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Poll Question
I know we're all aware of this already. But the U.S. Mint annnounced today......this.... United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program Announced 56 National Sites to be Honored in New Multi-Year Initiative WASHINGTON - The United States Mint today announced the nation will honor 56 national sites to be honored through the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program. In 2010, the first year of the program, the agency will mint commemorative quarter-dollar coins honoring the Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Yosemite National Park in California, Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon.So.... with the new 10 year program of "new" Quarters starting soon....what are everyones thoughts ?
Edited by eaglefoot
09/09/2009 1:32 pm
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Canada
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So, you mean my Whitman Quarter folder has to just sit on the shelf for another 10 years?
Why didn't they do like we do and issue a regular coin every year as well?
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United States
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just leave it alone. Next we'll have 50 state universities. Then 50 state flags, then 50 state flowers, then 50 state cartoons.
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United States
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As long as they work in vending machines, it's OK by me.  |
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United States
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I voted for change the design and leave it alone, the designs of the State Quarters started out alright but then hit a wall, minting crappy sketches and scenes on quarters, I agree with wheezy, next they will make another series state Universities or some other bad idea, anything to make money. Trade quality for quantity, NVMD that went out the window years ago.  Next year they should dump the Washington quarter program and reinstate the Capped Bust quarter Design!  Mint 1,500,000 coins and set them ALL (minus a couple mint state coins for me) free into circulation, and watch the prices rise. Then we might see a feeding frenzy on ebay for a modern coin actually worth collecting. Talk about something exciting. |
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The US Mint just announced that the next program following this will involve a commemorative quarter for each of the 3,140+ counties (or county-equivalents) in the United States. One will be released each week in a ceremony that will be at each county, with special wrappers to allow cancellations to be made at local post offices. The "County Program" as it's being called will last about 60 years. At that point, the US Mint may have to add additional counties and may also include the territories, which could extend the program through the year 2100.
It is expected that some of these county quarters will be very low in mintage. Mintage will be proportional to the number of residents in that county.
Stay tuned....
Edited by mycrob
09/09/2009 2:56 pm
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 I hope you ARE kidding !! ....  Perhaps this was a futuristic daytime night-terror that you dreamt Mycrob ...  I hope that the Mint Director/politicians do NOT read CCF ! ....  ..... |
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I really do not care as long as they never return to the original design. I rather enjoy the fact that my 1932~1998 Washington quarter Collection is complete. The last thing I want is a 22 or 33 year gap in dates! Quote:
Next we'll have 50 state universities. I am okay with it, as long as the use Clemson and not that place in Columbia, SC.  |
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United States
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They're grinding that cash cow into hamburgers! The mint is turning out to be just like Hollywood. Rehashing old stuff just to make a buck and everybody is getting worn out on it and don't want anything to do with it.
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09/09/2009 3:49 pm
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United States
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Enough is enough! Redesign all of coinage and replace the faces that appear on paper currency and coins with someone or something else and leave it be. And do away with the Kennedy half altogether. What did this guy do to deserve being immortalized on a coin less than 2 years after his death and why continue to mint something that they do not intend to put into circulation? |
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United States
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I havent tried to collect all of the Statehood Quarters, I've only collected the ones I like. Thats what I will do for these quarters as well. |
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United States
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I voted redesign after the State Quarters and leave them alone. This would have made the State Quarter series something special. Now it will get lost in what will obviously become a never ending series of less and less interesting things. I guess they don;t want to give up the huge profit the mint is making on selling all these huge sets every year. It's going to get like stamps....Elvis and Daffy duck aren't far away. |
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United States
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The situation is beyond embarrassing. It was bad enough how uncreative most of the State Quarters ended up being--once we got out west, it was nothing but rocks and wildlife--but to go with a theme that almost GUARANTEES that each reverse is going to be a generic-looking rock, animal, or tree just kills any interest I may have had in a new multi-year quarter series. Combine the uninspired theme with the current mint's unrefined artistic tastes, and you have a surefire recipe for what will be by far the ugliest coins in American history. I will still purchase my yearly proof set, but unless these coins end up being of a low enough mintage that future appreciation in value is assured, I wouldn't even bother looking through my change for them, much less pore over quarter rolls year after year. It's going to be a sad, sad decade for numismatists. As I said in another thread, there is slight hope for the ugliness to be offset by the inclusion of a new president. I believe that it was recommended to the mint by an advisory board that Theodore Roosevelt replace George Washington on the obverse to commemorate his dedication to the establishment of national parks, but I doubt the mint will follow through on this recommendation. Much like with Thomas Jefferson, they'll just slap an ugly likeness of Washington's face at a new angle of perspective on the obverse. |
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I say enough already ...... I for one am not looking forward to another 10 years of bad design and hype over the quarters. The State Quarters was a stroke of marketing genius .... and I humbly admit well received by the public. But it's time to stop the mint-money-making-madness. That's my humble opinion.  David Take a look at my other hobby ... http://www.jk-dk.art |
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United States
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When other countries design new coins, there appears to be much thought that goes into the design. These quarters remind me of prizes that used to be in cereal boxes. They also have that much attraction to me. When ever I receive a State Quarter, I spend it or put it in a money jar to be cashed in. These coins are like toys. The Kookaburra and Kangaroo coins issued by Australia come out once a year. and then we get coloured and gilded and plated coins.  I know many collectors have different preferences, but I think my head is going to expolde! I will nt be collecting the quarters |
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