I’m the Leprechaun!

Everybody knows that Leprechauns love gold, especially in coin form. The government couldn’t overlook this valuable information when designing the gold dollar in the late nineties. Gold coinage hadn’t been used for some time in this country, so most citizens would be ill equipped for fighting them. Our country was and is in no shape to risk lives.* Many hours went into researching a counter attack to evil leprechaun greed. Finally, a solution was found by a volunteer historian hailing from Vermont, James Castons. Though knowing very little about European gold grabbers, his extensive knowledge of American Indians led him to an economical evasion to a minting mishap. The answer was simple; leprechauns despise Indians. After many generations, this hatred has transformed into a deep fear in many cases. We know this is folly, for there have been no Indians for at least one hundred years, but leprechauns fear they are hiding, watching… waiting.

Long story short, the government slaps the most terrifying Indian ever conceived by story tellers on the front of the gold dollar, and the rest is history. USA: 1 Leprechauns: 0

* It is common Leprechaun policy to take the skin of it’s victims and sew it into a coin sack or pair of shoes.

-Ryan & MP

~ by marshmallowpete on April 30, 2008.