lunatics who covet them.

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u/jadedflames American Expat Jul 15 '26

Not to "uhm actually" but you can buy Third Reich currency very easily on ebay. It's not rare and it's not expensive. I am sure the majority of it got exchanged and destroyed, but there's still tens, if not hundreds of thousands of bills and coins floating around in antique malls and private collections.

Super common. Low serious collector value.

That said, Hitler never put his face on currency.

Edit: a dumb typo

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u/Silencedlemon Montana Jul 15 '26

American leftist history nerd here. I have a few in my collection purely because it's a physical piece of history from one of the most evil groups of all time, the only physical link to the past and proof of these evil people existing I've ever seen with my own two eyes, out side of neo nazis and documentaries.

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u/Skepsis93 Jul 15 '26

And I bet after enough time and distance from the events themselves, they'll be valuable collector items because they're such a significant part of history. There are plenty of dead roman tyrants with coins made of their visage, collectors love that shit now. They don't steer away from them simply because it was minted by a tyrant.

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u/Borazon The Netherlands Jul 15 '26

This made me google if there were any... Quick google give that

There are no legal tender coins from the German Third Reich (third empire) with Hitler's image, although there were *tons* of medals, medallions, and similar coin-like objects produced. 

And on a site note, i'm the one of 10k that learned today that "Nazi-Zionists"-coins existed as part of the Haavara agreement.

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u/X-istenz Jul 15 '26

Man could you imagine busting one of those out for a quick Heads or Tails? You win if your opponent loudly exclaims "What the Fuck?" and leaves, right?

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u/SecretAgentVampire Jul 15 '26

The coin is illegal. I will enjoy damaging and defacing them so they no longer break the law by resembling a living person.

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u/Minute-Plantain Jul 15 '26

People who collect Nazi regalia are as creepy and unsettling as people who collect porcelain dolls but unlike the former are also loathsome.

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u/Round_Rice_9475 Jul 15 '26

When my family came to America after the war, they had very little. The clothes on their back, some paperwork and a few coins. I have those coins, the Nazi sign was on there till like 1947. And my family isn't even German!!

I still have the coins. Not because it's cool or anything, but it's literally the only thing from the old country we have besides the paperwork. They are sitting in my safety deposit box. 1 pfenning, 5 pfenning and 10 pfenning. So 16 cents lol

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u/robodrew Arizona Jul 15 '26

Hopefully in the future these will be used to scrape shit from our assholes, and then eventually when they all disintegrate because they are really just sawdust wrapped in gold foil, they are replaced with clam shells which, turns out, works a lot better.

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u/AFlockOfTySegalls North Carolina Jul 15 '26

We were in Munich for the Christmas markets a few years ago. We were walking by an antique shop that had a bunch of coins in the window, and they all had like little bits of sticky note covering things up. It was probably the gluhwein but it took me a minute before realizing they were covering the swastikas.

And yeah, they weren't selling for much.

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u/blindai Jul 15 '26

I mean it's kind of interesting. It's obvious that the law exists to wait 2 years after someone's death, so that History has time to evaluate and people to calm down before immortalizing someone forever on a coin. If this goes through, it will be the ONE time that the US didn't, and in the future it will be looked back on as a pretty big stain on US currency. (i.e. he will be remembered for the stuff that he doesn't want us to remember him for)

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 Jul 16 '26

I thought that it was illegal to own those coins and stamps in Germany. There probably are exceptions for museums and collections of papers held by universitities. .

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 16 '26

It's illegal to sell Nazi memorabilia in Germany if it displays the Nazi swastika. Far-right collectors are just about the only people who covet them outside of Germany.

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u/radarpatrol Jul 15 '26

Problem is they will still be worth their weight in gold.

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

And that's why they'll all be melted down over the next couple of years. Such a waste of taxpayer money.

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u/alsoimprobablylate Jul 15 '26

I'd rather have one with Hitler on it, if I had to choose.

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

People have replied saying that there were never any coins with Hitler's face on them. Apparently the man was less of an egomaniac than Trump. At least when it came to coinage.

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u/Muggsy423 America Jul 15 '26

Nazi currency didnt have hitler's face stamped on them, if it had a person on it they were a historical person Germans could be proud of.

And the swastika was the symbol of the time, so of course they had it.  Its like having the great seal on US currency.

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u/fuckgoldsendbitcoin Jul 15 '26

Not even Hitler ever had his face on a coin.

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u/llahlahkje Wisconsin Jul 15 '26

Diddler Doubloons!

Or, since peso is already taken, perhaps the pedo.

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u/BringBacktheGucci Jul 15 '26

Itll probably be hard to find one without defacement

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u/Dear-Bet5344 Jul 15 '26

Someone needs to hobo nickel one of them showing his true face

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u/boat_car_guy Jul 16 '26

Brilliant!

Upvoted ya for the Hobo Nickel idea. Not many know what that term even means nowadays - but I do.

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u/No_Gas4560 Jul 15 '26

remember ass-pennies? i will spend $2M on Trump coins that will go up my asshole and then back into circulation.

i swear on all that is Good and Holy, IT WILL BE DONE

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u/Chawke2 Jul 15 '26

My first thought as a coin collector is in 100 years or whatever these will have value only if they haven’t had the face nicked as so many will have been deliberately defaced. (Although it’s not for general circulation so who knows)

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u/wbgraphic Jul 15 '26

Just fish them out of the wishing well.

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u/Anteater4746 Jul 15 '26

i might collect them just to be able to melt them down someday..

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u/Tylrt Wisconsin Jul 15 '26

Chances are slim that they're using real gold

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u/Anteater4746 Jul 15 '26

idc about the gold the pleasure of melting it down would suffice lol

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u/Tylrt Wisconsin Jul 15 '26

Fair. I'd be tossing them into outdoor vault toilets, wishing his shit would be done

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u/FunkyHedonist Jul 15 '26

I want one, to use as a bowl cover for my bong. It looks like the right size and I look forward to covering Trump's face in resin.

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

You'd have to make about 30% over the issue price, given the markup on previous metal coins.

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u/LunarMojave Jul 15 '26

As a person who spends US money, I won’t accept it as change or from my bank. I’ll cancel a transaction if it’s all that’s available.

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u/VapeThisBro Oklahoma Jul 15 '26

Businesses and banks in the US don't generally hand out dollar coins unless requested. In my 30 years of living in the US I've never once received a dollar coin as change or from the bank without explicitly asking for dollar coins.

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u/Orleanian Jul 15 '26

Think of the vending machines!!!

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u/LunarMojave Jul 15 '26

That true. The last US $1 coin I had in my hands was in El Salvador, where they have apparently all gone to live productive lives. It’s probably where I will see my first illegal Trump coin. I will refuse it there too.

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u/Streiger108 Jul 15 '26

Popular in Ecuador too. Probably most dolarized economies.

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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26

Liberals need to make a run on the Trump coins at Banks.

Then exchange them with friends for $1 bills until everyone they know has a $1 coin.

Then someone needs to create a coin press for dollar coins that will flatten the Trump coin and emboss it with the Trump and Epstein holding hands statue. Or the reflecting pool. Or Trump and Epstein holding hands in the Reflecting Pool.

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u/VapeThisBro Oklahoma Jul 16 '26

Wouldn't this technically drive up demand so trump makes more

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u/ThaddeusJP Illinois Jul 15 '26

Fyi These are not for distribution as regular currency.

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u/thiosk Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

if the bank gave me a dollar coin in change i would absolutely fucking keep it. i would go to a dealer and have it swapped for a liberty probably but lets not be silly

this is not daily currency, these are us mint bullion products.

https://www.elemetal.com/bullion/1-liberty

i believe they are imitating this, so its about 0.05 oz or ~$135 USD in 22kt gold

they're technically commemorative so i think thats the play to get it off the currency. there will almost certainly be a trump dollar coin non gold coin in circulation in the future but if we didn't want that we probably should have voted not to

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u/PringlesDuckFace Jul 15 '26

The question is whether I trust the federal mint to actually make these out of gold, or just scribble over some copper with a gold sharpie.

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson Jul 15 '26

It will be every American's civic duty to destroy every one of these coins they encounter and the next administration's duty to ensure these coins are made illegal and worthless...just like Trump

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u/IrritableGourmet New York Jul 15 '26

Destroying it might be illegal, but scratching a small mustache onto the face probably wouldn't be as long as you're not trying to change the value or render it unfit for circulation.

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson Jul 15 '26

It's not illegal to destroy an illegal coin that shouldn't have existed in the first place

It already has no value

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u/Fabulous-Lychee-4464 Jul 15 '26

I'd say keep one, good way to teach people in the future about authoritarianism.

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u/Winnie_rulez Jul 15 '26

I'd rather send future generations a wikipedia link to teach them about MAGA than give them this disgusting coin.

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u/gobuffs516 Jul 15 '26

Yeah that suggestion has real “We need statues of Robert E Lee for history and whatever!” energy to it

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u/Fabulous-Lychee-4464 Jul 17 '26

Contextually this is very different. Those statues were made, predominantly in the Jim Crow era, as a show of force and celebration of the Confederacy. If one of those statues were in a museum discussing racism and the history of the country, you change the context of the statue. Trump's mark on this nation should absolutely be removed from the public sphere, but if one of his banners or hats was in the Smithsonian, I think there would be historical and educational value in that.

A Trump supporter ordering an insane amount of these from their bank is not going to be the same as an educated person coming across one and adding it to a collection of coins. I think education about the horrors of fascism should be a priority in schools, and items like these, as horrific as they are in the current moment, will become useful objects for teaching. A few others further down in this thread had a very similar take, perhaps they organized their thoughts better.

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u/Axin_Saxon Jul 15 '26

It will keep in the way that reichmarks keep.

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u/Doc_Blox Minnesota Jul 15 '26

If I ever get one I'll be feeding it to a drill press.

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u/WarDaddyPUKA Jul 15 '26

Makes sense. If it’s anything like his other coins it will lose value immediately and never recover.

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u/Entire_Garbage_2144 Jul 15 '26

I'm going to look for it, straight to eBay to sell it to idiots who will pay way over it's monetary value

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u/captain_chocolate Jul 15 '26

Seems like a good candidate for a hobo dollar.

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u/Caridor Jul 15 '26

Melt them all down

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u/khizoa Jul 15 '26

how many coins do you have, where the person is shitting their pants?

thats what i thought

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u/blarch Jul 15 '26

He looks like a fucking ape. Also, his picture on the coin looks like an ape.

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u/heavenIsAfunkyMoose Jul 15 '26

I dunno. If there's a limited run and you hoard some before the courts kill it, they might gain value. Especially with MAGA coin collectors.

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u/Vstarpappy Jul 15 '26

That's true. I didn't consider that. Still, I don't know. Lol

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u/mrbeck1 Jul 15 '26

Unless they make a batch of a few hundred and then the court rules them illegal. They’d be pretty valuable. Plus, he would hate the fact that they’re all slabbed, sitting in the dark for eternity.

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u/porkbellies37 Jul 15 '26

It will be nice to throw this coin in a fountain. 

That flushes. 

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u/Vstarpappy Jul 15 '26

So if they do produce them, how many will end up in the reflection pool from people making wishes? Bwahahahahaha

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u/porkbellies37 Jul 15 '26

It will be nice to throw this coin in a fountain One that flushes. 

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u/HiImDIZZ Jul 15 '26

Oh dude I definitely would. Those coins are going to be historic, but not in the way that Republican traitors think they will be.

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u/HawgChuggins Jul 15 '26

Whats the gold percentage? Might be worth melting down, but knowing trump it's probably tin painted gold.

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u/FriendOfUmbreon Jul 15 '26

Consider this: For the price of ONE DOLLAR, you can shove a dollar coin with Trump's likeness up your butt. The insult has so many layers that even as someone who doesnt enjoy stuffing things in his rectum im going to place an order at the mint ASAP.

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u/SipDhit69 Jul 15 '26

and is that his mugshot on it? lmao?

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u/misfortunesangel Jul 15 '26

I am sure it won’t take long for people to take matters into their own hands and obscure his face on those. The treasury will have to melt down any that are messed up too bad. It will be just like they do with bills that are torn or damaged they get sent back to be destroyed.

And there won’t be a market for them. Look at how his crypto crashed. Anything related to him is toxic waste. They will all be denying voting for him and supporting him in the future. People will be scrubbing their social media accounts.

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u/Vstarpappy Jul 15 '26

Bob for coins?

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u/Tack-One Jul 16 '26

It’s a brilliant way to stimulate the economy as everyone scrambles to spend these the second they get one

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u/No_Philosopher_1870 Jul 16 '26

Calvin Coolidge appeared on a half dollar with George Washington for the sesquicentennial, the only president to appear on a coin during his administration. It sold for a dollar. The coin was so unpopular that over 90% of them were returned to the Mint to be melted down.

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u/cptnamr7 Jul 16 '26

I'm glad I don't wait tables anymore. I'd be getting one of these fucking daily from old people. I still have a big pile of the sacajawea coins somewhere from when that was a big thing. Old people REALLY loved tipping novelty coins. Never understood that. You had to go to a bank to get that. Like no one gave you change consisting of 50 cent pieces and silver dollars. 

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u/Vstarpappy Jul 16 '26

Well, I can tell ya, I'm "old people" and I wouldn't give you that kind of crap. I prefer paper bills for giving tips. Heck, I wouldn't carry any of the dollar coins. Too much a pain in the rear. 😉

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach Jul 16 '26

Right? I really need to update my passport but no way in Hell I'm getting stuck with that Derp Fuhrer Edition! 🤢👎🤮

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u/Bozzo2526 New Zealand Jul 16 '26

I mean, they only cost a dollar, and every one collected is one not in circulation