2015 March of Dimes Silver Dollar Design Candidates

All those "Dimes" that got donated added up to "Dollars" :secret:

 

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Laws in place for a Commemorative Dollar not the dime, and the law makers got better things to do things to do than pass a new law. Like play a round of golf and get a few million in backing.

 

Since when does the executive branch obey the law? Just make a dime.

 

I do not understand why they would not consider a reproduction of the Mercury obverse and reverse since that was the dime FDR used for the "March of Dimes".

 

The Executive branch has no control over the mint.

 

I don't know.. trying to cram the art on a tiny dime would be a little ridiculous just to fit the "dimes" theme. Aren't nearly all commems dollars or halves? I think that should take precedence when deciding what kind of coin it goes on, to fit the overall style of commems. I doubt if they even considered putting it on a dime. Kinda cool idea to put it on a dime, they would have to drastically change the art though. Its funny that they would have a design with a coin on a coin.

 

I think they are working on a mercury gold ounce coin for 2016, or something like that. So that would conflict with it.

 

Well them Mint is part of the Treasury Dept and the Treasury isn't Legislative or Judicial so I think it IS controlled by the Executive Branch.

 

Congress authorizes commems, not the President.

 

I like O-15 but none of the reverses. I think O-16 would make a good reverse, a child walking away from a wheelchair.

 

The US Mint reports to the President through the Treasury. Which gets back to my point, since when does the executive care about the law? Just make a dime.

 

Who says a dime has to be a certain size? The mint makes 5 ounce quarters.

https://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/w...catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=17390

 

Obv. 16 or 18
Rev. 2, 5, 16, or 18

 

When I was in college a political science instructor showed a compilation of World War II Nazi propaganda films.

One clip used trick photography to show Pres. Roosevelt sitting in a wheelchair eating dinner in front of a globe with the announcer saying that he was "carving up the world".

 

Thanks for the link. I had no idea they made the 5oz. coins. you are right, they should make a dollar sized coin but just call it a dime.

 

That's my preference as well. I like the jugate portraits of Roosevelt and Salk, but Salk's body needs to extend to the bottom of the coin - it looks clumsy to have him floating in space.

The child walking away from the wheelchair is an emotionally powerful image and captures the success of the organization's original mission.

 

The child walking away from the wheelchair is good, but it feels more like a reverse to me than an obv.

 

Depends which design they pick I think lol... speaking for myself the reason that I had no interest in the Civil Rights commem. is because I found the design bland; interest in the subject has little to do with whether or not I want a given commem. I suspect that may be the case with many others too. Before the Baseball Hall of Fame coins the last commems I remember anyone getting excited about, to the point where they sold out quickly, were the Ben Franklin commems (though the Marine Corps dollars from the year before generated even more excitement; a perfect cross of both a good subject and a good design that excited both collectors and non-collectors).

I reserve judgement until I see what design they go with. To me, the design is everything in deciding what commems. I bother to buy for my collection.

 

I agree about the Marine Corps dollars. Then again, it may be because I'm a retired Marine.

 

The design wasn't the most original; I can't see how a Marine commem. could have been anything other than the raising the flag of Iwo Jima. But original or not, it was a great iconic design. Anybody in the Marines, or had family or friends in the Marines, wanted it; coin collectors wanted it; probably even a few people who had nothing to do with the Marines or regularly collected coins wanted it. You'd be hard pressed to find a better modern U.S. commemorative than that one. (Star Spangled Banner is the only one I think comes close; a distant third I'd say was the reverse of the WW2 half dollar.)