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United States
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Is anyone else disenfranchised by the modern coins the US Mint has been putting out? I pretty much lost interest after the Statehood Quarters/Territories. They were a novel idea and it ran its course. But the powers that be decided that we needed more. It's just a bit much. All these extra coins making the mint and proof sets bigger and more costlier. I missed the basic sets pre 1999. Small, and cheap. I was excited about the dollar coins when the Sac dollars were introduced as I believe we should be using dollar coins rather than the paper note. But as time went on, something terrible happened. Edge lettering. Not having the date and mintmark on the obverse was a deal breaker for me. And then there were those Prez dollars nobody wanted. But they had to be produced because some legislatures said so. Widely unpopular with the public. Billions of these things were/are sitting in government vaults to this very day. Now we again have another series of dollar coins. I mean enough of the multiple designs already. Now, if the mint insists on doing this then at least make a regular design to co-circulate with the special designs so collecters that don't want the other coins can still have some continuity with their collection...but of course with the date and mintmarks on the obverse! There, done ranting!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Disenfranchised? No. Numismatics is what it is. I'm still having fun, and pay little attention to coins/numismatic products I'm not interested in.
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Pillar of the Community
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I mean I kinda like the new quarter obverse but I'd rather have seen a new permanent reverse, not a rotating one.
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Canada
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@The Force: The new designs are more propaganda. You has to understand that the time change and visions also. Me I stop collect those coins because I do not consider relevant, but is just personal opinion. About the one dullard bill: If this will be replaced just by coins will mean that the entity of US dissipate. I hope not.
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Quote:I like the American Innovation Dollars and the women's quarters. I'm tired of dead presidents though. I want liberty back The edge lettering just is a turn off. I'm with you though on the boring dead presidents. I'm sure they could come up with other Americans of interest or even Liberty as you suggested. |
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United Kingdom
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As an Englishman, I prefer the way the US Mint issues coins to what The Royal Mint is doing in the UK. Most US commemorative coins still show important historical figures and commemorate major events. The State Quarters and the series that followed them were struck in reasonable quantities and are easy to find in change, unlike the British A-Z 10p coins. Our NCLT coins are overpriced and many of them commemorate ridiculous things like the Gruffalo, Mr Men or minor royal birthdays. My only criticism of the US coin scene is that dollars and half-dollar coins are so seldom found in circulation (although I try to get them circulating a bit more every time I visit the States!) |
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Is anyone else disenfranchised by the modern coins the US Mint has been putting out? Not at all. To each their own though.  |
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United States
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I've cut back to collecting a year set, just one design per denomination per year, whichever design I like best.
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The edge lettering just is a turn off. I'm with you though on the boring dead presidents. I'm sure they could come up with other Americans of interest or even Liberty as you suggested. I don't look at the edge.  |
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United States
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Good point. The edge is meaningless in an album. It is why I only collect proof (and reverse proof) baby dollars since they started doing edge lettering.
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Canada
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I'm taking a pass with the Innovation Dollars. They aren't circulating. I like how the Sac dollars have a new design every year and a different person/event to learn more about. I collected the President dollars. For all of these quarters and dollars, I'm just getting one example of each. It may be P or D. I'm not going to pull my hair out and try to get P, D, S & W. In general, I much prefer to find coins in circulation to add to my collection than having to pay over face value from the Mint or a dealer.
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United States
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In terms of moderns, some are nice. The ASE are WOW.   I like the Nickel and Lincoln Cent Commemoratives.  AGE  But most quarters, dimes and halfs don't interest me. Edited by hfjacinto
10/17/2022 8:30 pm
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United States
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OP, I agree with you. I got sick of this current era of "circulating commemoratives" a long time ago. Let's go back to one design each for the cent, nickel, dime, quarter, half, and dollar, and be done with it.
And for what it's worth, what they don't seem to have figured out yet is that if they want people to switch over to dollar coins, quit printing dollar bills, and quit putting a million designs on the dollar coins that will inevitably make people hoard them!
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And for what it's worth, what they don't seem to have figured out yet is that if they want people to switch over to dollar coins, quit printing dollar bills...  |
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United States
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I continue to collect the modern coins. In fact, my oldest coin is a 1930 Lincoln Cent. These include the cent, five cent, ten cent, quarter dollar, half dollar and dollar all the way through 2022 and all in mint state condition. Too often in this hobby, like in life, it is so very easy for people to complain about everything. To me, that is a pathetic existence. In the 1970s collectors complained about a void of commemoratives, now they complain about too many of them. You cannot please all of the people all of the time, that is life. I have been collecting on and off for more than four decades, and while I may not like this or that, I enjoy looking at each new coin that arrives and learning about those series I collect, and those I do not. |
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