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Originally Posted by Chuck1981
I forget the exact rules, but doesn't someone have to be dead for a good amount of time (many many years) before a stamp can be made in their "honor"?
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Commemorative stamps or postal stationery items honoring individuals usually will be issued on, or in conjunction with significant anniversaries of their birth, but no postal item will be issued sooner than ten years after the individual's death. The only exception to the ten-year rule is the issuance of stamps honoring deceased U.S. presidents. They may be honored with a memorial stamp on the first birth anniversary following death.
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Don't think there is a similar prohibition on coinage as long as the perseon is dead. . An MJ half-dollar?
URGH!!
Of course Congress can change the rules anytime they want.
