Coin Experts Surveyed

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Interesting survey! I loved how they chose the 1909-O quarter as an alternate response for hard to find coins. It could very well be a hard to find coin, but I wouldn't put it on the same level as the 1804 dollar or 1913 V nickel.

I also like that they used a picture of an 1909-O half to illustrate an 1909-O quarter...

My nitpicking notwithstanding, thanks for posting!

 

Hoover?

 

Yeah, that sucks.

 

Hoover and Andrew Johnson wouldn't be my first choices to put on a coin. I bet >50% of the population doesn't even know they were presidents.

 

Nice survey...

 

Hey, I like Hoover. Sent troops to New Orleans during the flood. Unlike that jackamo Bush........

 

Truman should have his own denomination made from plutonium.

Chris

 

It's an affront to numismatics that Teddy Roosevelt is not on a US denomination. With the concession that all the "regular" guys we have there are worthy, too, but Teddy should have gotten Eisenhower's Dollar. I can't argue Kennedy getting the Half.

 

I vote a Jefferson coin - Jeff Davis that is..

 

Very interesting. Seems to be a bit skewed though. Most Presidents have already been honored in some way or another so I'm against anymore dead POTUS's for coins or bills. Time for bills to go back in time with engraving like the Educational series or even reverses with trademark U.S. scenery, maybe the Empire State Building, the original Trade Center Towers or obverse's with the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the landing of Columbus ships ??. I also vote for eliminating redundancy, Lincoln on a coin and bill, Washington on a coin and bill, unnecessary. I'm surprised some fool in D.C. has not yet passed a bill for Vice Presidents on our coinage. (OH, wait, that's for the next quarter series...) How about a series of quarters for the 50 most popular U.S. made cars of all time. The Morgan is the most over rated and over promoted coin of all time. We will never go back to the SBA because it was such a fiasco. The 1913 Liberty nickel really is not the hardest coin to find, we all pretty much know where they all are. And technically, and some may argue the point, if it was never intended for circulation and/or commerce then it should have been called a trial piece. The same with the aluminum cents that mysteriously vanished after being handed out with the orders to be returned after being evaluated.

 

Gotta wonder what "experts" were surveyed here. The 1913 nickel is easy to find if you have enough money. One comes up for auction every few years. Ditto the 1804 dollar. There are other, less famous US coins that are much more difficult to find. Of course, those each probably got a much smaller percentage of the remaining 74%.

The reasons behind Morgan dollars being overvalued are real head-scratchers. No MS70s? Used by Wyatt Erp [sic]? I have to wonder if this survey is a thinly veiled front to a promotion to move 3c silver and MS70 bullion and relieve people of their Morgan dollars at discounted levels.

 

Most favorite the 1946 Iowa statehood commemorative ?
I can think of at least a dozen commemorative issues that would be in demand more so....

 

I was thinking the same @messydesk. Who are these experts that don't know a 70 grade for a morgan is logically unobtainable. And why no mention of the 74d aluminum cent. That's harder to aquire than most I can think of regardless of ones pocketbook.

 

Could very well be slanted towards promotion. This was on a metals seller website. I'm not affiliated with them, just came across it and thought it was worth sharing, for good or bad.

Yea I don't think these are actual experts. Seems to me more like collectors and/or dealers that answered these questions. You can't always expect to agree with every answer, whether from experts or not, but there are so many questionable answers in this survey that it makes one wonder about the validity of "experts".

 

Some think a new COIN will be introduced? I really don't think so.

In any case, I'd LOVE to have a 5 dollar denomination coin. I'd go out and get rolls of them every week to use as cash, just like I did when the Sac dollars first came out.

Now, would these proposed $5 coins just end up like sac dollars: i.e., Not getting used in common circulation, or sent to Ecuador to be used as money there? Or would people actually use them?

I wonder if the higher, five-dollar denomination would make them desirable for use as coins?

 

I suppose since he was probably the most verbally abused president and had shanty towns known as Hoovervilles named after him, they thought the Mint ought to make it up to him. Or maybe the modern lack of historical knowledge kicked in.

 

Most surveys are really nothing more than one company spending a lot of money to sell their own product.

Chris

 

With credit and debit coins, PayPal, Apple Pay, etc., etc., etc., me thinks there won't be any need for additional general currency and coins.