Future u.s. presidents on a dollar coin

presidential coinage

2007 first presidential golden dollar with pres. george washington on the observe. it will be a hit and the most popular one. mintage might be very high. but price on that coin can run up very high too.

 

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About once a month I go to the bank and just get about 4 rolls of Half dollars. I spend them everywhere just to watch the look on peoples faces that have never seen one before. Mostly the younger set. As to this latest thing about Presidents it reminds me of the famous Bicentennial coins that we all saved because they would someday be worth a fortune. Now everyone is dumping them back into change. I think soon all our coins will be a joke around the world with presidents, their wifes, dogs and cats and yes, someday Marilyn Monroe and Elvis on them. Of course to stay equal we will have to have an Elton John coin. Regardless of anything coin collectors think or say, these new type coins do exactly what the Mint wants. It creates new collectors and the more coins stashed away the more the Mint people have a secure job.

 

1976 bicentennial coins

i need at least 100 roll of each one dollar, half dollar and quarter silver or clad coins. but all those selling at the market. the condition were bad, boxes or cases ugly, mishandled by sellers. if those out there were just like fresh coming from the u.s. mint. i will buy it a lot.

 

The new Presidential coins will make millions, probably billions, for the U.S. Mint.

They will never circulate until the One Dollar Bill is eliminated from circulation.

I do look forward to the new series, but using the same portrait as the one on the medal series isn't a good idea. Also, the reverse needs a little more imagination than just to use the Statue of Liberty on each one.

Finally, the First Lady theme for the gold coins isn't very inspiring.

 

LOL... reminds me of that scene in Goonies... "Yeah, well he played Kennedy once!"

 

golden dollar

why not make the golden dollar like that of u.k. two pounds coin?. with bi-metalic or tri-metalic coin. and make it a little bit smaller. the reverse should be the presidential seal instead. and do not charge too much for selling to the general public. make it easier for people and collectors to get it free charges from the banks they do business with. continue the paper one dollar note too. so that colectors can have a complete paper note set. open an outlet at all big cities for people to buy u.s. mint products. maybe at the big department stores or discount stores.

 

The Millard Fillmore Dollar
A Coin whose time has come!

 

Time to get off of President Fillmore's back! There are plenty of 'disaster' type presidents who deserve critical commentary much more than this president who actually had a very successful term.

 

Don't be in such a rush! First we have to deal with the William Henry Harrison coin, which will be available from the Mint for longer than his entire one-month presidency; honoring a man whose major contribution to history was being the first US President to die in office.

 

presidential coins

who knows, i might be the first ugly lady president shown on coin in the year 2018 and please remember to collect me. because it should be the key date and rare for this series.

 

You've got your work cut out for you. You need to get elected and then die all in the next 10 years. :hail:

 

You are seeing article after article stating that these dollar coins will already FAIL before the first one is struck. Many will end up in sock drawers from novices believing that these coins are actually worth more than a dollar.

IKE, SBA, SAC and now these coins will all fail UNLESS we dump the paper dollar bill.

 

That depends on your definition of Failure.
The Govt. would consider a coin burried in a sock drawer a success. They made their money on the seignorage.

 

Rrr-really? I'm gonna start spending them soon, I've been promising to spend more $2s, halves, and dollars.

 

True, but first they have to get them out of THEIR sock drawer and into ours. If they can't get them out of the vaults, they are a failure at least as far a circulation coin goes. On the other hand they will be a success from the standpoint that most of them after the first year will be sold directly to collectors for a premium price. Just like the Sac dollars.

 

Personally, I think the series will be a huge success (like the quarters) because of their universality. What's more, I predict that the lesser known presidents will be more popular than the Reagans, Washington & Kennedy. For one thing, we already have coins with the popular presidents. I can hear my friends, I have an MS69 James K Polk!

 

I am willing to bet my entire collection that these coins WILL NOT circulate and will FAIL...quickly! Your typical high school educated cashier at the supermarket will not know what to do if she gets these coins in her drawer. She will be thinking they are some type of foreign made coins from a banana republic.

Remember, 3rd world countries HAVE to put pictures of their leaders on their coins to show the population who is in charge. That is what our dollar coins have come down to. Watch the mint spend MILLIONS on advertising and promotion of these new dollars...all for NOT! What a waste of OUR money!!

The state quarter program succeeded because the quarter is a work horse of our circulated coins and the reverse designs depicted what best represented the entire state, not one person...for the vast majority of these designs.

My favorite design:



So...any takers? I have a goal to sell my entire collection when I hit 50 (in 2010) and I would love to double my money.

 

Wow, I would love to own a conneticut just like that, and I personally hate the state quarters. May I ask where you obtained it?

 

I think the series will fail as well for the following reasons.

1) The paper dollar is still in circulation. People won't give that up for these dollars
2) The series is spread out waaaay too long. Over 11 years, people will get bored with the program, especially considering that design possibilities are extremely limited with this program.
3) It's a dollar, 4 times the value of a quarter. It will be 4 times more expenseive to obtain the circulated coins for numismatists.
4) The concept by it's nature is incomplete. The set will never be complete unless the nation its self fails. We'll never have ALL the presidents, only the ones that are dead by two years before the program ends. They may as well do the living ones too.
5) The US mint ALREADY has a presidnential medal program. In fact, recent suggestions for the designs were based from the exact designs used from these medals.
6) The Sacagawea dollar will still be "in circulation" while th eprogram is going on. This is strange since the Mint stopped issueing the Sacagawea dollar in 2002. It failed, yet they are bringing it back because of political pressure from state representatives along Lewis & Clark's trail.

 

But how can they succeed, like the quarters, when no one is ever going to see them? In order for them to succeed people are going to have to go to the banks and ASK for coins they don't know exist and be given coins that the banks are not going to order. If they DO ask and are told several times that they don't have any, they will stop asking and just stick with the dollar bills.