According to the United States Code, which has a special section for commemorative coins: “No coin issued under this subsection may bear the image of a living former or current President, or of any deceased former President during the 2-year period following the date of the death of that President.”

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  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Even the Nazis never put Hitler on a coin, and they were in power issuing ‘reichsmarks’ with swastikas on them for ~13 years, supposedly Hitler said he should not appear on coins until they had won the war.

    So this is real ‘glorious leader’ energy akin to North Korea.

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      8 days ago

      Fucking hell I’m in a world where Hitler was demonstrably less of an egomaniac than the president of the United States