Poll: Time to change the designs of all modern series?

I love changes but those in control don't care about it as much as many of us here. It's just not important to them.
Those that use albums for sets might have a tough time with it but I would like for the new and the old design to both be used the year it changes.

 

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I voted to change all modern designs, but to what? coins just don't circulate much, anymore, and most Americans don't even care about numismatics. We should find ways to inspire people love our hobby.

 

If Americans have lost interest in coins it's because of the designs. I haven't lost any interest but I have zero interest in the new issues.

 

Me, too.

 

Well, maybe it's up to those who care (us collectors) about coin designs to push the issue to change the designs. Most Americans, as well as CT members, can't even be bothered to vote, so those who take interest, get what they want.

The first point to this thread is to change the designs, regardless of what they're changed to, so that the mint doesn't undermine all the key dates they just sold us in all the special sets.

 

Or maybe because coins are not actually used any more. (With the possible exception of the quarter.) You get them back in change, put them away in a jar maybe - or do not even get any because you pay with a card or phone. As a collector I would not complain about a design makeover but I don't think that would change most people's attitudes when it comes to coinage.

Christian

 

I must say, though, I do really LOVE the state quarters series! It is near, or at the top of my favorites, and has also been a great starting point for what we are discussing here, now.

 

I don't want any person who has ever lived, much less "served", placed a coin or a note.

 

While several of the current designs are as stale as a bag of pretzels that was opened last year, at least the mint hasn't sold its dignity and put a cartoon character or something else on a coin. Granted this is more geared toward non-circulating coins, but I won't hate on the mint TOO much until they do that!

 

It won't happen here, either. The law creating the series excludes sitting Presidents, living former Presidents, and even former Presidents dead less than two years at the would-be issue date. Jimmy Carter may be gravely ill, but he has already lived too long to get a coin under the present law. We'll get LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and that will be the end.

 

Actually, I heard Reagan will not be included, either, because there would be a gap in the series without Carter.

 

What denominational coin hasn't gone through a design change since 1946? Sure there may have been an extra flicker added to the flame or an extra acorn but no extensive change to the lowly dime. If the present nickel is any prelude to future obverse changes then no thank you.

 

Many people made this assumption, but there is no such provision in the authorizing law. A careful reading, in fact, reveals that the program can only end "when each President has been so honored, subject to paragraph (2)(E)," which is the dead-at-least-two-years clause I mentioned. By law, there was no way to not do Reagan. The only question was whether Carter would die in time to get a coin first. He hasn't, and the Mint confirmed in February that Carter would be skipped, and Reagan would be coined, in 2016. Then the program will meet its terminal conditions. Carter and all the post-Reagan Presidents are locked out, unless a future Congress passes a new law to cover them.

 

Change is good.

I like a lot of it, that I can find with my metal detector

 

Thanks for the correction. I originally heard about it in Numismatic News about one year ago. I would personally be a lot more interested in this series if the mint included all the presidents, and in a more artistically appealing portrait.

 

I hope they do nothing at all, as anything new designers (politicians and activists) would come up with would be worse than what we currently have.

 

Hmmm..... You make a valid point.

 

How about letting all of the candidates advertise on coins? A Trump quarter with a border fence for example lol... Perhaps we could then limit their advertising in other media. That way they would have to focus their message on what would fit on a coin.