New Liberty Series

I disagree with the idea for the half. If new design halves are to be minted, they should mint a ton of them for general circulation and try to somehow breathe some life and circulation into the fifty cent denomination again.

If anything, there should be a "Liberty Half Dollar Coin" series of some type in which there is at least ONE new half design issued EVERY year, for maybe a "period" of 10 years, and NOT just for collector sets, or to order at a premium. GENERAL CIRCULATION Liberty Halves, and they should be automatically handed out to bank and credit union customers, unless they ask for something else.

Changing the design of the Liberty Half in a gap of every 10 years makes no sense, especially just for collector sets, because no one would even know they were out there, and the half circulation supported certainly wouldn't make an effort to get them, and break open expensive sets, just to circulate them.

And one more thing. If they are doing the dime, quarter, and (barely) the half, why are they not also doing the cent, the nickel and the dollar coin? They could have the Liberty Dollar Coin program start in 2017, just in time for the end of the Presidential dollar Coin series.

I would be all for Liberty on EVERYTHING "if" we could have circulating halves, either redesigned $1 and circulating $2 bills, or circulating $1 and $2 coins, and Liberty $200, $500, and $1,000 bills.

For some reason, I feel that we should use Lady Liberty strictly on coins, and leave the paper money to the Presidents, Statesmen and Treasury Secretaries. I can't imagine a Lady Liberty FRN, but maybe because I'm not as familiar with Liberty banknotes, and know of some of the Liberty coins.

So, if we kept the cent, and changed the metal compositions of all of the coins, I now think I would be all for Lady Liberty to return to all U.S. coinage denominations, but I would have to be shown some good examples of Liberty paper currency before I could make my decision on that. But, what about Lady Liberty coinage, and national landmarks and monuments, or events for our paper money? I liked Canada's old "Hockey Game" $5 bill, and I wish I could have gotten a few. I think a "Landing on the Moon $1,000 bill" (or $500 bill if not a $1,000 bill) would be awesome for a trbute to mankind. And a scene featuring a sled being pulled by a team of dogs with trees and snow covered mountains and such (maybe a "fox" in the scene ) on a $200 note to pay tribute to "Balto's serum sled run for the dyphtheria outbreak $200 bill" and the Iditarod Trail as a form of tribute to the dogs that run the Iditarod and dogs in general. That would be a great idea.

Does anyone here have any good ideas about what kind of scene for our currency notes, and Liberty images for our coinage?

I like your ideas.

How about Iwo Jima on currency? There's already a coin...but it would look great on paper money.

(The anniversary of that event was on the news today.)

i agree with silverstackerkid

We should bring back Lady Liberty on our coins. After all, they do SAY liberty on them, why not get the full package?

One problem: the average American non-collector would probably reject the liberty themed coins as "foreign" so a massive PSA campaign would be needed and even then...the levels of ignorance in the populace is simply staggering. Given the one-year issuance period would guarantee hoarding and thus failure of the coins. The dead presidents are here to stay probably until the end of ALL coinage.

What a mess it would be