QUOTE : The front side of the nickel featured the side profile of a dead Indian chief, complete with a zombified skull and a full headdress. The word LIBERTY floated near his forehead. The back side showed three Spanish ships making landfall. Above the ships, the words IS DEAD spanned across the sky. When betting, flipping a coin offers someone a fifty-fifty chance of winning and losing. This nickel was a metaphor for the predicament of Indian existence: fucked no matter which side the coin landed on.