My Dollar Coin Rant......yep, Another Rant! Lol

I agree with these statements 100%!

I have said this before, but if these had been made into silver dollars for collectors only I would probably be collecting them today.

The only reason I collect them is because they're part of the UNC and proof sets. I just can't bring myself to just spend them....

I'll use them but I'm not gonna collect them! :P

I think they're okay for education. I do wish they were a bit more traditional with date and mintmark placement. Or, at the very least, make sure the edge lettering is easy to read like it is on the British 2 pound coins. The dollars barely circulate and a lot of them already have nearly unreadable edge lettering.

As far as the subject matter... Presidents are okay, but you get the feeling like they are getting more honor than deserved/intended by the Founding Fathers. What else do we have to be proud of as a nation besides Presidents?

A nice eagle representation on the reverse would be nice. None of our current circulating coins have Eagles on them anymore, and it was mandated by law at one point. I mean... look at Canada's coins and you know what their national symbols are, and the designs haven't changed really in almost 80 years. (The maple leaf was really unfortunate.)

There just isn't room for them in our current coin "roster". Pennies, nickels, quarters have recently gone/are going through design changes. The dime is too small. The half... is the half. So dollars. The Presidents were likely just an excuse to get the dollar coins "going" again. Call a series of presidential portraits educational and that was probably the best bet at getting the bill passed. It was also an attempt at making them more collectible to the general public, just like the Statehood Quarters. A definitive series which can easily be completed by the public, garnering interest in the coin (and seigniorage for the Mint). A nice design, even a series of nice rotating designs, probably wouldn't have the same effect.

Now the Native American dollars, though not a set with a definite end like the Presidents, are generally very nice designs honoring a very deserving group of people. It's a shame these don't circulate.

Agreed. Edge date and MM are silly and difficult to deal with.

By that logic the proof and mint sets should be done away with entirely and all the coins just sold separately because there will always be coins in the set that people don't want to collect and shouldn't be forced to buy.



Possibly a little easier to do the lettering on the pounds because they are thicker. They probably also impress the lettering into the heavier because on the pounds they are lettered first and then struck. The lettering isn't being impressed into a work hardened coin, ad probably impressed deeper to insure it will still be readable after being forced into the reeded collar.



Believe it or not it is STILL mandated by law that the eagle appear on all the coin denominations greater than the dime. but that law can be superceded by other legislation that specifically exempts a series from the requirement, And the legislation for the State Quarter, ATB Quarters, NA, and President dollars all contain a clause exempting them from the eagle requirement.



The use of the $ is not mandated on the NA dollar and the designer whose design was chosen for the 2013 coin chose not to use it.



I don't know if they have a definite end or not. I'm not sure what happens to them after the Presidents end in 2016. The legislation reads that after the President dollar series ends all of the small sized dollare will revert to the Sacagawea design. now since Sacagawea appears on the NA dollars does that mean the NA dollars well continue, or does it mean that the NA dollars will end and all the small dollars will be the same as the 2001 - 2008 Sacagawea design? When the NA dollars were authorized they did not change the language in the law from Sacagawea to Native American.

One thing I have always wondered was, what was the reason for the law that stated "All coins above the dime in value, must feature an eagle on the reverse"? And also, why didn't the cent, nickel and dime have to feature eagle designs on their reverses? (I'm not a big fan of eagles, but I'll bet a copper colored eagle design on the back of the cent could have been neat)