What's Your Opinion Nabout The Countries That Put The Same Pict On Almost Every Coin, Or Note?

I don't care for it one bit but can live with the countries that do have differing designs on the reverse or a rotating set of commemoratives. I think leaders, Presidents, Prime Ministers or whatever could be commemorated on either coins or currency but NOT both. Every country has a great number of things to offer (culture, history, and nature to name a few)and to share with the rest of the world and their coins and notes are like little billboards that should be used to promote those topics. It all boils down to who is in charge and politics I guess?

I too love having the Queen on UK coinage. Firstly because I don't like alot of changes all the time (i hate change for the sake of it), I feel happiest when a design has a life of between 10 and 20 years on average. Too much change stinks of 'the mint cashing in', too little and it gets boring. I yet again I'm going for medium.

Secondly what I really like about the idea of monarchs on coins is that it really dates the whole thing. Sure in the US a Merc dime dates it to a certain period (or at least a certain period when they were in production). Sure they circulate for many years after their demise. But when you've got a coin of a late monarch doing the rounds it reminds you how how much not only the design has changed, but how much the politics and the country has changed and is still changing.

I used to love finding George VI coins as a kid, bearing in mind he'd been dead for near on 40 years at the time.
The impact isn't the same for me when it's just a different design. Today's obverse is totally different to the younger head obverses of Liz II but it's still the same period.

I suppose in summary;

This is the Mercury dime period, this is the Roosie silver period, this is the Roosie clad period.

Now imagine; This is the Victorian period, this is Edwardian and those are Georgian. Those kind of terms have connotations connected with them that sums up the whole period; politically, socially, popularly, etc. to a much wider general audience that know naff all about coins nor particularly care.

I think the same one gets old. I like what they're doing with the Jefferson nickle, however, if they start changing it too frequently it'll be worse. I would like to see Lady Liberty again. The way the
Lady evolved from the first years of the mint to the Mercury dime is interesting. To bad we don't see her anymore.