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Unread 01-12-2022, 12:42 PM
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I'm not sure it matters, but it may be worth pointing out that hardly anyone uses coins these days. My only use for quarters is to buy food from a vending machine at the zoo to feed the ducks and goats. There's a sign at the register of the supermarket I shop in that says there is a nationwide coin shortage and asks customers paying cash to come up with exact change if possible.

Also, it's my understanding that Maya Angelou's image will be on the back side of the coin, with George Washington still on the front (though a version created by a woman many years ago), so it's not exactly the same thing as being the featured person honored.

US stamps have already commemorated Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden, as well as white poets such as Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Joseph Brodsky, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams.
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