One of the fun facts about American coinage is that almost all of it is still legal tender and because the sizes haven't changed in the last hundred years, you still find things like this in change on occasion.

I'll take your word for it. I definitely know a number of people like that, but I'd like to hope they are a vocal minority.

Fourth gen Italian-American here ... most of us don't care. I'd like to see a more positive example of an Italian with ties to America lauded, but Columbus's ancestry is an interesting historical puzzle and has no bearing on modern Italian-Americans.

I'm struck by how bizarre the "mask" comment is in the article, as if death masks weren't something done to preserve the likeness of the dead by Europeans for centuries.