Presidential dollars are ugly and I hate them <3

Teddy wants one!

 

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I like them enough to get one of these!

 

I don't know what it is about us, Paul, but I like them as well.

I have long said that golden-colored pristine examples may be a premium coin in 50 years much like red colored Indian Head Cents.

 

You mean like a ten dollar gold piece? (27 mm. only 2.7 mm larger) Yeah nobody would like them.

 

They look like every other modern mint product. CNC cartoon, lifeless, unsculpted, uninspired.......

Most every hobo nickel I see is more detailed and more interesting. We should let those guys design our coins.

 

Well, they are better than the Susan B Anthonys. Although the Sacagawaeas are kind of nice. The problem is, they are unnecessary. If they eliminate the dollar bill, then they would serve a purpose. Is there really a point when the mint produces a product that only collectors want? But the general public refuses to use them?
At least they stopped making them. They should stop making halves too.
How much coinage do we actually need? I am sure we have much more than we need to function.

 

When all financial transactions are carried out in cyberspace, those who control it will control us. Hard currency (real silver, gold and even copper) was supposed to protect us from being controlled by outsiders. It did it's job well for 200 years (1776-1982). But now we're at the mercy of vulnerable electronics which could send us back to the dark ages in a day.

Welcome to the age of Big Brother. We live in an age of costume coinage made strictly for appearances.

 

Cartoonish is the level of artistry these days. You chose a perfect word.

 

Hard to say where cyber finances will take us, but there is no going back on it. Metals as a medium of exchange were never suppose to "protect us". No one involved with production and trade in precious metals has had such a lofty ideal. Precious metals simply evolved as a verifiable, transportable, durable medium of exchange. Precious metals these days are more and more commodities like oil, wheat, iron, diamonds, etc. Unless there is a significant economic collapse, greater than the great depression, precious metals are not coming back as a medium of exchange.

As far as protection goes, countries with the biggest ore reserves and the infrastructure to mine and process them can have the biggest influence on the precious metals markets. For gold that's Australia, Russia, South Africa, in that order; then Indonesia and the U.S. with equal amounts. For silver, it's Peru, Australia, Poland, Chile, China, Mexico and the U.S. in that order (statistica.com). So, those who believe in a coming economic collapse had best head down-under.

Cal

 

I'm also really not a big fan of worshipping predidents on these coins. We need to return to the 1920s era of coinage

 

To Honor is expected, to Worship is idolatry. But coins are not a good showcase for either. I'll take Ms. Bingham's image as Lady Liberty every day of the week.

ps Just look up and left to see what I'm talking about.

 

Me I like Dolley, now that's a bust dollar.

 

Definitely one of the better moderns...

 

designed by Tiffany and Company

 

Get dead presidents off our money,put symbols of liberty and the rest of our history back on. We collect old coins because they have a more enduring appeal. Many were not popular in their time, yet few had to put up with idolizing the presidents as if they were Caesar.

 

Another thing is, is that all of the changes coming up with our paper money, none of them actually involve the founding of this country or any symbol of Liberty. It will be all civil rights. Don't get me wrong, civil rights are good but they shouldn't be on our money. Keep politics out of it

 

This one spoke to me:


United States Millard Fillmore Dollar 2010 NGC

 

I WAS AT THE US MINT IN Philadelphia AND SAW THIS PIECE OF .... and thought it needed a home.

 

Even money is a commodity. But precious metals offer a tangible store of value which is historically more stable than many other forms of value accumulation which can disappear overnight.

But buying at ten times spot is not investing to conserve value. It is spending to placate one's desire. I do not believe in investing in coins. I placate my desires by collecting, much as I do with art. It only has value in good times when others have a surplus and the same desire.