At least we don’t actually use one dollar coins down here - that would just be loony. 
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.
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?
Do I detect a slight trace of Canadian Penis Envy?
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?
Looks about right 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!
That will only work with paper clips, coins will only breed under seat cushions!
As long as we’re going way off track, check out the Land O Lakes Indian girl’s knockers.
In Canada, not only do we have a beaver on our nickel, check out the lion and unicorn on our Coat of Arms.
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?
It certainly looks like a dick.
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
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.
This thread is pretty old–and we call that a Zombie thread when it gets reopened. Generally better to start a new thread and link to the old one if necessary.
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