What if the U.S. Mint released a clad peace dollar in 1965, would it last till 1970 before the IKE dollar or would the IKE dollar never be made and peace dollars would last till today?
Anything is speculation of course. But the way the mint spits out tired designs at light speed.... I happen to think a regurgitated Peace design would be far more interesting than some of the pablum they been giving to us.
why so many "what if" speculatory questions ? and why would the large dollar coin exist today. Is the IKE still being produced or were those replaced ? Do you know why they went from silver coinage, to clad. And why they went from large to smaller dollar coins ?
What if I'd a good talking point, what if we had a golden peace dollar instead of the current golden dollars.
Given enough time the dollar will become the new penny, people will have no choice to spend them by then.
What would the mint have come out with for a dollar coin in 1971 if Ike had lived a few years longer? Likewise, how much longer would Mercury dimes and Franklin halves have been produced if Roosevelt and Kennedy had lived longer? "What if?" type questions like these keep peoples' imaginations alive.
"what if" Mars struck the Earth the other week and wiped out humanity. How would that affect coin collecting ? Things in the past are unchangeable history.
Very few people used silver dollar coins. Throughout history, this has been true. Either the coin represented too much value to be useful, or it was too cumbersome to be practical.
When Roosevelt died, they dumped the Merc which had only been in use 31 years, and put him on the dime. When Kennedy died they dumped the Franklin which had only been around 16 years and put him on the half. It's not a what if, it was a response to what actually happened.
Ike died in 69, NASA made it to the Moon in 1969, and Ike signed the legislation that created NASA. Made a nice tie in all the way around. Still if they had made a clad Peace dollar in 1965 it would not have circulated and as the design had been around since 1921 it would still have been ripe for replacing with ike when he died. The question is also if Ike had lived a few more or a few less years, would the reverse of his dollar have had the Apollo 11 mission patch reverse design?
