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Today is an exciting day for numismatists.  (HT: Mary Katharine)

The second dollar coin in the new presidential series goes into circulation around the country on Thursday with the U.S. Mint hoping it can turn 18th century statesman John Adams into a 21st century marketing phenomenon.

After two famous flops in Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea, the U.S. Mint believes it now has the right strategy for success. But there are still plenty of naysayers around who believe a dollar coin will never gain wide acceptance unless the government gets rid of the dollar bill.

I know what you're thinking.  You want the coin, but you're afraid you're not going to be able to get the coin.  Relax.

"People who want the coin are going to be able to get the coin," Mint Director Edmund C. Moy said in an interview with The Associated Press.

See?

Now ponder this, misogynistic, pay-gap tolerating citizen: if the Adams coin succeeds where Susan B. Anthony and Randy'L He-dow Teton failed, does it suggest America's simply not ready for a woman to adorn a coin?

Well the joke's on us, because that's not actually John Adams' face you're looking at.  Have a click here and tell me the image isn't spitting.