Mint Sets are just out of control

But when the ATB are done in 2021 or so along with the Presidential dollars in 2016, it will return back to sane levels unless they continue with specialty coins.

 

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Remember, they have the option to do a second round of "national parks" so the quarters could extend through 2032. I don't know what they will do about the President dollar coin ending. Vice presidents to go along with your President dollars? That series could go even longer as there are more Vice Presidents than there are Presidents.

 

BITE YOUR TONGUE!

I expect that by the time the Presidential Dollar programs comes to full completion, either the Dollar Bill will be done away with and the Native American Coin will be used or the Dollar Bill will continue and the dollar coins will simply be stopped.

 

In 2009, the Satin Finish coins comprised 36 coins, and a full Business Strike and Satin set is a whopping 72 coins. Add in the 18 proofs (clad) plus the extra 8 silver proofs and you have a massive year set of 98 coins! Can you believe that? 98 bloody coins for a full year proof, business, and satin set! Madness at its extreme!

 

I was offered $1 for the regular proof sets no matter what date (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar). This just proves that the mint is producing to many of "rare" modern day coins and they are just "common" now...

 

awww golly gee. Just pick up the unc and proof silver Am Eagle and call it 100 even. Did we mention commemoratives?
and I always get 2 each so my kids will get even share some day.
Makes my head swim and wallet thin.

 

Yeah but without looking it up, can you name the one guy who became VP and then President without actually ever facing an election for either spot in office?

 

Gerald Ford. Elected to the Vice Presidency by the Senate upon the resignation of Spiro Agnew. Succeeded Richard Nixon upon his resignation of the Presidency.

 

Hey, I was challenging Conder101..

 

Sorry. Didn't notice that.

How may here witnessed Nixon's resignation? I watched it live on TV.

 

I was too busy putting 18 hour days in at work..........

 

Gerald Ford. We were there. BTW - your posting in a thread I started. I'm glad you find it interesting, but i just wanted to point it out.

 

Kind of hard not to, since you start every thread here at CT.

Plus, I didn't originally reply to the OP, I found what others said interesting, particularly condor101's slight sarcasm I quoted. You linked to another site, which wasn't anything new or actually that interesting.

 

(If I dood it I get a whippin.........I dood it.)

But one of the selling points they used for the state quarters, the President dollars, and the ATB quarters was the teaching potential of the coins. Teachers could use the quarters to "Learn all fifty states in the order that they joined the Union"!!! Of course it took ten years and by the time little Johnny learned the last state for the series he started in elementary school he was ready to graduate from high school. And of course from going through our change we now find that the last President was Abraham Lincoln. ("He must have been the last, I haven't seen anything later than him on dollar coins from the bank.") But that's all beside the point, we need these coins for TEACHING! So we NEED those VP dollars. After all if you think it is bad that kids don't know all the Presidents, how many of the VP's do they know?

And yes I knew the Gerald Ford answer. I'm old enough I lived through the era. Didn't see much of it because I was still in elementary school, but I knew about it. Does bring to mind an interesting question I don't know. How many other VP's gained the office by appointment? I know Ford was appointed after Agnew resigned, and Rockefeller was appointed after Ford moved to the Presidency, but I don't know if any of the other VP's that ascended to the Presidency after the death of the President appointed a new VP to fill the vacancy Or if any VP's died in office and had replacements appointed. Or did the office remain vacant until the next election?

SEE those questions could be answered by a Vice President of the United States circulating (insert denomination here) coin!

 

I once learned from a great history teacher that the VP serves one purpose and literally does nothing significant while in office, they're only purpose is to be on standby in case the President becomes incompetent and or dies to take over. That's it, so I vote we don't make any VP dollar coins.

But he was wrong, the VP does have one important role, he is the tie breaker if the Senate comes to a 50-50 tie in a yay or nay vote. That's about all we need the VP for anyways. If you run for President, you should always pick a VP that is worse than you, it lessens your chances of getting assassinated because it makes anyone considering it think twice of who they're about to put in charge.

 

This was my point exactly.
Then, to my surprise, the mint offered & I purchased the Lincoln Chronicles set and and and and ...

 

The rise of circulation strike S-mintmarked quarters may change that.

 

The Chinese will put Nixon on their new Silver Dollar

 

They should. He was the guy that re-opened the arcade over there........

 

And then? Along came Jones.......

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