How Much Life Does The Roosevelt Dime Have Left?

The first thing that needs to happen is that people need to want to do it. I don't think anyone wants to do it or feels a particular need to do it.

How do these changes take place? The last major change was replacing the Franklin half with the Kennedy half. A major tragedy had just taken place and the nation needed to salve its wounds, and this was a fitting way to do so.

But ever since we've moved from metaphors to real people on our coinage, politicians have been loathe to change, mainly because these men have become so identified with their representation on our money, it seems that it would be a sin to remove them. For example, who wants to be remembered as the person who took George Washington off the dollar bill?

I think that as we move from physical money in our daily lives to electronic commerce, our coins and bills take on less and less importance. We still use them, but we have more pressing things on our minds than thinking about them. Just look at the failure of all the recent dollar coins to take hold in the public's imagination. Non-collectors--of which there are hundreds of millions--just don't care, and neither do their elected representatives. Thus, our coins remain stagnant and will do so for the time being.

Personally I would rather see a rendition of Lady Liberty or something symbolic on our coins rather than old presidents. Besides we already have presidents on the paper notes so it's not like they are being snubbed.

Well JBuck, they did replace one ugly harpy with another after that!

I would not be opposed to having Reagan on the dime.

I don't think there is much chance of getting Roosevelt off the dime until all "the greatest generation" that revered him, their parents (almost all gone now), and the first half of the baby boomers, that grew up with tales from their parents about how great he was, have all passed on. That could be another thirty years or so.

I doubt that our government even thinks about messing with who is on what coin. If they ever do think about changing coins, it will be way to late. I suspect they already know money as we know it today is on it's way out.

I would prefer to have the Rossie changed to a non boring looking style or drop it. They could have minted the Mercury dimes til present and I would have had a interest still in dimes. At least they are Cool looking coins.