Round 2 Of America The Beautiful Quarters?!

I don't think they'd want to extend the program after '21, since there are provisions for a permanent reverse for '22. Also, I'd think that on the back of some of the Mint's employees' minds is 2032: Washington's tricentennial and the centennial of the Washington quarter. We'll probably get a new round of special designs then, not unlike the 2009 cents.

Still, it would be interesting to see the 1932 obverse return after a 24-year hiatus come 2022.

Not going to happen, because...



Sorry.


I agree.

If you are really into the designs buy a puck of your favorites. They'll blow the two bits out of the water any day.

The Treasury secretary must decide in the ninth year of the current program, i.e. in 2018 whether or not to continue a second round of ATB designs featuring a second site in each of the 56 states, territories and jurisdictions. The series as a whole has been far better executed than the haphazard design by committee State Quarters.

Personally I don't mind the revolving reverses though 4 or 5 per year is pushing it. It keeps the coinage interesting and importantly circulating. Each denomination should have a different obverse or reverse every year. The cent could be natural flora/fauna including sites, the nickel revolves with culture and cultural institutions, the dime could be government including dead presidents, the quarter focusing on armed forces and programs associated with the armed forces, the dollar coin on some aspect of the nation's historical events including the NA series. Any coin larger than $1 should just have representations of liberty and probably be silver clad.

Therefore, Fox, your proposed famous dogs series could be on the cent or whatever the lowest denomination that will be. I agree that the half dollar needs to come back into use, but I have a much more radical solution to the concerns of the vending machine industry. GET RID OF THE CENT AND THE PAPER $1. Make the new 5c the size of the current cent with steps to its eventual elimination also, but make in aluminum with a gold color sheen unreeded edge. Keep the dime the basic unit and it's current size. Drop the quarter to the size of the current nickel and leave reeded. Bring the half to the size of the current quarter plain edged. Now the dollar coin is correctly sized in proportion to the others. The former half dollar coin sizing could become a $2 or $5 coin. Such currency conversion will be extremely confusing and painful to the public at large, but the coinage of the US is overdue to for another overhaul. What was practical 50 years ago is impractical now. The United Kingdom went from sterling to decimal coinage in the early 70's and the British people did not riot as a result and recently the conversion of many of the EC countries to the €. The US just needs four basic circulating coins: $1, 50c, 25c, & 10c.

I honestly like the new designs for the quarters. Maybe not every design would be my favorite but it gives me something modern to collect and look for. Especially once my son grows up and (hopefully) gets into collecting it will be fun looking for the different designs. Plus since other coins are one design I feel like I only really need one of each so collecting Franklins, cents, nickels and all that aren't that fun just for the years (except Kennedy halves I started that long ago and feel the need to finish the pdss). To each their own though!

I like the ATB Quarters, but I think simply extending the program would be a lazy thing to do from an innovation standpoint.

Since 2010?

No they wouldn't . As I have said before how does changing the design on a coin no one sees make them want to use it? You have to get them using it first and then do the design changes to get their interest up.