Well, howdy there internet people? It's Bill again. So tonight we're going to talk about coins,

reds, definitions, correlations, all kinds of things.

But mainly we're going to talk about legends.

Love legends.

Love old legends, because they put you inside the mind of the people of the time, let you know what they thought,

let you know what they were afraid of, let you know how those beliefs created the scars of history that we still deal with today. They are a

link to the past. A good example of this is our coins. There's a legend surrounding U.S. coins, specifically two of them.

One, the Roosevelt Dime, the other of the Kennedy Half Dollar.

Keep in mind, both these guys were kind of liberal, right?

That's important.

Now at the neck of Roosevelt on the dime, you'll see the letters J.S.

And at the neck of Kennedy on the half dollar,

you'll see what appears to be a hammer and sickle.

Now, in the 1960s, because of the red scare

and how deeply that impacted the United States.

This was proof positive that the Soviets had infiltrated the U.S. government

to the deepest levels and were sending coded messages back to Moscow.

The J.S. was said to have stand for, said to have stood for Joseph Stalin.

In reality, it stood for John Scenic, the guy who designed the dime,

and the Hammer and Sickle is really a gian r, Gilroy Roberts, the guy who designed the half dollar.

But that legend exists. It was believed. It still has to be debunked today.

Because of those scars that were created, the very idea, socialist, that term, it now gets leveled as an insult. You're a socialist and maybe if you're

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