Ideas About Future Commemoratives?

Joe Louis Barrow
Muhammad Ali
Eli Whitney (cotton gin inventor and other things)
Jack Johnson
Medger Evers (murdered Civil Rights leader)
Edward Rose (1st Black fur trader up the Missouri river)
James Beckwourth (famous mountain man....very facinating story!)
George Bush (name sound familiar?) (1844 travelled Oregon Trail with a party to Oregon and settled in an area that brought others and this action affected the "Exclusion Law" against African Americans.
Elijah Abel
Could go on and on and on and on and on right ?........

They could do one for every major battle in the civil war. I mean they already started with Antietam and Gettysburg in the early part of the century and the civil war comm ems in the late 1990's. The mint is truely out of control.I dont understand them.

I said this in an earlier post, it bears repeating. Just because the US Mint makes it does not mean you have to collect it!

No Coke! Pepsi!

Heh. RC or Dr Pepper, please. And let's go with Captain Marvel ... anyone remember him?

I'm kidding. And if the U. S. Mint is out of control, the USPS flat crazy. Some of their commemoratives make absolutely no sense, and some of their regular issues (like the 60¢ stamp) were plain ugly.

You do not understand the Mint because you do not understand the process of creating a commemorative coin or a new coin program. The US Mint really has very little input in the matter. Congress has to pass legislation for a commemorative or coin program to be created- the Mint cannot create coinage without Congressional authorization. Then, once the concept is approved, it has to pass through the CFA and CCAC and they recommend a design selection to the Secretary of Treasury.

I continually see people here complain that the Mint is producing all of these different coins but none realize that their anger/frustration is completely misdirected and that the Mint has no control over it Please learn the process before you criticize...

That then explains too why THIS Congress has the LOWEST APPROVAL RATING IN HISTORY !....
Bush's numbers are freakishly low.....BUT CONGRESS'S NUMBERS ARE LOWER THAN HIS !..
So, these people in Congress are being so ridiculous with our money and their ideas are stupid and lame, they can fix nothing or settle nothing or agree in a bipartisan way on nothing......
MAKES SENSE TO ME THAT THIS CARRIES OVER TO OUR COINS !......
Thanks for bringing this point to light Bio.....
People do, way too often, including me, refer to and critique "The Mint" even if we know better and we should stop doing that........
IT'S CONGRESS'S FAULT ENTIRELY !

The modern commemorative program is essentially a fund raising vehicle- a portion of all sales is designated for a specific purpose. For instance, the recent Bald Eagle commems benefited an eagle conservation program.

Surcharges from the program are authorized to be paid to the American Eagle Foundation of Tennessee for the purposes of continuing its work to save and protect Bald Eagles nationally.

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs...mmemoratives
"Since the modern commemorative coin program began in 1982, the United States Mint has raised over $418,000,000 in surcharges to help build new museums, maintain national monuments like the Vietnam War Memorial, preserve historical sites like George Washington's home, support various Olympic programs, and much more."