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United States
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I wish the mint would consult with other world mintage like the RCM. They have some very bold designs including using different sizes like squares and such. The mintage designers can only work with the specifications they are given so the fault lies with the administration. |
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United States
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I personally like most of the new designs and alot of them have alot of very artistic qualities to them take the new America the Beautiful Quarter ,they all have very unique and very bold designs on the reverse. Although I'm still not impressed with the washington Obverse. I would like to see an update to the Dime it is definatly time for a change. The current nickels I do think are very crappy and need another change. I do like the new shield penny design but think they should find something a little less plain. My absolute favorite has to be hands down the silver eagle these are beautiful coins |
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United States
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Coinut I dont think they will ever change the size or shape because of vending machines,that would hurt the vending machine buisness big time.
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United States
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One of my favorite designs is the Walking Liberty half dollar. I had several of those years ago but don't have any now. Maybe I'll find one later someday. |
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United States
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awgheadhunter- That's one of the problems, they need to think outside the box. I am not sure if the mint ever solicits the public's opinions but like any potential new product most companies will market test before committing to production, same should be done for the mint. No one ever said that we can't make low mintage numismatic coins of different designs for all denominations. I was shocked at how mundane the US Mint's web page looks compared to the RCM. I was impressed with the variety, mintage and quality that the RCM puts out. |
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Not everyone would agree with you about the RCM, unfortunately. They have a HUGE bewildering variety of colorized and special issue coins to frustrate even the most seasoned Canadian collector. They have too many NCLT coins compared to the US. |
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I'll toss my opinion in here also. Shield cent. I like it and I think it's just that we've not used to it yet. It's only been out for just over a year and a half. Jefferson nickel. I don't care for the new obverse. It doesn't seem like a coin, it seems like a souvenir token you'd get when you visit Monticello. Roosevelt dime. It's a "classic" coin and the most "coin like". Washington quarter. It's ugly after all the changes. There is way too much writing on the obverse and the mint should never have started with the ATB series. They're doing it just to make money after the success of the State Quarter series. I wish they would have continued on with the classic Washington quarter and if they wanted to mint all these State, territory and ATB series they could have, but let the collectors just continue on with a regular quarter. Kennedy half: attractive coin the mint hasn't messed with...... yet. (I hope I didn't give them any ideas so they start with endless commemoratives). Presidential dollar: I don't like them but they'll continue on with them for another 5 years. I've mentioned numerous times I don't like dead Presidents on coins. There's more to America than a dead President. Sacagawea dollar: this design is pleasing and I wish it was the only dollar coin minted. My biggest complaint are all the ATB Quarters and Presidential dollars. Just come up with coinage that isn't covered with dead Presidents and is attractive. |
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To the original poster: sounds like you're veering off into the banknotes field, where there are tons and tons of good designs world-wide. In fact, just collecting world coins instead of American all the time will get your interest back up.
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United States
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Yeah collecting is a matter of taste. Some one posted back a ways that back in the day people didn't much like the Barber coins. I have to agree, I never much cared for the look of the Barbers. I think one of the most beautiful obverse's is the Peace dollar although I don't give the reverse the same high marks but it's not too bad. I like Walking Liberty halves, and Franklin's have a nice look to them too. Nice reverse with the liberty bell. Kennedy 1/2's are great too. As for newer coins, I'm not too keen on the new quarters some are better than others. Of the modern dollar coins again some are better than others with my favorites being (so far) The Lincoln and I've always liked the SBA. Ike dollar have a nice design too. I kinda like the reverse of the shield cent. It looks sort of retro. I loved the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial cents. Worst coin the mint has ever minted.. In my book it has to be the 911 commemorative. What a dog. I still think someone designed it using a computer running windows 3.1 I could go on and on because like most people here, coins are one of my favorite subjects to talk about. But I'll stop now. |
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United States
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Conspiracy theroy alert. I think the government was hoping for some hoarding of the State Quarters by the public so that they could crank out the quarter by the billions and hoping the public from each state and collector would hold quantities of each to reduce the number in circulation to reduce the effects of inflation etc. I personally think it is a time for a complete change to all denominations of the current coinage. I also think the national parks quarter have more eye appeal and better detail than the State Quarters but have less collector appeal than the State Quarters due to personal emotional attachment. Hopefully the slight and slow design changes to the cent reverse and Jefferson nickel obverse will slowly ween the public off of the current coinage into some completely new designs. |
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United States
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In general the classic designs (Walking Lib half, Standing Lib quarter, Mercury dime, Buffalo nickle) are MUCH BETTER than the modern stuf - IMO. |
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Question for you history buffs? How well did gold coins circulate back in the day? I see the low mintages and think that the Eagle program had to have been a failure- but then I wonder if I'm looking at it all wrong.
If the government wanted to get serious about circulating coins and phasing out the $1.00 bill- why don't they make a dollar coin that has some intrinsic value. Maybe make it out of a low grade silver alloy? say 10% or 20%... Even if people hoarded them, they'd still get out in the wild.
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During United States history gold coins were typically hoarded up by citizens as well as people outside the United States. Due to the high intrinsic value and portability of "wealth" they never were used much in circulation. Heck, there were private companies that had their own gold coins minted due to the shortage of coinage. Circulating coins with "intrinsic" value near the face value will always be hoarded and not contribute to circulation which has serious effects on national economy. When money is "packed away" it reduces the flow of money and thereby stangnates the economy. It is a very complex issue but if you start to get a large percentage of your currency not seeing the light of day it can do weird things to inflation, hence we don't have coins of intrinsic value anymore.
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I agree with CD God that the rotating designs are far more about making a profit for the mint than they are about commercialism. It was the idea that new designs might make a profit that really sold the government on the idea in the first place. It succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Now days there's a large measure of national and state pride that is continuing to drive it. Quote:Why is it so hard to design beautiful coins these days? I cannot stand the Washington quarter's obverse since the 1990s, I think the Lincoln Shield cent and the Memorial Cents are ugly, the Presidential dollars are horrible front and back... and most of the commemoratives that have come out since 1982 lack the type of artistic sweep of the pre 50s commemoratives. I don't think Congress will authorize the displacement of the presidents on our coinage- which is why we are going to go through 20 years of vanity quarters and ten years of vanity dollars... but what hope does the hobby have going forward if modern issued coins remain so ugly? What do you guys think about the state of our coin design? People quit collecting moderns long before the designs were mangled and the relief lowered. As soon as silver was removed from the coinage collectors simply quit collecting any new coins, even the cent and nickel which were unchanged. I don't really believe the changes are all that severe really. Changing the eagle reverse quarter affected only the '94 to '98 issues. I doubt time will be so harsh on these changes as we are. I already like the '97 revisions a little bit. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Kennedy half: attractive coin the mint hasn't messed with...... yet. Actually, they did mess with it back in 1975, celebrating the bicentennial with the extremely boring depiction of Independence Hall on the back. Edited by jpsned
10/23/2011 10:23 pm
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