So, What Do You Think?

Given the direction this thread is taking, I think it's important that I clarify my position on this. The problem I have with the new designs is complete lack of imagination. I have very deep respect for our founding fathers. They have been honored on our circulating coinage for a very long time.

Since our current circulating coinage is not going to be changed (not in any significant way), I think the Presidential series should have been the Liberty series or the Classic series or something along those lines. Some creativity would have been nice and some precious metal content would have helped. I guess I think that people should consider that the coins don't have to have an actual person on them at all. I like the more symbolic images and the more detailed artwork from the classics.

Well, I haven't seen one yet so I can't really tell you how I feel about them I suppose.

I was looking forward to the release date too but it seems out here in the sticks the banks don't want to be bothered with them. I thought it was gonna be a relatively simple thing to find a local bank that was carrying them and grab a roll or two but I stopped in at several banks and called some more in other towns and had no luck at all. Since it looks like it's gonna be a hassle to get them, and I'll probably wind up paying more than face, my excitement level has plummeted to the point were I don't know that I want to fiddle around with them.

From what I've seen in piccies though it seems okay, personally I think it looks a bit odd without all the lettering, not particularly bad or anything, just like somethings missing.

quote:

---

The problem I have with the new designs is complete lack of imagination

---

It seems to me that they are using all of their imagination on the commemoratives per say. While they are not as nice as some other countries main coinage, I think the commem's we're seeing are pretty cool.

Bottom line is don't collect them if you don't like them. If you're buying as an investment for future sale or even to hand down to generations, look at it as just that, don't look at it as piece of art. There are probably other coins in most peoples stable that you really don't care for, but it completes a set of some sort.

Just my opinion of course.

I have been going to the banks in the city and have yet to find one that is carrying them. I guess I will wait a month and then go buy some stamps. Those machines always will carry them.

The Susan b.Anthony dollar failed as a coin for usage. the Mint tried the next thing an Indian lady with her baby, the Sacagawea. Hardly anyone could pronounce that let alone know who she was. Obviously not a president or was she? Although the color was changed so not to get confused with Quarters AGAIN no one wants them for circulation and I think the Mint knows that or they should by now.
Last Sunday there was a news program on in the morning an a large amount of it was about these new Presidential dollars. The announcer stated how everyone wants them, likes them and will be using them everywhere. They then showed a person using one in a New York parking meter. The announcer said the Mint told him they will be used in parking meters, laudromats, vending machines, car washes all over the country and the populace has been asking for them for a long time. These new dollars will be used everywhere.
Sounds like the publicity stunt they pulled with the Bicentennial quarters. I fell for that one back in the 70's. I saved hundreds of them. A freind of mine saved thousands of them. All in MS condition. Not long ago they all ended up in a bank as a deposit for a savings account where the money should have been a long time ago. The same will befall these new Dollars. They will not be worth more than a dollar for the next 1,000 years due to everyone hoarding so many new ones and no one using any for anything else.
I just can't wait until the kids all start Copper coating Washington quarters in chem classes and passing them off as the new dollar.

Be careful what you wish for
or your wish might be granted.

Australian Pre-Decimal coins had the picture of the reining Monarch on the obverse and the reverse changed a few times.

Now that the Mints are providing NCLT coins

they produce so many a year it is hard to catalog and purchasing every coin is a financial challenge.

While coin collecting is reported to have begun some time in the fourteenth century. American coins have only been around for just over two hundred years..

Although the mint in the USA sells at a profit. Every mint I have ever purchased a coin from (Poland, UK, Canada, Australia, etc.) also sells coins at a profit.

That being said I am sad the mint did not issue sliver proofs of these coins-
Now that would have been a collectible.

As for the GOLD first lady coins - the obverses are very unimaginative, and with the current trend in Gold,

I doubt we will see a large striking of these coins.

for Gold I will stick with the nuggets, the eagles and the Krugerrands, and the occasional Maple leaf.

I am unimpressed with the lack of artistry on these coins. It seems like it was a rush job to put these together. I would love to see a dollar coin circulate, but given the current circumstances with the bill, I don't see that in the foreseeable future. The elimination of the bill would save money, but the government isn't in the business of saving money.

Wait till they design dollar coin to fit the state designs either as per quarter or outline? Even if its only the reverse of one.