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Pillar of the Community
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Poll Question
I have been seeing discussion about this from time to time. Do you like or hate the words etched into the edges of the dollar coin? I know many people hated In God We Trust being put there, calling them ¨Godless Dollars¨ and they threw such a fit that they had to change the position on the motto for the third year and beyond of the President and Native American dollar Coin Programs, but still left everything else there, like the date and that other motto that I don't know how to spell. I for one, hate the edge lettering, and thought it was a bad idea from the start, although I would agree with them just etching solid stars around the whole coin (Maybe try to get 50 stars around the edge of the coin to represent each state, if room permitted it. So, do you support the edge lettering on the $1 coins, are you neutral about it, or do you oppose it?
Edited by Fox
03/24/2015 5:01 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I voted for "I oppose the edge lettering. I rather see it on the front of the coin". But I'd rather the edges be reeded rather than smooth.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm okay with and actually enjoy any kind of edge-lettering or design so long as it does not include date and mint.
And if you must put the date and mint on the edges, PLEASE include them on the obverse/reverse as well.
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 United States
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You have way too many choices and some are not mutually exclusive. You should have stuck with the three in the title.
Anyway...
"I oppose the edge lettering. I rather see it on the front of the coin." is most accurate when referring to date and mint specifically. I have no problem with everything else on the edge.
Also, saying that I support having stars etched all the way around, perhaps 50 stars representing each state and that I support any etching on the $1 coins to help the blind and visually impaired denominate the coin would not be untruthful.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
613 Posts |
I thought it was interesting at first, but now I hate it. These will be dateless coins in 10 years if pulled out of circulation, even if they aren't circulating much at all. Edge lettering would be cool for "security features" like stars or something, but not for features that traditionally belong on the coin's surface
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Russian Federation
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Quote:
I'm okay with and actually enjoy any kind of edge-lettering or design so long as it does not include date and mint.
And if you must put the date and mint on the edges, PLEASE include them on the obverse/reverse as well.  This basically. Edited by january1may
03/24/2015 7:37 pm
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Australia
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I voted "other". I have no problem with putting the mottos on the edge of the coin and IMHO both mottos (or all 3 mottos if you include "Liberty") should have been kept there. But I do have a problem with putting the date and mintmark there.
Regarding the edge etchings, do they really help visually impaired people discern the denomination? It seems to me that a raised edge pattern (like on the old gold coins) would be more helpful than an incuse one. More expensive to apply, of course, since it would require an engraved collar die... which is of course why they didn't do that in the first place.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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with jbuck. Too many choices. Mine is a combination of "other" and "oppose, would rather see on front". Put whatever you want on the edge (stars, reeds, secret codes, mottos, love notes, etc.) but not the MM and date. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I voted no comment. Reason is they only put them on those baby sized dollar coins and I dislike them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12812 Posts |
Ah! Edge-incusing is also seen on the 5-oz ATB pucks, my dear carl. And it's MUCH more readable on those guys, I might add. Also, the date and MM are NOT on the edge. Hmmm someone got it right on those. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I voted other.
I've noticed that I'm like a number of others here; leave the date and mintmark on the obverse or reverse.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7840 Posts |
Other: I like the edge lettered coins that have the edge lettering missing, error/variety style.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1003 Posts |
I support it, but the date and mintmark should be on either obverse or reverse.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1795 Posts |
I voted other because I would have voted for something new and unique and also I would have voted for helping the blind but I never heard of that one but I suppose they could feel it (heightened senses).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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More or less in agreement with Sap.
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United States
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Well, it's not new and unique because we were doing it more than 200 years ago with our coins. It was originally the only way to see a denomination, for instance.
And it's not numismatically interesting because it's being struck onto boring unwanted coins which will easily break all records of survivability because nobody uses them. These will never have collector value unless there's a Pittman Act-level meltdown in the future.
My vote is a resounding "meh".
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