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Pillar of the Community
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For whatever reason I started out with BU dimes when I began collecting. Probably because they are affordable and can be found for a slight premium over melt. Can't wait for them to change the design to spark interest in the series. I don't think they will ever be super valuable but have a decent upside IMO.
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Pillar of the Community
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I hate this lifeless, lack of character look to the modern coins the mint is producing and yet I still collect them.  I think what we need is some "relief". |
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As long as the mint has to make billions of pennies every year there is very little chance of getting more relief. The presses simply have to run so fast that there isn't time to strike up higher relief. Cut production 50% by getting rid of the useless and wasteful pennies and something can be done about relief.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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with this post 100%. |
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Pillar of the Community
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If they got rid of the Penny then they might have time available to raise the relief on coins that are actually useful, like the dime.
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Pillar of the Community
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It's not a matter of the mint employees not having enough time. I think what cladking means is that it takes longer for a high-relief die to bring out all the design details.
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Time is the issue. Higher relief requires slowing down the presses. Slower presses means less coins per day. However, if they take the presses allocated to the worthless cent then the throughput of other denominations could be maintained, even at the slower rate.
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Time is the issue. Higher relief requires slowing down the presses. Slower presses means less coins per day. However, if they take the presses allocated to the worthless cent then the throughput of other denominations could be maintained, even at the slower rate. And there ya go! |
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I really meant that if they eliminated the penny they would have more resources to devote to useful coinage, with less time, energy and other resources devoted to a worthless coin (the penny) they could slow down the machinery for the other coins and increase the relief.
I doubt they would actually do that even if the penny was eliminated but it would be nice to see better relief on our coinage.
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I doubt they would actually do that even if the penny was eliminated That is exactly what would happen. They would just shut down the extra machines and lay off the employees who worked the cent lines. |
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Let's hope them Penny's keep on Rollin then, Rollin Rollin Rollin on the river.
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That is exactly what would happen.
They would just shut down the extra machines and lay off the employees who worked the cent lines. There would be some layoffs because they waste counless million of dollars and manhours making pennies each year. The mint couldn't absorb all that excess labor. However, without the penny in circulation they'd have to make more dollar coins foir an economy that worked just a little bit better. This would use up some of the "extra capacity" as well but lots of manpower. Then they'd still have excess capacity. If their customers were screaming (and writing their senators) for better designs and better relief then they certainly would use the extra presses to raise the designs and to cut back on layoffs further. This simply is assuming people demand higher relief. At this point it's impossible to provide relief without huge outlays that would cause shock even to a US politician. It would probably require two new mints and beefing up existing fascilities; it's just not going to happen to please a few coin collectors or even the millions of quarter collectors If they revamped the coinage system there would be gains all around including areas like relief that people don't think about. And this is about the only way that we could get higher relief. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Let's hope them Penny's keep on Rollin then, Rollin Rollin Rollin on the river. Negative, Brushy Bandit. We need to end the subsidy now. Interesting analysis and some excellent points made, cladking.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree with CladKing. There would be some increase needed for other coins but not so much to absorb the penny people. If they got real smart and eliminated the $1 and $2 bills as well then a few less layoffs at the Mint and a few more at the BEP would occur.
Either way there is little chance that the relief would be increased on remaining coinage. The public at large could care less and likely would not notice one way or another.
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Pillar of the Community
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When the mint sets were eliminated in 1982 I figured they'd go without a peep but the public was writing letters and complaining. I actually saw people come into coin shops asking about mint sets and be disappointed when told there were none.
I'm sure there's not going to be a mass outcry for greater relief but the mint does respond to demand when they can. I believe it might actually happen if the currency system were rationalized. Using paper to purchase candy bars and the production of coins with negative value is madness.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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