New Nickel Features Cheerful Jefferson

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WASHINGTON - After nearly 100 years of depictingpresidents in somber profiles on the nation's coins, the Mintis trying something different: The new nickel features ThomasJefferson, facing forward, with the hint of a smile.

"It isn't a silly smile or a smirk, but a sense of optimismthat I was trying to convey with the expression," says JamieFranki, an associate professor of art at the University ofNorth Carolina- Charlotte. His drawing was chosen out of 147entries.

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