I just checked my pres dollars and noticed the date is on the rim. So you go to sell your complete album 10 years from now and the buyer has to take all the coins out to check if they are all P & D mints. Dumb
The rim markings weren't necessarily a surprise. They had been talked about for quite a while. Guess it will take soem ingenuity to show off the rim in an album
that is dumb! probaly years from now when the rims get worn, the mintmark will wear off too. when that happens the mintmark will be gone and everybody will be confused!
Just to note, you have to do the same thing with your typical blue whitman folders with the old silver coins and pre-65 nickels if you don't trust the source...
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Actually, back in the early 1800's when they put the edge lettering on some coins, usually the edge lettering was the last thing to get worn off by circulation. Things may be a bit different now with vending, automated counting, and slot machines which tend to be hard on coins, but on the other hand I don't expect the presidential dollars to circulate much either.
I agree, if you look at very worn cents from 1793 - 1795 the obv and rev are often almost gone, but usually the edge lettering is still clear. Well worn early halves show the same thing, the edge is about the last thing to go. Of course they didn't have all the vending machines that we have today. I still think the edge lettering will hold up better than some people think.
We will know the date because the Wahington Dollars will only be made in 2007. So the date can be worn and we will know its 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2007 1 George Washington 1789-1797 2 John Adams 1797-1801 3 Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 4 James Madison 1809-1817 2008 5 James Monroe 1817-1825 6 John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 7 Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 8 Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 2009 9 William Henry Harrison 1841 10 John Tyler 1841-1845 11 James K. Polk 1845-1849 12 Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 2010 13 Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 14 Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 15 James Buchanan 1857-1861 16 Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 2011 17 Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 18 Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 19 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 20 James A. Garfield 1881 2012 21 Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885 22 Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 23 Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 24 Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 2013 25 William McKinley 1897-1901 26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 27 William H. Taft 1909-1913 28 Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 2014 29 Warren Harding 1921-1923 30 Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 31 Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945 2015 33 Harry S Truman 1945-1953 34 Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 35 John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 36 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969 2016 37 Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974 38 Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977
