Thanks for the update dtilque. I thought since James Monroe was depicted on the 1999 quarter with Washington crossing the Delaware that he might also be on the 2021 quarter that also depicts Washington crossing the Delaware. But that depiction is different from the earlier quarter and no one is holding a flag. Any thoughts on this?
Also, I agree we should not count Washington twice when he is already on the other side of the coin.
We only know the guy is meant to be Monroe because the artist of that famous work told us so. Without checking, I doubt if young Lieutenant Monroe had actually sat for a portrait. The newer coin looks like a specially commisioned work and the artist chose not to include Monroe. After all, it’s not a depiction of James Monroe crossing the Delaware.
It appears that dtilque and I both missed another depiction of Theodore Roosevelt. He is also depicted on the reverse of the 2016 Theodore Roosevelt National Park issue of the America the Beautiful quarters program.
Eisenhower, Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, both Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden were all on the reverse of the Eisenhower dollar coin, but you have to zoom way in to see them.
Obama was living in Indonesia at the time of the Apollo 11 mission. The reverse of the Eisenhower dollar only shows the western hemisphere of Earth so I don’t think Obama was depicted.
What about Carter?
Both high-quality nitpicks, of course.
Eisenhower passed away about 2 1/2 months before the Apollo 11 mission.
I don’t remember that. Or is this a joke? Got a pic?
The reverse side of the coin shows an Eagle landing on the moon to commemorate the 1969 Apollo mission. There is also a partial image of Earth as seen from the moon. Even if the image had the kind of resolution to see the other living people mentioned Eisenhower would have already been dead and buried by the time of the Apollo Landing. The image was based on a mission patch designed by astronaut Michael Collins.
Okay, a joke. Great. Like the Michael Collins picture of the LEM with the earth in the background. Everyone who ever lived is in the frame of that photo, except for Michael Collins.
And we also both missed another Thomas Jefferson. There’s a partial image of Mount Rushmore on the South Dakota quarter in the America the Beautiful series(2017). It only shows parts of Washington and Jefferson, not the other two.
I think you meant to type 2013.
In St Louis, that’s what they gave out
I have a different answer to the original question (over a year old).
I show an old picture of my parents, my sister and me. I am 4 and my sister is 2. I ask how many adults are in the picture.
The answer could be two. There are 2 adults and 2 children.
Or, it could be four. My sister and I are adults now. So there are 4 adults.
John Adams was not a US president in the picture. He became one later.
Okay… back to the coins or whatever.