The most hated coin series

Not with coinage. Early in the war, the Confederacy siezed the Mints at New Orleans and Dahlonega (Georgia), but did very little with them; they had almost no gold or silver for making coinage.

There were some coins minted by the Confederacy; genuine examples are quite spendy.

I suppose there were some tokens which might have inspired some emotion, but emotions were already running very high due to much weightier issues. I doubt coins or tokens fanned the flames very much compared to the underlying issues of the day.

 

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The Fractional Gold coinage of the California Gold Rush were WAY beyond the limits of irritability ! :headbang: Imagine a micro-coin with 25c worth of gold. :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

Very interesting history in those if you're interested.

 

You nailed it John....

 

Totally freakin' disagree....

 

IKE's and SBA's

 

Dead spot on. We're going to suffer through dozens and dozens more of these things.

Tried using a couple yesterday, and of course they were double-checked hard to see if they were tokens, because they LOOK like tokens!

Whoever devised the presidential dollars must be ignorant of the whole dollar coin topic. And they're UGLY, with the obverse face portrait rather than a profile.

 

During the US Civil War the 2 cent coin was created. The obverse design selected was the "Union Shield", specifically to note that it was Union money and not Confederate.

The silver Three Cent, Two Cent, and just after the Civil War the Five Cent, were the only coins at the time to not have a depiction of Lady Liberty.

 

I agree, we are going to see more and more of these series coin releases. For this reason, I think I'm going to stop collecting modern circulation issues and focus solely on commemoratives for my modern coin fix.

 

I noticed a lot of people dislike SBA's,but what I would like to know is it more the coin design or the relative attractivness of the person on it that causes the dislike.If,for example,Farah Fawcett were on it instead of Susan B. would it change your opinion of the coin?

 

I think a lot of people dislike it because it has a reeded rim, is silver in color and is too close in size to the quarter. As a result, it is easily mistaken for a quarter. The Sac and Presidential Dollars have helped to remedy this by making the rim smooth and the color golden.

As far as the design quality itself, yeah it's ugly and people don't like that. But, that's true of many of the modern coins. I think if they put Farah Fawcett on the coin using the modern design styles even she wouldn't be so attractive.

I think the true sad part about the SBA is the design that got rejected. In 1977, there was a Liberty Dollar design proposed and it was turned down in favor of the SBA and it was beautiful. That's the saddest part to me.

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My objections to the SBA, was a departure from the history of coinage in the US, starting with the images of Liberty, (which I still prefer) to honoring past Presidents. I can work with the President images probably because of my interest in US History. But using the SBA and then Sacagawea images were PC decisions that ignored, as of 1979, 186 years of coinage history.

The size and color of the SBA were probably driven by lobbying. And without a strong Sectry of Treasury and strong Mint leadership we can assume all such decisions were politically based, and will continue to be.

 

I used to not like Barbers very much... until I bought a few really nice ones!!! Now I love them.







The design/coin I like least is the Morgan Dollar... just a big boring coin that anyone can find pretty much at any show.

 

I agree entirely with this. What a design reject! Perhaps Lady Liberty can be revived someday!

I don't like SBA's lantern jaw and hatchet-eyed look. The wrong message there. Spinster bun.

I keep assuming the Barber design is of a man; a youthful Roman of some sort.

 

Those 19th century 2.5/5/10/20 Liberty Gold coins are gastly. Libby just looks like such a blockhead. encil: Ripley

 

Good post Camaro,I wasnt trying to insinuate that people had shallow reasons for disliking SBA's with my lame attempt at humor.I think you hit the nail on the head for a lot of people.
Also Pennyguy,you're right on about the PC crowd designing this coin.A thrown-together design if there ever was one,they couldn't even come up with an original reverse.
I don't really hate any series,but I'm starting to dislike the Pres's more and more.It should be something to look forward to,to adding the latest one to my album.Instead,like a poster said earlier it's becoming a chore.I guess the first couple years of the series we were dealing with our founding fathers and I could accept the clownish portraits,but now that we're into the lesser Prezs they are harder to look at.

 

I guess I like the pres dollars the least because of hard to read info on the edge- I have to use a magnifying glass.

 

Probably the most ridiculous coin ever minted was the Wisconsin state quarter, but I can't say I hate it. That cow is just too cute to hate.

 

Yea gunsmoke, I like cows too.....and Wisconsin....and Minnesota..even though I've lived on the east coast all my life.

 

As I said in the world coin section, I don't hate any-every coin has a place in my collection. BUT, I have to say I am not a very big fan of the Buffalo Nickel. They wore far too easily, and while I prefer circulated coins, I don't like them to be so circulated that the portrait looks like a lump and the date is gone. Which is how most of them I see are! (also, oddly, I have never gotten one in circulation, yet I've pulled 38 and 39 Jeffersons within the last few months!)

I am also not that big a fan of the Morgan dollar. I know that may be sacriledge to some, but I find them rather boring. I don't really think they are worthy of the massive media hype they recieve. I have three, that is enough for me, unless I get a really really good deal on them somewhere.

I think the SBA has to be the most hated coin in history, based on this thread! LOL! I have never really liked it, much, (the obverse anyway) but I always thought it was kind of cool to get them in change, because it was always something odd, a curiosity.

 

I honestly think that if the Prez, Sac and Native American dollars actually circulated, there would be much more interest, and much more appreciation of the designs.

I honestly don't think they're intrinsically ugly. The problem is that the Mint is forced to keep puking them out, to a non-receptive and dsinterested public because Congress doesn't have the cajones to save the taxpayer money and discontinue the paper dollar.

Inertia is a powerful force in politics, and the Congress just doesn't have any motivation to take on the two weeks of the outraged .001% of American Letters to the Editor writers who'd expressed outrage that we were substituting dollar bills with coins.

As far as intrinsically unappealing designs, I'd have to agree with the Big Head coins, like Ikes and Kennedys, and, of course, the poor and unlamented SBAs.

And to counter an earlier expression of taste, I LOVE the look of the Plats.