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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I disagree 100% with The Force. Take the exact opposite of his opinion and there ya go.
As for the shield. They picked that junk over that eagle design? More junk from a commission rooted in impressionistic modern art junk. But thats just my opinion.
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I am curious about our Canadian friends thoughts on the discontinuation of the cent in Canada. Do you wish these cents were still around if even in sets only? How are you adapting w/o the cent? Was the transition easy?
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03/11/2015 11:07 pm
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United States
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I like the shield, it is fresh, new but some what disappointing. Honestly, it is a simple, booooooring design with no detail. Maybe some cool varieties might show up some day. Maybe... Some day..... Huuuh. Dumb shield cent. I have very mixed emotions about it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The shield design bores me. I wish we would get a better design for it (I liked the eagle) and also go ahead and replace the dead presidents on our coins with better images as well! One can hope.
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But they don't need to. This is the issue. Spend a few billion of your seigniorage to properly advocate people turning in their hoards of coins stored in jars at home. Get in touch with the USPS and give complementary coin wrappers to everyone. Also try to keep the probably half billion cents each year from being just THROWN AWAY with their weekly garbage pickup. Just a pipe-dream. Will never happen. We are already wasting seigniorage minting cents. The solution is to quit minting them for circulation and get used to life without them. |
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United States
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It's a zincoln. It doesn't deserve a good design.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Against the grain...... I like it! Makes way more sense than wheat ears or the boring Memorial.....jmo.....
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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With those I lost interest in collecting Cents.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Problem is that people want them. As long as there is a market for them, the mint is going to make them; it would be foolish to walk away from that profit. Of course then they could realize they could make a lot MORE profit by introducing a bunch more non-circulation denomiations because the collectors will buy them just because they are collectors (Bring back the 1/2 cent, the 2 and 3 cent the 20 cents and how about a 15, a 30, a 75 etc. Even more money for a $2, $3, $5 $10 and $20.) Quote:
But they don't need to. This is the issue. Spend a few billion of your seigniorage to properly advocate people turning in their hoards of coins stored in jars at home. Get in touch with the USPS and give complementary coin wrappers to everyone. Problem is it won't work. They tried that back during the second world war to solve the copper shortage problem for the cent but even with the great patriotic fervor of the time they couldn't get people to turn in their cents to help with the war effort. |
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United States
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Conder101, that is news to me!
When I was a kid I discovered odd bits of metal in the cellar. Old toothpaste tubes and the like.
Support the metal drive!
My dad's old WWII habit.
But to turn in cents?
Unlike today, a cent would buy a daily newspaper.
Even a lowly copper cent could purchase something.
Could the mint produce enough steel cents to prevent
a problem with daily commerce?
Maybe that's why such a program failed then.
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03/12/2015 2:22 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like the shield design. Anything's better than that terrible memorial reverse.
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United States
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The Shield reverse does absolutely nothing for me, but neither did the Lincoln Memorial design. But the Shield is worse. IMHO. Best Regards,  George |
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United States
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Of course then they could realize they could make a lot MORE profit by introducing a bunch more non-circulation denomiations because the collectors will buy them just because they are collectors (Bring back the 1/2 cent, the 2 and 3 cent the 20 cents and how about a 15, a 30, a 75 etc. Even more money for a $2, $3, $5 $10 and $20.) Hear that, Mint Director? Do it!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I am curious about our Canadian friends thoughts on the discontinuation of the cent in Canada. Well.. we didn't have too much to say, the Government decided to take away the small cent and it's gone.  Quote:
Was the transition easy? Well.. when you have nothing to say...yeah.. I guess that's easy.  The Government took away the cent and the $1 & $2 dollar bills.. when they are gone fron circulation there's not too much you can do, you have to use what is available.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I remember picking out the Union Shield design as my choice when the designs were still under review. I like it. Like the symbolic imagery. It can go NIFC; there's only a few hundred billion of them out there. Keep it in the annual collector sets and every five years do a standard run of 8 billion or so with a new reverse.
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