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Rest in Peace
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Quote:I also have a live spell check in the wonderful girl sitting on right. My wife should be a proof reader. She can see not only a misspelled word from 100 yards, she also knows what words are used incorrectly. She has to work overtime to keep my post straight.  Yokozuna, love your honesty. I am in the same boat, my wife is "a live spell checker." I sometimes cringe trying to decipher some of the members post. I know a lot of people are in a hurry but it looks pretty unprofessional when basic spelling words are crucified. Excuse my rant my second career was a Middle School Teacher. Please attempt to use Spell Check. Oh Ya, most banks around my neck of the woods do not like the Presidential dollars. How many years more of this folly?  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Don't get me wrong, I do like the idea of dollar coins but not how they are now. The whole program is a big blunder.
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New Member
United States
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Not to derail the shunning of the Prez Dollars... but: How in the world is it possible for $25.00 Rolls of Presidential dollars to sell for 30-35 dollars + shipping? Single coins UNC going for $2 - $2.50... Signed: Cfib Confused Edited by cfibaker
08/18/2011 08:46 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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waste of time and money--either get rid of paper or coin we dont need both
Retired USAF 1983-2003
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Valued Member
United States
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The Presidential dollar coin program was DOA because they didn't eliminate the paper dollar. I think the mint looked at the success of the State Quarter program and figured that any program like that would work - clearly they made a mistake. I suppose that we are doomed to several more years to finish off all the presidents that the program covers, but they should scale the mintage numbers back drastically, sort of like what they do with Kennedy halves. |
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United States
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Personally, I think modern American coins are too "wordy", so anything that reduces the word count is OK with me.  Our coins do have too much lettering - "United States of America," "E Pluribus Unum," "Liberty," "In God We Trust," the date, the denomination, the designer's initials and whatever other design elements some committee decides to clog it up with. Can you imagine being an artist and trying to cram all those things onto a tiny coin and still make it look good? No wonder they haven't made any changes to the dime in 65 years. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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although some others like them and may not. they look like tokens that kids use at arcades like chuck e cheese. they don't resemble currency to me and thus I do not care for them. Might be why they are doing that. At places like Chuck E Cheese by me you have to buy those tokens with real money. Now with our dollar coins you could just use them. They do look the same.  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Might be why they are doing that. At places like Chuck E Cheese by me you have to buy those tokens with real money. Now with our dollar coins you could just use them. They do look the same. At least if you put a Chuck E. Cheese token in an album, you'd be able to tell what year it was made without removing it...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Although I'm not crazy about the edge lettering, all the ones that (Prez and NA dollars) have that have designs that are unique to a single year (although the MM is still an issue). And most albums label the holes.
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Well, by law, wouldn't the mint have to assassinate Carter? They have contracts, ya know! lol just kidding..
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But I do have a problem with putting the date and mintmark on the edge. Collectors like collecting coins by date and mintmark. If these things are supposed to be primarily issued for collector interest, why did they go to extra trouble to make these coins less appealing for collectors? Well said. Although I cannot say if I prefer it, I do not mind displaying $1 instead of ONE DOLLAR on the dollar coins. My biggest complaint is the date and mint mark being on the edge. If that were to change, who knows how I would really feel about the $1.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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So they will skip the "Carter" $1 and go right to the "Regan" coin. Interesting? I think so. =) Actually it depends on how the law is interpreted. Since the law requires the presidents to be honored in the order in which they served you can't skip over one that doesn't qualify to get to one that does. At least that is the interpretation the mint is currently using. When the law was passed Reagan already qualified, but the issue date production schedule published by the mint ended with Nixon because Ford and Carter were still alive. When Ford died his coin was added to the schedule but Reagan still isn't on the list because Carter is still alive. If Carter lasts through either 2014 or 2015, I'm not sure which, then he will not qualify for his coin and there will be no Reagan dollar. Edited by Conder101
08/22/2011 4:56 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
594 Posts |
They should move the date and mint mark back to the obverse, like the early Sacagawea's. Put "E. Pluribus Unum" and "In God We Trust" on the edge. Center Lady Liberty on the reverse. Perhaps leave the torch out, just her arm draped to her side. Add a rainbow of thirteen stars above her head. Spell out the "One Dollar" below her. And also make it slightly larger than the half dollar. Do all this and at the same time discontinue the one dollar bill.  Man, I should work at the Mint! |
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United States
543 Posts |
I have to say I think it is informal. The quarter has 'quarter dollar' and the dollar bill has 'one dollar,' yet the one dollar coin says $1. Everything is crammed on the front and side of the coin (even though I don't mind the designs) yet the reverse with the Statue of Liberty has so much breathing room.
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Posted 08/18/2011 07:55 am
