Vice-Presidents of America on coins.

May I be dead by the day coins and currency are no longer acceptable means of trade.

 

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I would also like to see more of the Lady Liberty & Lady Mercury coins. Presidents picture belong on walls not coins. RC out

 

I agree. I would love to see a new coin based on the "Mercury" (actually winged Liberty) design. It's a beautiful coin but very small. Silver or gold bullion in this design would be stunning.

 

The Ladies Liberty, Peace, Justice, Hope, and Love should all grace our coinage. And then it would truly be a fine coinage.

 

WooHoo!! 3 more and I think we can call it a movement. The revolution has begun.

 

would love to see the mercury dime and the standing liberty quarter in a one ounce gold or silver. truly awesome I would imagine

 

There are so many obscure Vice Presidents that I think such a series might be shunned by the public and not many of these coins would saved in large quantities. Henry Wilson, Garret Hobart, James Sherman and George Dallas are not names that roll off most people's tongues. I'm not sure how that would play out for collectors or investors - would the lack of interest in such a series makes some of these rarities? We'll never know.

 

not to hijack a thread or anything.. but isn't Mercury on the Mercury dime a man?


hmm.. ok.. Red Book says it's a her... and all these years, and I thought Mercury was god, not a goddess

 

As I look at the coins offered by the premiere auction houses, obscurity of the subject and physical unattractiveness do not seem to be obstacles to coins becomoing extremely valuable. Of course, that could be BECAUSE they aren't saved in large quantities.

 

Its actually called a "Winged Liberty Head Dime". "Mercury Dime" was stuck on it by the public.

 

Educational tool.

Ernie11,a series of U.S. coins depicting the Vice-Presidents of America would not only be a way of honouring them,irrespective of which political party they came from,but it would also serve as an educational tool.I know that George H.W. Bush was Ronald Reagan's Vice-President,Lyndon Johnson was John F. Kennedy's Vice-President,& that Al Gore was Bill Clinton's Vice-President.I may be a New Zealander who was very good at History at school,especially in relation to the British Commonwealth,but I have taught myself a bit about U.S. history to a certain degree.

I know of one British Commonwealth country that has issued coins to commemorate the inauguration of a President of America.That is the Hutt River Province Principality,who issued coins in 1981 (President Reagan's inauguration) & 1993 (Bill Clinton's inauguration).

Aidan

 

The Mint offerered the Gold 1 oz Buffalo so why not do the same for the Mercury. I know I would stand in line to buy one or maybe 2 of them..

 

Why Vice presidents? Why not secretaries of Agriculture? or choice supreme court justices?

 

America has had a Vice-President on a banknote - Thomas Hendricks,who appeared on the $10 note of 1886.Because of the shape of the frame that depicts the Vice-President's portrait inside it,the note is called a 'Tombstone Note'.

Aidan.

 

vice presidents

oh my god. then we have to have vice president's wife on another gold coin series. maybe i will put mine on a coin too. custom made of course. few and rare.

 

Maybe they could put some ASTRO-NUTS on the coins since they have been in the news of late LOL

only kidding

 

Speaker of the house series? lol

 

That's taking this debate too far.Everyone should know that the Vice-President of America is an office with a lot of power,as he is automatically the Chairman of the U.S. Senate as of right.That is why I believe that some Americans would be in favour of a Vice-Presidential coin series as a companion issue to both the Presidential & First Ladies issues.

Aidan.

 

For any who dont know tham all off by heart here is a list with dates served & Home States

Vice Presidents

1. John Adams 1789–1797 Massachusetts
2. Thomas Jefferson 1797–1801 Virginia
3. Aaron Burr 1801–1805 New Jersey
4. George Clinton ( 1805–1812 New York VP to 2 Presidents Jefferson & Madison
5. Elbridge Gerry 1813–1814 Massachusetts
6. Daniel D. Tompkins 1817–1825 New York
7. John C. Calhoun4 1825–1832 South Carolina VP to 2 Presidents J. Q. Adams & Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren 1833–1837 New York
9. Richard M. Johnson 1837–1841 Kentucky
10. John Tyler 1841 Virginia
11. George M. Dallas 1845–1849 Pennsylvania
12. Millard Fillmore 1849–1850 New York
13. William R. King 1853 North Carolina
14. John C. Breckinridge 1857–1861 Kentucky
15. Hannibal Hamlin) 1861–1865 Maine
16. Andrew Johnson 1865 North Carolina
17. Schuyler Colfax 1869–1873 New York
18. Henry Wilson 1873–1875 New Hampshire
19. William A. Wheele) 1877–1881 New York
20. Chester A. Arthur 1881 Vermont
21. Thomas A. Hendricks 1885 Ohio
22. Levi P. Morton 1889–1893 Vermont
23. Adlai E. Stevenson ) 1893–1897 Kentucky
24. Garrett A. Hobart 1897–1899 New Jersey
25. Theodore Roosevelt 1901 New York
26. Charles W. Fairbanks 1905–1909 Ohio
27. James S. Sherman 1909–1912 New York
28. Thomas R. Marshall 1913–1921 Indiana
29. Calvin Coolidge 1921–1923 Vermont
30. Charles G. Dawes 1925–1929 Ohio
31. Charles Curtis 1929–1933 Kansas
32. John N. Garner 1933–1941 Texas
33. Henry A. Wallace) 1941–1945 Iowa
34. Harry S. Truman 1945 Missouri
35. Alben W. Barkley) 1949–1953 Kentucky
36. Richard M. Nixon 1953-1961 California
37. Lyndon B. Johnson 1961–1963 Texas
38. Hubert H. Humphrey 1965–1969 South Dakota
39. Spiro T. Agnew 1969–1973 Maryland
40. Gerald R. Ford 1973–1974 Nebraska
41. Nelson A. Rockefeller 1974–1977 Maine
42. Walter F. Mondale 1977–1981 Minnesota
43. George Bush 1981–1989 Massachusetts
44. J. Danforth Quayle 1989–1993 Indiana
45. Albert A. Gore, Jr 1993–2001 Washington, D.C.
46. Richard B. Cheney 2001– Nebraska


De Orc

 

Steve,it is interesting that America has had more Vice-Presidents than Presidents,considering that some of them ended up becoming President.I think President George W. Bush is the 43rd President of America.Can anyone please confirm this?

Aidan.