A little press on new nickels

[Architecht]

Marginally interesting:

 

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Betterbanking/P110582.asp

[cpm9ball]

Marginally interesting:

 

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Betterbanking/P110582.asp

 

Arch, what is extremely interesting to me and probably some others on the boards is the revamp of the Lincoln cent, the possible introduction of a dollar coin featuring every U.S. President and, as Henrietta Fore stated, "We are in a renaissance of coin design........It's a bit of art and history..."

 

The spectacular increase in the number of collectors spurred by the States Quarters program seems to have awaken Congress from the dead (from a numismatic point of view). Apparently, every denomination will come under scrutiny. Could it be that allegorical figures may yet return to our coinage since the dollar coin is slated for Presidents?

 

Chris

[gmarguli]

as Henrietta Fore stated, "We are in a renaissance of coin design........It's a bit of art and history..."

 

Art? Henrietta apparently hasn't looked at the [#@$%!!!] coming out of the mint if she is calling it art. She needs to look at the mint's coin collection if she wants to see art. Old technology, poor production facilities and materials, and they still blow away what is being produced today.

 

 

Could it be that allegorical figures may yet return to our coinage since the dollar coin is slated for Presidents?

 

No. Too much politics involved for Presidents to be taken off coins and replaced with something as meaningless as liberty, freedom, and justice.

[cpm9ball]

Greg, don't be so pessimistic. Aren't ambassadors supposed to have tact and lie occasionally? Fore didn't say masterpieces of the art world , she said a bit of art . How good it is is another matter, but at least it's a start.

 

Chris

[jom]

What the Virginia debacle wasn't enough politics for you?

 

Now they want ALL the Presidents (mostly all dead) for more bad coinage. Great...just great.

 

Well, it least it's different...maybe we can hope for some nice reverse designs. I don't trust the mint with much but they did do a good job with the Saca dollar, it's metal and toning not withstanding.

 

jom

[cpm9ball]

What the Virginia debacle wasn't enough politics for you?

 

Now they want ALL the Presidents (mostly all dead) for more bad coinage. Great...just great.

 

Well, it least it's different...maybe we can hope for some nice reverse designs. I don't trust the mint with much but they did do a good job with the Saca dollar, it's metal and toning not withstanding.

 

jom

 

Jom , maybe I'm reading too much between the lines, but if they enact legislation putting Presidents on a circulating dollar, it seems to me that would be an indication that they are considering removing Presidents from other denominations. Then, one should ponder...... what other image could we use on the obverse of those denominations?

 

Chris

[Architecht]

Oh I dunno. I think if we want great coin designs, we had to go through a period of breaking loose from the old designs and "limbering up" so to speak.

[Hoot]

The march of the dead presidents on the dollar sounds awful to me. That's what medals are for. Now if the designs of ALL the other denominations were to change simultaneously (perhaps some nice invertebrates on the obverse of our circulating coinage), then I could get behind the idea of the needless, oh, I mean endless procession of presidents on a non-circulating coin.

 

Hoot

[gmarguli]

The march of the dead presidents on the dollar sounds awful to me. That's what medals are for.

 

 

Come on now, you can't hide your excitement about the thought of having a circulating coin with Benjamin Harrison, or Rutherford Hayes, or Franklin Pierce on it.

[Hoot]

The march of the dead presidents on the dollar sounds awful to me. That's what medals are for.

 

 

Come on now, you can't hide your excitement about the thought of having a circulating coin with Benjamin Harrison, or Rutherford Hayes, or Franklin Pierce on it.

 

 

[jom]

perhaps some nice invertebrates on the obverse of our circulating coinage

 

What?! You want to add Congressmen now too?! C'mon!

 

 

Rutherford Hayes

 

That's Rutherford "B" Hayes to you, bub.

 

jom