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Valued Member
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I don't get it.
People in the general population don't give one fig about a date or mint mark on the coins. About the only people that care are the people like us, who collect.
Who does the Mint think that they are impressing by putting the dates and mint marks on the edges of the coins?
It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Oops, sorry folks... I used "Mint", and "think" in the same sentence. There's something that doesn't happen very often.
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United States
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I agree. I recently got a few rolls of dollars from the bank to try and put a set of Presidential dollars together. I REALLY got annoyed with trying to search a roll for that stupid date and mint mark on the edge. I stopped after going through what I had and just bought some uncirculated ones for $2 from the local coin dealer. It totally turned me off of roll searching the new dollars. |
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I could not agree more!  It really bothers me that they moved the date on the Native American dollars to the edge. But what can I do? Oh yeah, I can choose to not collect them!  |
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United States
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just wait until you get one of those ungodly dollars. they're a pox upon us. I got the email about them around here somewhere, who'da thunk our country would have slipped so low/ |
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Quote:It really bothers me that they moved the date on the Native American dollars to the edge. But what can I do? Oh yeah, I can choose to not collect them! Now I can understand being upset about the mintmark, but if you can't look at a one year only type coin and figure out the date, you've got some problems.  Edited by Conder101
06/11/2009 1:54 pm
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New Member
United States
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What the edge lettering has done has forced me to collect *two* from each mint....one with the edge lettering facing one way and the other with it facing the other way.
Not that I'm OCD or anything......;)
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Would putting dates and mintmark on the edge not help preserve it ? Less wear I'm thinking?For general circulation purposes I mean , I think the UK pound coin does this.
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Now I can understand being upset about the mintmark, but if you can't look at a one year only type coin and figure out the date, you've got some problems. :) Let me elaborate, as I have spread information across several threads.  I have a problem with the date being moved because of how unbalanced the obverse looks now. I would have been happier if they had split the motto into "In God" and "We Trust" to balance it out. The record shows that I had no real problem with the date on the edge of the Presidential dollars, but took issue with the mint mark being there! I also mention it here, here and here. |
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which thread do I bump?  |
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Would putting dates and mintmark on the edge not help preserve it ? Less wear I'm thinking? I've seen quite a few where the date and mintmark are impressed to close to the edge, and not fully showing. If the dollar coin ever takes off like they want it to....the abuse of dropping them into vending machines will pretty much obliterate date and mm on circulating coins! Imho |
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which thread do I bump? Of the five links I gave, only one is not an archived thread. Since you cannot add posts to archived threads, I guess the answer becomes obvious! |
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I never thought of that ratman4762 , theres so many different coins it gets kinda silly.If a majority of any one issue get obliterated generally,its got to be good news for the collector.
They tried to force the pound coin on the whole of the UK , Scotland didnt cave so no reason the US should.England wishes now they hadnt scrapped the pound note..too late.
They would be using Euros if the people in charge always got their way.
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Quote:but if you can't look at a one year only type coin and figure out the date, you've got some problems. The only problem with that is who is going to remember which year that "one year only type coin" was minted? The edge lettering does not bother me either way. "I dont really care to have the date on the edge though." The same thing with the Presidential dollars. in a few years most people are not going to know which year each Presidential dollar was minted in. I guess you were speaking more of seeing it in an album though  |
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Posted 06/09/2009 5:38 pm
