"Ja*z musician Duke Ellington has become the first black American to be prominently featured on a U.S. coin in circulation with the release of a quarter honoring the District of Columbia."

The morons are the people I heard debating this at a coin shop last week. It went like this:
"Do you have the District of Columbia quarter?"
"Yes, right here"
"Who is this? - oh, Duke Ellington. Why is he here?"
"I'm not sure. I heard he was born in Washington, D.C."
"But that's not the same as the District of Columbia"
"No, it's not. I'm not sure why he's on there if he was born in Washington, D.C."

[by the way, one of the words in my original post is on the "naughty" or "spam" list - guess which one!]