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Originally posted by crystalk64
ABSOLUTELY NOT====UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!! Fed up with politicians and after seeing what the rest of the world offers I am amazed the United States Congress refuses to get on board. Just wait until next year and see what the mint sets and proof sets will cost all of us!
ABSOLUTELY agree!This series will fail. They will mint a bunch during the first year and then they will only make it available to "collectors" as they have done with the SAC series. Matter of fact, any dollar coin WILL fail as long as the feds spend $500 million per year producing the paper dollar whose life lasts around 16 months in circulation. Topple this with political correct nonsense such as when the C.C.A.C. deemed a depiction of liberty "too political", all I can say is that Teddy Roosevelt is probably spinning in his grave at where US designs have taken us! Yeah, right...like I am going to look forward to the Fillmore or Harrison dollar, what a joke! Our coins will look like a 3rd world banana republic country who HAVE to put the current leader on their coins to remind the populous what general is in charge...for now. Edited by zakgold
05/13/2006 08:21 am
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NO! NO! NO! NO! I don't believe in presidents or democracy. I say we do away with the whole facade and make the aristocrats that have been running the show all along, (masked from view by their stooges in D.C.,) show their faces. Give all politicans the boot and make what has always been since organized society began, "official." The aristocrats are in charge. When people get tired of aristocrats they don't bother with appeasement and "busy work" of voting. They take 'em to the Tower Barber Shop for a really bad haircut.  Then things change for real. "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." H.L Mencken Iconoclast extronaire Edited by longnine009
05/13/2006 08:57 am
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Longnine you are absolutely right about WHO is really running the show! I could go on and on here but this is a COIN discussion so I will drop it at that!
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Originally posted by crystalk64
Longnine you are absolutely right about WHO is really running the show! I could go on and on here but this is a COIN discussion so I will drop it at that!
Just maybe that the 'Wonderful Wizard of Oz' will be on one of the dollar coins! (Right after Dorthy's coin) |
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Wait a minute Old Dan...didn't they put the Wicked Witch of the East on US dollars starting in 1979? Only a mother could love a mug like this:  Just another example of our mint officials being pressured by the PC crowd to mint coins that most numismatics run away from. When was the last time a depiction of Liberty graced our circulated coins? the Merc dime? Now we are faced with a "banana republic 3rd world" dollar coin with their wives gracing a $10 gold coin...UNBELIEVABLE! Edited by zakgold
05/14/2006 08:30 am
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I hope these aren't included in the mint sets because I don't want to pay for those.
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Maybe a Reagan dollar but I don't know about the rest.
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No, I don't plan on buying any of the new Presidential dollars. Just like the State Quarters, there will be plenty of them to pluck out of circulation. I've talked to a few non-collectors who got somewhat interested in coins by assembling a set of State Quarters from pocket change findings. Their reaction to the Presidential coin series was one of enthusiasm. Granted, this is very limited evidence, but from what I've seen, I think we can look for more acceptance of these dollar coins than the Sacagawea or SBA (not saying much there, that's for sure). |
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I am working on a type set, so I will be collecting a set (or 3, depending on how many mints produce the coin). I actually think that these may be worth something in the future as the classic commems have become. Year one will be overproduced, but after that I expect mintages to drop and collectability to increase.
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I don't think it's going to matter who or what is on a dollar coin; the public doesn't want them. I use to make fun of the SBA relentlessly because of the flowing hair design that was Gasparro's original idea for that coin. Although it wasn't really an original idea. I believe it was from one his ANA medals. But what did Susie do wrong? It took me 20 years of fuming over the SBA debacle before I asked myself that question. It's not her fault Carter wanted to be PC. Besides, she's really a 10 compared to Carry Nation.  *********************************************** "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." H.L Mencken *********************************************** |
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I will collect the circulating ones, plus I always buy a proof set every year so I will have those as well. I wonder if these will be the same size of the SBA ? |
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