Eagles-R-it started a thought I just can't put aside.

I tend to agree that the new circulation coins are dull, flat and lifeless. The quality has a lot to be desired, as we are supremely focused on how to make a billion coins a month. Even the collector coins are fraught with stories of horrendous striked, contact marks and just plain junk. What it must have been like to live in an era when you could have searched through your coins and looked at Indian Cents, Buffalo Nickels, Mercury Dimes, Standing Liberty Quarters and Walkers! Not to mention going to the bank and getting dollar coins that would have been Peace or Morgans!!

We seem to have fallen asleep and feel comfortable using the same old tired designs for 200 years...

Enough of the rant.

The real reason for this post was Gasparro's vision for the small dollar coin in 1977. Now that is a coin I would still be collecting today! If your not familiar with this concept check out the attached link.

http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/page04.html

Waiting on the next great coin design...

Todd

Today's pic - I do like the reverse of the Roosevelt dime, but I also believe it's time for a change...

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