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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | 12:38pm
Duke Ellington Becomes First African American on a U.S. Coin
great honor and bout damn time..you mean to tell MLK has no official coin status
Big ups and mega homage. Jazz legend Duke Ellington is the first African-American to appear on an American coin, the U.S. Mint says in introducing the latest in its line of state-themed quarters. Good site below has more
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For some time now people have been trying to get MLK on the one dollar coin but nothing yet.
they buggin’
Ellington looks white on the coin anyway.
Perhaps he should have gone on the penny? (or are you talking facial features?)
LOL!!! I didn’t think about it that way. I had to google Duke to see exactly what he looks like for real. Yeah its not a very good replica.
He looks like Colonel Sanders no?
the ol’ bronzeitis
mlk? there are more and other peple who are just as important if not more important than him who should be on a coin. harriet tubman, nat turner are a few.
yeah he’s just my 1st
I just read that Duke actually isn’t the first black on a coin. this first was on Missouri’s quarter which features louis, clark and a slave named York.
thats wzup, u should post it