Ideas About Future Commemoratives?

Look on the bright side eaglefoot, the palladium should be about half the price of the gold

Pretty cool link to the Orleans mint, Biokemist6. I'd like to see some of those New Orleans minted coins myself. Was the Confederate coin, the cent or 50 cent piece minted there, or was that in Charlotteville? Just curious if anyone knows.

I would like to have all 3 1861 50 cent pieces, wouldn't you? And I definitely would like that Confederate one. I recently bought a confederate 50 cent restrike on ebay. It's probably a fake, but it was worth the gamble to me. I'll try to post a picture of it when I get it, if you're interested. I don't have real high hopes for it, but a guy can wish, can't he? Thanks biokemist6 for the links. I like reading about those old, rare confederate coins.

I agree that Clarke would be a worthy subject for a commemorative. However he'd be much more likely to appear on a British coin than a US coin. Or maybe the Isle of Man.

Hank Greenberg would make a good commemorative - like the Jackie Robinson, but a Jewish baseball hero. Has there ever been a commemorative celebrating the Jewish people in this country? I don't think so.
I like your idea, eaglefoot. everyone list 5 ideas for a commemorative and let's vote for the best.
MY five in no particular order just numbering:
1) Sequoyah invents the Cherokee alphabet
2) Hank Greenberg Jewish baseball hero of Detroit Tigers - approx. 1938-1947
3) Albert Einstein immigrates to USA - about 1933 - 75 years ago
4) Battle of New Orleans - 1814
5) Mark Twain or Edgar Allen Poe - great American writers

I like the Mountain Man idea, eaglefoot. I like studying the Sand Creek Massacre, and the role Bent Fort played in all that. Yes, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger and the rest you mentioned are important historical figures. They were very brave, and very skilled at language (communicating with the Native Americans). I don't think most Americans fully realize the part that Sand Creek played in the Civil War, really. I think the whole massacre was a plot to stir up the Cheyenne & Arapahos so the troops in Colorado could stay there to protect the recently discovered gold there, and not let it fall into the hands of the South. Otherwise the soldiers might have been called away to fight elsewhere, and the gold would have been left relatively unguarded. Just my thoughts, but Charlie Bent, half Indian/half white, had some of the same ideas. One of my conspiracy theories. "He was the son of John (?) Bent who the fort was named after. Jeremiah Johnson - now there was a great Western movie! I don't think there's been a Commem for the Pony Express either, or the great stage lines like Wells Fargo, or the completing of the railroad from coast to coast, or famous lawmen, like Bat Masterson, etc.

There are SOOOO MANY things pertaining to the "Old West" that are part of the shaping and identity to The United States......I wish they'd do more of that......The Lewis & Clark Commemorative thing was interesting, but I didn't get it, because I wasn't aware of the U.S. Mints website at the time.....and I don't want to pay "over issue" price now.........there needs to be a lot more of this stuff though.....you just can't get more "America" than the Old West !

I couldn't find your discussion about the Old West, but I want to. Can you direct me a little more? I'm a little new here and don't know my way around too well. But I know I would like to have a Peace Medal (an original one). I'm hoping I'll run into someone who has one and doesn't really want it anymore, or really needs the money, but I probably never will.