Presidential Dollars

i dont know, hope yes know right now I buy proof sets with presidents and get some P and S BU presidents from the bank.

Only time will tell, but in my opinion only the proofs have a chance of being valuable any time soon. My best advice is to collect them if you like them and do not be concerned with their potential value.

I agree on the proofs.

I have not bought an album for the Presidential dollars yet, but I am leaning towards buying a date only album and fill it with proofs. One thing pushing me this way is that I see no point of collecting mint marks if I cannot see them when they are in the album!

I agree with wd1040. It's the same deal with the Statehood Quarters. If everyone is collecting them, who are they going to sell them to? I like both items because it has introduced lots of people to our hobby.

Well so far, I'm putting together 3 sets: 1 for me, 1 for a special someone and one to haul back to China to sell.

I already have a full set of Quarters, so I'm going to see which dealer I can fob off for 200RMB this June.

I'm also going to bring back a few stacks of $2s and about 20 rolls of Presidentials

But, it's always nice to build your own UNC set at first, but don't think you're going to make much money off of it... unless you haul it to a foreign country!

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I think what we need the most is a banknote redesign, not bookloads of new coin designs year after year after year. I, for one, like how many new notes are using more modern fonts, like those from Mexico and Switzerland.

I would also like the portrait moved to the right side of the note which allows for the watermark to be placed on the left and the documentation, etc in the middle. I just think this looks more balanced than the ones we have now...

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One issue affecting the future price appreciation of BU Presidential dollars is the lack of widespread circulation of same. A large percentage of these BU business strike dollars never enter circulation, or are removed from circulation very early. This means that a much larger percentage of the total mintage survives as BU coins than for any other current business strike issue (yes, including the State Quarters!). ( Unless they end up sending millions of the Presidential dollars to Ecuador like they did with the Sacagawea's..... )

I'd wager that very few of the BU business strike Dollars obtained at face value are used in circulation (ie: 'spent'). The U.S. Mint would love it if more people spent them, because they make 78¢ profit on each Dollar coin.

jbuck makes a great point about 'why bother?' collecting by mintmark when you can't see the mintmarks when the coins in the album!

There wouldn't be anything wrong with a 'date-only' 2007-2016 Folder, filled with BU coins that you got for $1 each. Complete sets of BU coins are always nice to look at! I filled a couple of 50-coin 'date-only' State Quarter folders. It's neat to see the 50 BU coins together as a set, and they only cost me face value + $3 for the folder.

So... a BU date set (compiled for face value) will be a nice 'keepsake' set to look at, just don't expect any major value appreciation for those in this century.

I have a couple Dansco DPS Albums that I'm keeping up. That's because I am one of the minority who like the Presidential dollars.

I also have a roll of each Dollar, Washington through Van Buren. I'm starting to think that's a lot of money to tie up, when I could be buying other coins with it.

Value? I doubt that most CCF members will live long enough to see a real profit in Presidential dollars. Even many years from now, as indicated by some of the previous posts, they will be too common to show much of a profit.