New Liberty Coinage?

You know, if they replaced all presidents with Liberty, no one could say they're playing favorites, although many are right in that GW should remain until ATB ends. Actual people should only appear on commems, period.

I think circulating two types in a denomination in a single year (one with prez and one with Liberty) is a bad idea, and a total cop out. Too many circulation issues as it is, and now they want to add more?

I'm not really sure if I'm for this bill or not when I think about it.

I feel slighted that our Government is attempting to take advantage of us coin collectors by intentionally issuing additional designs that they know people will hoard in order to make money. I suppose that the "debt reduction" part of this plan is just to make it sound more appealing..

It just kinda feels like they are going in the direction of the USPS.. countless numbers of different issues per year to make money. But I guess this program will only be two more issues a year so it's not too bad.

I would be okay with this, however, I would prefer to see GW until completion. They can change the obverse for Round 2.

Low relief extends die life and allows for increased speed, both are necessary for the higher mintage numbers of modern coins.

Oh, how I agree.

Hey,

If they are even so much as "bothering" to "talk" about redesigning the half, do you think that the government may try to push the half back into circulation? I sort of think there is some hope for halves now, if there is talks of a new design coming out, just as I have high hopes for the redesigned $2 bill, coming out in the Meaningful Access redesign, starting in the early 2020s. Do you suppose that the $1 bill will be phased out as well, and maybe the penny since the penny and nickel are not included in this redesign, so that there will be space in cash registers for both halves and dollar coins in the coin slots, and a slot in the bill section for $2 bills? Do you think vendors and self checkout companies will upgrade for circulating halves and $2 bills when the self checkout companies inevitably will have to retool their machines to give dollar coins (and possibly $2 bills) as change?

I think it will be easy for the self checkouts to be reprogrammed to dispense $2 bills in change in the place of the $1 bills, but making the machines dispense halves and dollar coins could be a bit more tricky and costly. But at least, for the dollar coin, it has to be done, so, why not do it for the half as well, and rake in a little more profit?