Restrikes of classic designs

The problem is that the mint is so busy putting out bullion rounds for investors that serve no purpose at all that they don't have time to put out decent looking circulating coins.

Cut out all the gold, silver and platinum collector BS and they could turn down the speed of the presses and actually DO THE JOB for which they were created

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

If the classic designs were for circulation... I'd rather not see a Barber dime, a Standing Lib quarter, or a Walking Lib half struck in, of all things, Clad cupronickel! I don't think that anything can replace those in silver.

 

A return to older, slower, more costly methods won't happen in this lifetime. It's a world of budget cuts right now in many areas, this being one. Would take a huge cultural shift to put more money behind this process. Not only a renewed interest in the minting process, but a reduction of spending elsewhere. We're simply dropping too much on Edited- stop political and other crap.

 

EDITED- Stop political remarks ~ see rules.

As for making a better product, we're paying such a ridiculous markup for mint products, the least they could do is give us some value/quality for our money.

 

I like that commem. And the dollar one too.........guess I'm not so discerning.

 

No more political comments ~ see rules!

 

Oops, sorry!

I like it, too.

 

Totally over my head. Must be the bourbon........

 

The detail and relief of classic designs can be made with today's equipment. There's incredible detail on some of the ATB quarters and look no further than the 2009 UHR $20 gold for relief. The problem is that there is not the will to make them effectively. The 2006 "Granite Lady" commems you cite look a bit off to the casual collector, and hideous to anyone who has studied either of the featured designs closely. The 2001 Buffalo nickel commemorative dollar is another example of this. Die life and the ability to produce cameo (and reverse cameo) proofs are more important than artistic quality of the finished result.

 

I agree that the clad crap is ugly but the 40% silver clad they used on 1965-69 half's would look OK.

 

Exactly, that was the comment from the CCAC when they chose the designs for this years AtB Quarters. They passed over some real art for designs that would "look good as cameo proofs".

 

That's what we need, more people that will stand up for billionaires, as we know they don't do it themselves.

 

The coins would definately have to be in the original composition, not clad for previously 90% silver, etc.....and be a decent price (yeah, right... not sure if that would happen with the way alot of things are done nowadays, but I can dream.)

They wouldn't have to be for general circulation, and they could be made in several different styles....business strike, classic proof, reverse proof, etc... And produced in quantities such that people could actually order.

On some of the styles they could mint lower quantities and set it up where you register for whichever varieties you would like and give a credit card # one time, then they pick numbers at random for people to get 1 specimen of that particular type they are drawing for, and so on...

I myself cannot afford most original specimens, but I would gladly buy the business strikes of as many as I could (provide, of course, that they are reasonably priced), and probably register for a few special ones, with the hope that i would get picked.

It would take some effort to set up a good system, but I think they would be very popular.

 

I would love this. I'd buy every one, if they were done in their original size and composition.

 

I agree that it'd be nice if they did them with original specifications, like what they did with the 2009 special Lincoln cents (I think). I'm not sure why they feel it's necessary to make everything in .9999 fine gold.

 

I'd love to see a new high-relief Peace dollar in silver.

 

I too would love to see all of the old designs redone in their original composition. I think it would be really cool to have those in a collection. I can just imagine what kind of detail they could get with today's equipment.

 

IMO, just say no.

I don't like the idea of reproducing old designs. I'd much prefer to see them work on new designs that incorporate Miss Liberty (Walking, standing, sitting, bust, whatever) that also include some of the countries achievements. I also believe the devil will be in the details of the design. Today's clad low relief designs are a shell of the originals.

Leave the old designs alone. They are great, but I think new ones will bring new collectors to the hobby much like the state quarter program did in '99.

 

I don't know, don't coins usually reflect contemporary themes? Is Liberty really appropriate today? Yeah, it's nostalgic, but more realistically shouldn't we be glorifying the corporations, Edited,