2022 Quarter

My hope is that we redesign a new quarter and use the design for decades to come. What I think will happen though is that they'll come up with some other commemorative that will be a few designs per year for years to come.

 

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I trust Carnac the Magnificent...

 

Winston The Queen has been done already.

 

Wha choo mean "done"? Have a little respect.

 

I got stuck into collecting the state quarters for the kids, One album done Mine Ha Ha, and the others will go to grandkids or spent by them.

 

This is EXACTLY where they seem to be going in their thinking.

 

If you want to risk turning your brain into the sort of mush that results in what I post here, by reading actual legislative language, the law relating to what is discussed in this thread can be found here (you have been warned):

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-110publ456/pdf/PLAW-110publ456.pdf

Godspeed dear intrepid reader, godspeed.

 

How about this...we will use Washington on the obverse and sell the reverse to a company to use as advertising. So...you know, the coin will have a "heads" and a "Coca-Cola" or something. Generate some revenue with our money.

 

A new design is long overdue. Not only for the Quarter Dollar, but for the Cent, Five Cents, Dime, and Half Dollar.

 

Yes, but, the chief reason we are sclerotic where we are is when that Pandora's box gets opened, even the numismatic community divides roughly equally between wanting to go "retro" and going "far out modern". With a lack of any consensus, the low-risk thing to do is "nothing".

 

Nothing is the easiest thing to get done.

 

After the negative reaction to the Shield reverse cent and the new Jeff obverse, I'm pretty sure the "legislative courage" tank is pretty dry.

 

The funny thing is... Most of the feedback I have heard on the Cent was positive.

The forward facing obverses are a bit creepy, and honestly, a TOTAL redesign is what people want. Not just one side.

 

By the way, if you have the "with proofs" version of the Dansco (#8114), the "Here's looking at YOU, kid" Jefferson nickel is now onto page 2, as of the 2017 proof.

 

I think that the dead president thing is overdone. Can we have allegories, please?

 

I even liked the two year obverse of the nickel. It proved that we are capable of creating good designs. Why the Mint decided that having the coins stare back at you is a good idea, I cannot even fathom.

 

Can we do something that would actually aid commerce and the hobby at the same time?

First, get rid of the $1, $2, $5, and $10 notes. Get rid of the cent and nickel. Bring back the $500 note.

These would be the new coins:
- small copper dime
- Cu/nickel quarter, roughly the size of our current dime.
- Cu/nickel half-dollar, more-or less in the size of our current nickel
- Bi-metallic dollar, quarter-sized
- $5 Sac/Prez manganese, half-dollar sized
- $10 a bit smaller than current Ikes, maybe issue in small quantities or as commems.

Require all-new "Liberty/Eagle" designs, preferably with a bit more relief than our current flat junk. Request the submission of designs with a huge award for the winner ($100,000+). Solicit designs from actual sculptors and artists. If necessary, do a rotating politician on ONE of the smaller issues.

Something like this would bring coins back into the realm of being relevant and would invigorate the hobby beyond anything the state quarter program ever accomplished. Would everyone like it? No. Did everyone like the Buff nickel, Merc dime, SLQ, or Walker when new? Nope, even though we drool all over them now.

 

You know that's good stuff, I know that's good stuff, but it has about as much hope of happening as your monitor bursting into flames in 4,3,2,1...

 

not likely to happen. I think we can do something about the cent. A clad half-dime would also work and bring costs under face.

 

Now THAT'S brilliant, seeing as how the vending machine business has already written off the nickel as anything but a "given back in change" denomination.