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Article: Redesigned Jefferson nickel offers chance to right a wrong
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 21, 1988
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Should members of the 100th Congress see fit to pass H.R. 3314,
which calls for modernizing the design of coins currently in
circulation, they will have an opportunity to correct an ignominious
deed of 150 years past.
Legislation pending before the House Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs and Coinage calls for the designs of the half-dollar,
quarter, dime, nickel and penny to be brought up to date. Even
though the presidential likenesses on the coins will be changed, the
presidents currently represented will remain the same.
The five-cent coin portrays a profile of Thomas Jefferson
adapted by designer Felix Schlag after Houdon's marble bust in
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. There is ...