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Amero design created by parody coin designer, Daniel Carr
Old-thinker
news | August 15, 2007
By Daniel Taylor
Pictures of the supposedly
designed and coined "Amero" have been making their rounds on the
internet lately, causing a stir among those aware of real proposals
for a common currency between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
It seems as though certain individuals have picked up on this design
and propagated the idea that it is a legitimate and official design
of the Amero currency to be distributed en masse.
Further
research reveals that the design comes from a known parody coin
designer named Daniel Carr, and is a collectable, fantasy pattern.
Pictures of the coin can be seen
on his website by clicking
here.
According to the website, the coin is to be a "private-issue
fantasy pattern."
"These private-issue fantasy
pattern coins will be struck as an annual series (until such
time as it is no longer legal to do so), starting in the latter
part of 2007.
Some pieces are available for
immediate delivery (see below). Others are currently offered at
a pre-issue discount (see below). Prices are subject to change.
The delivery date of pre-sale items is expected to be completed
by early October, 2007.
Final mintages will be
determined by sales. The 2007 issues will be available for order
until no later than December 31, 2007, and none will ever be
minted or available after that."
Carr is responsible for creating
"amusing parody designs" of coins such as the Sacagawea Dollar. As
the
coin collecting insider
website states,
"Coin designer
Daniel Carr
may be known as the designer of the Rhode Island and New York
Statehood Quarters,
but he is perhaps best known for a number of amusing parody
designs he has come up with over the years. He is the genius
behind the New York - Defiant Finger Tower and California -
FEMA’s Big One coins.
Carr has been quite
prolific in his coin designs over recent years. He has even
developed software for the design of tokens, medals, and
coins. In one of his recent stunts,
Carr applied
edge lettering
on a
Sacagawea Dollar
that reads DARWIN RULES and posted it on the Internet. While of
course the joke was appreciated by coin enthusiasts everywhere,
a more somber note was sounded by the
coin collecting
community when the realization set in that it isn’t so hard to
make
fake double edge lettering
on coins."
Plans for amero not hoaxed
Herbert Grubel, a top economist in
Canada and advisor to the Canadian Parliament wrote a paper titled "The
Case for the Amero:. The Economics and Politics of a North American
Monetary Union." Robert Pastor has echoed Grubel's call for a
common currency in a speech given to the Trilateral Commission in
2002. As Jerome Corsi writes in "The Late Great U.S.A,"
"As early as 2002, in a
speech given to the Trilateral Commission, Dr. Pastor
recommended the amero. In that speech he argued that Mexicans
and Canadians were ambivalent about adopting the American
dollar, "but they are more willing to become part of a single
country of North America and of a unified currency like the
amero, proposed by Herbert Grubel."
Steve Previs warned on CNBC of the
ramifications of the proposed amero
Don't be fooled by this hoax. At the
same time, it is important to realize that proposals for a common
currency for North America are well documented.
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