San Francisco Mints Last Year Of Presidential $1 Coins

What is the next reverse proof coin?

It does look better from a distance jbuck.

They did not really change the rules. The text of the legislation is ambiguous enough to be interpreted to either allow or disallow a Reagan dollar. The mint opted to interpret it the way that allowed for it, which is what you do when in the business to generate revenue.

That being said, what is done is now done. The mint cannot unilaterally create a Carter dollar without proper authorization from Congress.

I liked the article. I also think I would enjoy working at the Mint. If they ever open a branch here in Detroit, I'll make sure I update my resume and apply!

Great article, thanks for that.

I'm with GR58, I am glad the series is over. But I am in the group that has not cared for it at all. With that said, I collect all the modern series, so I collect it.

So I am curious what most people will consider "complete" with this series? And that can actually work as a larger question for all series.

Assuming you collect the proof along with the business strike-- will you consider your collection complete without the reverse proofs, or will you want that to consider it complete?

Also-- if you do consider them, how would you collect them? Would you put them in extra holes in a Dansco or would you leave them in their OGP?

For me, I am thinking I will need the reverse proofs for me to feel it is complete and I will likely use a CAPS album now and take them out of the OGP.

But on a broader scale-- the implication is that if I need the reverse proofs to "complete" my Presidential dollar, then I will no longer feel my Roosevelt dimes are complete because of the March of Dimes set, I will no longer feel my Kennedy set is complete because of the recent varieties (not to mention 98 matte), will no longer feel the SAC is complete without the 14 and 15 enhanced... and now might not even feel my nickel set is complete without the additional mattes (though I am mostly talking about proof coins in this long winded post).

Stepping outside the Dansco limitations, strictly regarding proof varieties, what do you consider required to call your collection complete?
The standard clad proof, both the standard clad and silver proof or all the proof varieties?

I did create this question as a thread of its own in the modern series forum.

True, but until 2014 ended and Carter hadn't died meaning Reagan would have been left out, they had interpreted it the other way. Until January or February of 2015 the Mint website showed the series ending with Ford. Then all of a sudden they changed the interpretation to allow Reagan.

Up until late 2014, it was still theoretically possible for Carter to be featured (Bush, too, if he happened to die as well), and for the series to end up with an unbroken run of presidents. Thus the list ended with Ford, because for all they knew they would've needed to include Carter.
The original legislation, as far as I know, specifically allowed to include any future eligible presidents, even if elected after the start of the program. (That being 2007, McCain, in particular, was a definite possibility.) It didn't say anything about gaps in the run, however (perhaps whoever wrote it expected Carter to be dead by 2014).

Somewhat ironically, Nancy Reagan is still alive, even though a coin featuring her is already planned (the First Spouse gold). As far as I know, though, the legislation directly tied the eligibility of the spouse for a coin to that of the respective president, so Nancy Reagan is eligible regardless of whether she is still alive or not when her coin comes out (in 2016).
(Incidentally, the legislation also didn't mention anything about said spouse's gender, other than to use a gender-neutral term. One wonders whether, if Hillary Clinton had been elected in 2008 and proceeded to die before 2014, there would've been a Bill Clinton coin in the First Spouse series! )

The law specified that the president had to have been dead for at least two years. It also specified that the presidents had to released in the order in which they served. This causes the problem in that Carter could not be shown because he had not died, but if they depicted Reagan then the Presidents would not be released in the order in which they served (Because they would be skipping one.) As Jbuck said they bowed to the money and to the popularity of Reagan.

While the legislation required that the President had to have been dead for two years it placed no such restriction on the First Spouse. If Carter had died by the end of 2014 both Rosalyn Carter and Nancy Reagan would have been eligible to have the image of a living First Spouse on a coin. If Hillary had been elected in 2008 and died by 2014 then yes Bill would have been eligible IF They decided to skip over G W H Bush, Bill Clinton, and G W Bush to do a Hillary President dollar.