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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Just wondering if anyone has been around along enough to remember what the general public reaction was when the new reverse was unveiled in 1959.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A lot of people called it the new "trolley car" penny.
I had been collecting a couple years when it came out.
Nobody liked it very much.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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 United States
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I had not heard that it was called the "trolley car" penny, but now that you mention it. It does look like a trolley car.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was in the 3rd grade when they went to the Memorial reverse. They were hard to get and were hoarded at first, just like today when new coins come out. People don't change their habits.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was so used to the memorial reverse that when they switched to the shield, I hated it because I wanted the old reverse back
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Pillar of the Community
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I was so used to the memorial reverse that when they switched to the shield, I hated it because I wanted the old reverse back Don't it always seem to go... People hate the new stuff and eventually they end up paving paradise to accommodate all the visitors. I guess I preferred the new design in 1959 to the wheat ears but I didn't especially like it. Over the years I have grown to like it a little more. Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's very ironic that no one would have ever imagined in 1959 that we'd end up paving all our parking lots with memorial reverse pennies because they'd become so worthless they weren't worth the effort of picking up.
One thing is certain; everything changes and time flies.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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United States
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I do remember when they came out and the stink about the 'oF'. I guess it was a goof, but the mint decided to keep on trucking, making it a 'new' standard.
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Pillar of the Community
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That was 5 years before I was hatched, so I can only read articles. Or comments by the old dudes. ;-)
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A lot of people called it the new "trolley car" penny. My mom called them that!  Not that she thought that was what the image was (at least not at the time she told me), but that was what people commonly called them back then. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I do remember when they came out and the stink about the 'oF'. I guess it was a goof, but the mint decided to keep on trucking, making it a 'new' standard. The interesting thing is it wasn't "new", The Franklin half had the same small o capital F since 1948. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm old enough to remember going from Wheat Cents to those newer types with a building on the reverse. I thought at the time this just has to stop. The old ones were what they should have kept. Then I got used to them and said to myself, couldn't get worse so accept them. Then this dumb, silly, shield thing popped. Just hate to even start collecting those. So many US coins are really not to great in design but this shield thing is really off. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I agree Carl, out of the proposed designs the shield was near the bottom in my eyes. The eagle design was very nice, I wish they would have went with that.
Just my personal opinion, but the committee that decided on the final design probably saw the eagle as "too aggressive", hinting to an aggressive USA, whereas a shield is "defensive".....liberalism gone awry.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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BadThad, I agree that the eagle in flight was the best, I did not like many of them, especially any of them when they had the "1c" on them. Spell out CENT! It's not that hard!
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.....liberalism gone awry. or perhaps the fact that a Union Shield better relates to Lincoln? |
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