You know...I truly love these coins.

Greetings!

I am acquiring more and more prezzies lately as these coins are seemingly getting more circulated.

I really love these coins. I think there are 2 reasons why I do love them so much.

First, they tend to remind us of the past presidents that we as a modern society may have forgotten about. There is a history lesson in each coin if we all want to take time to research the era of the past presidents. The coins seem to make the faceless history into more of a tangible, living thing.

Second, the depiction of the statue of liberty on the reverse is just amazing. How many of our ancestors that we may not even know existed saw the statue as they were boating into New York? This also puts us all in touch with our immigrant heritage, reminds me how tough it must have been to make ends meet, and to start a new life so far from "home".

The symbolism of the prezzies does it for me. I am glad to have started collecting the Proofs from the start...I almost did NOT get the first Proof set...glad I did now.

Just the other day I got some prezzies from the bank just to spend for lunches...kinda cool handing over the prezzies for a sandwich....what's more American than that?

Peace to all of you!!