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Hey! This past weekend a cousin of mine gave me a bag of about 20 common date wheaties, 5 prez dollars, and a sac. It turns out that he pulled the prez dollars from a mint roll, so they were all uncirculated. I know that this contradicts my beliefs, [see my post signature] but I actually like the obverse of this particular one. This is I I don't like the Presidential dollars in general:  ugly color corrode easily terrible reverse  date and mintmark on edge of the coin, making it look like a token But the obverse designs are actually pretty. But just the obverse!   |
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I agree, the reverse is really nice, the obverse portraits are just okay.
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The entire Prez series is a sham, with your pocketbook as the main target.  |
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I agree, the reverse is really nice, the obverse portraits are just okay. I actually said that I don't like the reverse...  |
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Personally I only like 2 pres dollars. The RP truman & ikes. Soon though, I'm sure I will love Regan in all forms
Does anyone else think coinfrogs avatar above ospreys looks hilarious or is it just me it's like he's saying "haha ypu can't find me, I'm on your head"
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10/07/2015 9:39 pm
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I actually said that I don't like the reverse... oops, guess I didn't actually read the post  |
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The entire Prez series is a sham, with your pocketbook as the main target  ,These coins are like every other dollar coin , they will not circulate for their main reason of replacing the $1 bill. the only modern day $1 coin that was somewhat widely used was the Ike dollar.  |
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I like the harry S Truman dollars and the Ike dollars (pres) The JFK dollar was a disappointment... Now if they made ALL of the presidents whom died in office looking down like that on the coins, that would be cool. |
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I hate all dollar coins unless they are Ike or silver
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I just collect a set cause, well life span set is what I am making and keep anything else that comes along. I agree with what the history teacher person said in another thread, the imagery of the presidents looks nothing like you would see and half aren't very recognizable who they are without the wording squished under them. If that may something simple, not SAC/NA or Pre$ after they are done and make it a coin not a car-wash token rimmed whatever, then they will ahve a chance to actually get rid of the $1 bill. 1 coin, 1 design, MANY years; there is a reason the coins have that thing about 25 years that has been lost recently Many congress should learn it again and stop trying to regain nostalgia from their chilhoods with a replacement for baseball cards and thinking everyone wants the new Daryl Strawberry or Sammy Sousa dollar coin or tries to find the rare Mickey Mantle coin, and sayy, "we jsut ned money that will last and work, not some collectible gimmick". I agree with Fuzzy, and did read the first post, the reverse is the best modern coin design I have seen in a LONG time. Liberty looks like she should. Not some art period rendering but what she would look like if she wasn't constantly being destroyed by the land, sea, and air around her. the $1 makes it look more in line with the Euro and other coins that have been using numbers not words for decades. About time the coins were modernized, not if only they would stop trying to turn them into Pokemon that would be great.  Like I said about the ATB in another thread, all these circulating collector series coins only server to aid the US Mint in selling products and gimmick sets, it doesn't help the public in any way. This hold true to my opinion of the Lincoln and Jefferson ones as well. |
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I think that the Presidents were a poor choice for coin motifs - there are simply too many losers, and too many in general. I like all dollar coins, but I shy away from Prez dollars because there are tons of other things I'd rather spend $78 on. I can think of a few things I'd rather see on a series of American dollar coins:
- Continuing the states motif, issue a series of dollar coins, each with the [great] seal of a different state on them. The Seals are all round, so they make perfect coin designs! As a set, they would look consistent and professional.
- Or maybe a series of dollar coins depicting every state's legislative building (not sure if these are all called Capitols in the USA or what)? I know that the U.S. Mint people have a serious fetish for architecture (the Lincoln Memorial, Monticello, those 2009 commemoratives) so this would be right up their alley.
- Noteworthy space exploration missions and milestones.
- Other scientific milestones maybe, like one for each Nobel Prize?
- A never-ending series of coins honouring America's largest cities, starting with New York and working downwards by population.
- Maybe one dollar coin for every person honoured in that one statue gallery in D.C. where each state sends in two statues for display? This would certainly be a more interesting variety of people compared to the presidents.
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10/07/2015 11:31 pm
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Which one is the reverse?  Edited by SilverStackerKid
10/07/2015 11:27 pm
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I think the obverses may have been more appealing to collectors if they used conventional profile portraits instead of head-on or 3/4 views. I understand why they went with the fuller portraits, especially for the more obscure subjects but I just don't like them as a rule on coins. They ruined the Jefferson nickel with the new portraits as well. I would have also used an 11 or 13 sided constant curve with no edge writing and an alloy to approximate the golden coloring instead of cladding. When new the dollar coins look like a game token as they are too shiny, they also do not wear well. Regardless of the designs, composition and edges it failed as a circulation coin of course since the paper dollar still circulates. |
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@T-BOp said: Quote:the only modern day $1 coin that was somewhat widely used was the Ike dollar. I do not remember these circulating widely either in their day. People said they were too heavy to use. Maybe it was a local thing? But since people won't even use halves (since long ago when the half stopped buying most of what you would need in a day), these Ikes were said to be really heavy. ...but I liked them for the novelty. I remember spending some and people saying they had never seen them - back in the day they were making them. |
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That's interesting because an Ike weighs exactly the same as 10 dimes or 4 quarters.
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I like Draped Bust Dollars--lol
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