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Rest in Peace
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2009 is the pivotal year for me on ALL US coins. The Mint in its rush to mimic the RCM, et. al. joining the world stage of outright outrageousness of coin designs has dug the grave for me on contemporary coins. Pretty much all my sets end with proofs at 09, quarters stink, cent is laughable, the dollar series are worthless as a (fill in blank)! Even TJ and Jack have been messed with, pathetic!   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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LP17 & LP15 are my favorite of the ones you listed.
Not liking the current design nor LP16. The eagle on LP16 looks like a feathery sausage with angel wings at either side. Not a fan.
Edited by RoyCoinBoy
04/04/2018 7:26 pm
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United States
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I really don't like it. I don't like modern nickels either. Or the quarter series, really. LP17 looks cool though, I would've liked that one over the current shield.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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All I want for Christmas is high relief  Edited by ty88ty2
04/04/2018 8:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
5464 Posts |
Shield Cent  , LP-17  , the wings on LP-15 & LP-16 look all wrong to me. LP-15 looks more like one of Mark1959's ducks. Edited by USSID18
04/04/2018 11:36 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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To my eye, the old-timey look, seemingly meant to harken back to the days when a cent actually bought something, on a piece of junk minted as a worthless amount of currency, is like lipstick on a pig. There, I said it. They should just do a Marvel Agents of Shield series instead.
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 United States
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Quote: All I want for Christmas is high relief As long as they have to mint billions of cents every year we are never going to get it.  Now, if the cent were NIFC, we might be able to get high relief bronze cents for our uncirculated and proof sets.  |
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United States
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 My first 2018 penny found in circulation. I had a pic of the back, which is even worse, but couldn't get it under the 300kb size limit with my iPhone. Point being, isn't it great that we're producing such high quality currency? Probably several months old, and only half "rotten". ~MΩNSTER~ |
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United States
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Point being, isn't it great that we're producing such high quality currency? Probably several months old, and only half "rotten". A good solution is to stop releasing the cent for circulation. |
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United States
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While I like the Shield Cent Design I don't really appreciate the new Pennies because they have an inferior metallic composition. Overtime I have noticed the mainly Zinc composition coins have less luster staying than primarily copper content cents. Some of my prettiest pennies are 1959 D, 1961, 1964, and 1971 S's in EF condition or higher with that lovely copper shine. When thin copper plating ages is erodes away leaving very dark black cloudy residue revealing the metallic Zinc underneath. At least when a Copper coin ages it may get a slight patina but nearly through and through you'd get the copper shine even through accidental damages. My favorite USA Penny design in the Flying Eagle cents too bad they did not last long.. finding metal detecting is a goal of mine, if I found an Flying Eagle cent in F12+ I'd be darn stoked for sure. |
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Point being, isn't it great that we're producing such high quality currency? Probably several months old, and only half "rotten". Remind me again, how much is the mint charging us to make one? |
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United States
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They are not charging us anything. The US Mint is self funded and any remaining profit is given to Treasury for the general fund. That being said, cent production substantially reduces Mint profits since each cent cost more than one cent to make (and that does not even include purchase cost of the copper plated blanks from Jarden).  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Quote:They are not charging us anything. The US Mint is self funded and any remaining profit is given to Treasury for the general fund. That being said, cent production substantially reduces Mint profits since each cent cost more than one cent to make (and that does not even include purchase cost of the copper plated blanks from Jarden). So it's self funded from Mint products (Commemoratives, mint sets, proof sets, etc..) they sell? They produce all our currency from the profits of these products? I never know that. I thought the Mint was in the hole, just like the Post Office and the rest of the government! Thanks for the education. And you're at work now, on the computer doing this CCF chat stuff? Please don't tell me you work for the Gov't.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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So it's self funded from Mint products (Commemoratives, mint sets, proof sets, etc..) they sell? They produce all our currency from the profits of these products? They make money making other denominations as well. It's basically impossible for a major world mint to not make money. |
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United States
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One more hand raise for "I like it." The design mixes modern and classic characteristics, and it suffers less than some others from low relief. I particularly like the font used for the name of the country.
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