# Penis on U.S. currency!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 18, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473 "2006-01-18T04:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RandomLetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@RandomLetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandomLetters)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/41 "2006-01-21T11:58:13Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > I’m glad I don’t live over there. You 'muricans and your buffalo wang money. Creepy. At least we don’t actually _use_ one dollar coins down here - that would just be loony. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/42 "2006-01-21T22:19:45Z")
> [@](#): > > If memory serves me, Michelangelo’s David has appeared on Italian currency. I don’t know about David, but Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man (the guy with four arms and four legs inside the circle and square) is the obverse of the current [Italian 1 Euro coin](http://www.yeatsvision.com/Images/VitruvianEuro.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![ombre3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/da6949/32.png) [@ombre3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ombre3)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/43 "2006-01-21T22:35:24Z")
Not to be too troublesome, or not understanding human anatomy but---- In the picture ----doesn’t the penis seem to be a little high on the body? ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/44 "2006-01-21T23:43:13Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > I’m glad I don’t live over there. You 'muricans and your buffalo wang money. Creepy. Do I detect a slight trace of Canadian Penis Envy? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/45 "2006-01-22T00:17:06Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > That provides opportunity for a **lot** of metaphors about U.S./Canadian relations, which I sincerely hope we’ll avoid getting into! 🙂 I wonder… if I take a American buffalo penis nickel, and put it into a little box with a Canadian beaver nickel… how much change will be in that box after a month or two? ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/46 "2006-01-22T00:37:28Z")
> [@ombre3](#): > > Not to be too troublesome, or not understanding human anatomy but---- > > In the picture ----doesn’t the penis seem to be a little high on the body? Looks about [right](http://www.ontfin.com/Stock/Animals/Bison2.jpg) to me. Not that it has anything to do with _human_ anatomy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/47 "2006-01-22T00:56:17Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > Looks about [right](http://www.ontfin.com/Stock/Animals/Bison2.jpg) to me. Not that it has anything to do with _human_ anatomy. 😉 Thank goodness for that, because I think that hair growing from the foreskin would freak me right the hell out. And you know how gross unshaved legs look in nylons? Imagine a condom over a fuzzy foreskin! ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/48 "2006-01-22T01:56:42Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > I wonder… if I take a American buffalo penis nickel, and put it into a little box with a Canadian beaver nickel… how much change will be in that box after a month or two? That will only work with paper clips, coins will only breed under seat cushions! ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/49 "2006-01-22T02:03:29Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > [Sure enough – there is.](http://www.b3tards.com/uploaded.php?file=fivedollartrick.jpg) > > It’s not exactly the Queen –it’s her pearl necklace transformed into teeth. But hey. As long as we’re going way off track, check out the [Land O Lakes Indian girl’s knockers](http://www.zooass.com/whatever/pocahooters/). ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/50 "2006-01-25T01:07:01Z")
In Canada, not only do we have a beaver on our nickel, check out the lion and unicorn on our [Coat of Arms.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Canada) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/51 "2006-01-25T01:34:51Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > In Canada, not only do we have a beaver on our nickel, check out the lion and unicorn on our [Coat of Arms.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_Arms_of_Canada) Hmm. Main thing I notice is the four quadrants of the shield: English-Scots-Irish-French. Was there some decree barring Welsh immigration to Canada? Or were there just not enough coal mines to lure them away? ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/52 "2006-01-25T02:02:22Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > …it’s not the penis itself. It’s just long hair growing from the foreskin. It certainly _looks_ like a dick. ---
**Author:** ![tyciol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@tyciol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tyciol)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/53 "2010-02-01T23:34:21Z")
It looks like the Australian government made sure to properly snip their kangaroos before minting their animal coin: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Australian\_One\_Dollar\_Rev.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Australian_One_Dollar_Rev.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/54 "2010-02-02T00:45:49Z")
> [@A.R.Cane](#): > > How the hell did that get past Ashcroft? Ashcroft was Attorney General, head of the Justice Department. Design of coins/currency is done by the Treasury Department. So he probably never saw it until it was released, just like the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-on-u-s-currency/340473/55 "2010-02-02T00:51:49Z")
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