A circulating rarity, coins aimed at kids and maybe colorized coins. From Coin World. https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-c...onsiders-circulating-rarity-for-2019.all.html
The Mint is in the marketing business. If it gets more young folks into collecting, more power to them. If I don’t like them, I’ll leave them on the shelf, which is my tendency already.
Going the way of Philatelics. A couple of silver cents, a 1964 morgan, and an eagle with no feathers in a Pear Tree.
Re: the Inovations dollar program They have a real uphill battle there considering a LOT of coin collectors who would normally be the target audience have already expressed that THEY have no interest in it. You can imagine the problem with getting the general public interested. Anyone believe that? They have been issuing Presidential medals for decades. Anyone here really excited about the idea of buying 45 1 oz silver President medals at $40 a pop? Hmmm the mintages after being on sale for two months don't seem to be setting the world on fire. Oh and US Mint, if you do release a "rarity" into circulation, don't mention what it is until at LEAST a couple months after it has been released.
That would be good for the rarity, but I am too old to believe that influential personage can not get a roll or two reserved for them and my time is to short to look at every coin in my change to see if something is 'different and rare'. And can any one imagine how Youtube and its devotees of rare coinage would crush the forum with " Hey you all , do you see anything different about this coin? If not I have another 1000 to post, so hang on!"
They have collector's kits and a bunch of other stuff now. Hey, you can even pull out your crayons and give a shot at coloring some coins yourself ==> https://www.usmint.gov/learn/kids/games/coloring-pages They had pages with examples of actual colored US coins too. I can't find that page now.
