New Roosevelt Dime?

Time for Mercury dime version 2.0.

The Roosevelt dime has been largely unchanged for 65 years now. When the Jefferson nickel approached that age, at least they honored the Lewis & Clark expedition and changed the obverse for 2005 and 2006 to add some flair to the coin. Sure, the Lincoln Cent has had largely the same obverse since 1909, but they have changed the reverse several times since then.

At the very least, I'd like to see a new bust of Roosevelt, maybe based on a photograph or his White House portrait and have a new reverse, maybe the Mercury dime reverse.

I know the Washington quarter was originally intended to only be a commemorative. Wasn't that true of the Lincoln Penny, too?

I voted yes .. change it

I think there must be a new artist out there .. that could design a

Modern Miss Liberty .. something strong .. sexy .. powerful ..

Oh .. with nice eyes ... I like nice eyes

I thought I read that they weren't going to revert to the Standing Liberty design for '34 because the Washington proved to be easier to produce and put less wear and tear on its dies, and the Washington design stuck around until 1998 (and I've also read that people loved the coin so much when it first entered circulation in 1932 that the design stuck).

The Lincoln Cent, I thought, was always going to be the replacement for the Indian Head cent. Saint Gaudens was going to redesign the cent, but he passed away, and Brenner was tasked with the redesign. The Mint wanted to replace the Lincoln in '52 or so, but they thought otherwise because they didn't want to upset presidential candidate Eisenhower (a Republican) by removing Lincoln (also a Republican). They could have replaced the Lincoln Cent with a Kennedy one for '64 (But there were probably political party issues, replacing a Republican with a Democrat, along with probably some feeling the cent not being a big enough coin to honor JFK).

While I agree with muddler when liberty would be the only design in my opinion that would be worth changing to, I belive there has been enough change lately and especially with the introduction of presidential series.

Give me LIBERTY, or give me death! Gee. Haven't I heard that somewhere?

Like so many others, I think it's time to bring some representation of Lady Liberty back. I for one would love to see something in the style of the Seated Liberty design.