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I found two nickels in my pocket Monday that I thought were foreign coins. I had not seen these types before. One coin had changed the front - from Monticello to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the other coin had changed the back portrait of Jefferson from the old side profile to a 3/4 profile. They also put Liberty in Jefferson's handwriting above the 2010 date which was a nice touch I thought. Too bad they don't have all the printing done in script instead of those boring Roman capital letters. They think somebody actually reads that stuff, doesn't know a nickel when they see one, gotta be 'spelled out clear' so we can't say it's a silver dollar?

Anyway, I kept trying to photograph them to get a good image, but the reflections made it difficult, so I decided to put all the shots in here, and number them so we can decide which ones we like best. I decided for my own curious reasons that my favorites are:

8 - because it's kind of weird looking and a pale Venetian red.
5 - because it looks like a night boat ride.
2 - looks like a Francis Bacon.
1 - because he looks like an ultra liberal president: a good omen.
4 - Jefferson is laughing even though Texas wrote him off.

So? What do You think?