Presidential Dollars Concluding Next Year (2016) Yippie!!

As been said billions of times, these coins will NEVER work until the dollar notes are removed. Even if the dollar notes are removed, newly minted dollar coins would never see the light of day because of the hoards of the current dollars sitting in government vaults.

I haven't heard any news about the future of the dollar coins, but I wouldn't mind a 'break' in the annual varieties.

The dollar coins have been unpopular (in the broad sense; not numismatic) for well over 200 years. Cancelling all varieties for several years wouldn't hurt. Likewise, bringing the SAC dollars back if and when a change is made in the cloth bills would be 'ok' with me too.

My guess is that once the presidential set is finished, the SAC dollars will continue with their yearly reverse changes; at least as long as they can find pertinent topics for mintage. Also, it wouldn't surprise me if new 'Prez' dollars are created in the next ten years if any of our former presidents pass away.

Hopefully they pick one design to stick with and discontinue the dollar bill so we start suing them in circulation.

They should discontinue the $1 Note, $2 Note, 1 Cent and 5 Cent coins and issue Bi-metallic $1 and $2 coins!

When the topic of why the 2014 Limited Edition silver proof set was not on the product schedule last fall a few people said that the mint is not going to discontinue a product that sells.

Well it came back early this year.

So now I wonder if all of the different packaging of the same coins for the President dollars actually makes them money or costs them money. If it makes them money I would think they would want a new product to fill the void.

If they drop the extra 4 dollar coins from the proof sets and mint sets that means they would theoretically have to drop the price since there is now less face value in the sets proportionally dropping their profit margin.

I agree wholeheartedly - at least the designs for this series wouldn't just consist of a series of old white guys depicted at different angles. It's difficult to think of a subject wortheir and more American.

As for the edge lettering, I just wish that they would make it better. I only have a few Prez dollars and about half of them have really crappy and indistinct lettering. I don't think the edge lettering should be removed, though, because it's one of the best protections against counterfeits - as it stands, it's an order of magnitude easier to photocopy a dollar bill than it is to make some fake golden dollars. I'm continually amazed by the total lack of modern security features on the American dollar bill - no watermark, no security thread, no hologram, no anti-copying pattern, no colour-changing ink, not even any colours!! The stupid thing is still monochrome!! Maybe a massive counterfeiting operation will get the Fed to finally pull the dollar bill.

Maybe it's just me, but I liked the original eagle reverse a LOT on the Sacagawea dollars and wish the native American series would end and just go back to the eagle.