If there are geographic roots for adages, New Mexico should be the source for "What's old is new again." It's one of the newest of our 50 states (admitted to the Union in 1912, it's number 47) but was technically here long before any other. Fittingly, the newest U.S. coin reflects a hint of that history.

In 1850 — well before it was a state — the New Mexico territory took in all of the present state as well as Arizona and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah. Now di ...

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