2015 March of dime promo

This was in this week Coin World as one of design for March of Dimes commemorative. For next year there also about ten more design for committee to pick from . I guess this is the one coin world likes it's on cover of this week issue .

 

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Okay, pop quiz: any other examples of coin designs that include the image of a currently-circulating coin embedded within the design? Heck, an image of any coin?

I think the idea of a proof or uncirculated coin whose devices include a circulated coin image has just broken my brain.

 

Mintstage normality has the lowest mint.
Coin World had more design but phone wouldn't save the 12-15 images .
But C.C.C has to pick from the lot of designs.

 

I really like the 3rd coin with smaller dimes as the design. cool.

 

As do I !
I will get the other 12-15 designs an post them when on my phone.

 

Quite an interesting concept indeed. Of course there are lots of "coins on coins" around, but none from the US so far - and usually it's an older coin, not one that can be found in circulation at the time when the commem is issued. The "mother and child" side ... well, I tend to prefer somewhat abstract designs but realize that they may be more difficult to do.

Christian

 

Here the other design submitted

 

I'll pass thank you

 

What ever cranks your tank.

 

There were some nice designs among the rejected ones ... ah well. The slogan "Victory over Polio" however I find strange for two reasons. First, whether there has been such a "victory" depends on where one lives. The disease can be dealt with today, and does not occur in, say, North America and Western Europe any more, but there still are quite a few polio cases in the world. Also, the organization that the piece is about (March of Dimes) has a different focus today. Question is, what does the coin honor?

Christian

 

Money to US mint it my honor is my guess . Or 49/50 year and March of dimes & Roosevelt dime ???

 

I'll probably buy this, no matter the design. My Dad had a surgery paid for by The March of Dimes when he was a kid. Later in life, when he went to enlist in the Air Force for Vietnam, that surgery disqualified him from service. He might never have come back. I might never have been born. I'll always be grateful.

 

yup I collect Coins on coins. thread: http://www.cointalk.com/threads/top...mall-coins-as-the-design-on-the-coins.224141/

 

For the US, 2006 Franklin Tricentennial dollar (Continential Currency dollar), and the Old San Francisco Mint centennial coins (reverse of the Morgan dollar and the rev of the Liberty head half eagle.)

Last year there were 416 new cases in the world. So far this year, 77 cases. It's not a total victory yet, but close enough we can taste it. Of course the final eradication may have a setback. One of the countries that still has new polio cases is Afghanistan, where the CIA had spies infiltrating covered as vaccination workers. Now it is much harder to get people to cooperate with the vaccination program.

The fiftieth anniversary of the March of Dimes Organization. It doesn't matter that their primary goal has shifted, the organization is still fifty years old.

 

Yup condor your right . I wish they had given my shots when I was sent to Vietnam in 1968!
I was also sent to south America red cross gave us shots that time .
March of dimes was a better group back then but nothing stays the same over time folks in power screw things up.

(Image removed - Guess you are familiar with our rules regarding political statements ...)

 

Speaking of Beatles...is there a JOHN LENNON silver round?

 

I think there is 1 or 2 link: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trk...ennon&_nkw=John+lennon&_sacat=39487&_from=R40

 

Hmm, I have read about "1938" (for the organization), and "1976" (for the name that includes the term March of Dimes), so I am not sure whether this coin commemorates a "round" anniversary in 2015.

But I am still wondering about the motto - the activities have moved away from fighting polio (which makes sense), so why have it on the coins? Depicting FDR and/or Salk, OK, that explains why the organization was originally created ...

Christian

 

Your right about the anniversary. I didn't check the dates and just assumed (and you what they say about when you assume.) It doesn't seem to match up as an anniversary date for the March of Dimes (77th for the founding, 58th for their switch of focus from polio to birth defects.). It does match the 60th anniversary of the Salk Vaccine (Licensed for distribution April 1955). But a 60th Anniversary?

 

It must be commemorating 60 years since the polio vaccine trial announcement (1955).