New US Dollar Coins - What's the problem?

Where do you think the 20 cent piece was first tried? Where did we get the idea for the State Quarters? Who got rid of the $1 bill by making a $1 coin? Then did the same with the $2 bill? Then got rid of the Cent? We need to look to the Great White North and do what they do, eh?

 

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D'you see NGC is slabbing those 50 year anniversary Big Mac coins?

 

Only if being smart is more important than being obstinate, our national obsession. “We’re ‘Murricans. We don’t WANT to be smart!”

 

Socialists - 1; Semi-socialists - 0

 

https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2018/08/ccac-rejects-american-innovation-dollar-designs.html

Pathetic..............Is this what we have amounted to? I give up........

 

You have me quite confused. If you collect the golden dollars, why are you so against a new series to collect?

 

I'm not, but this one is not well thought out, and is under pressure to rush.

 

How are you going to differentiate between the usual dreck and a rush job?

 

Rushing GUARANTEES dreck. Without a rush job, creativity has half a shot.

 

Maybe just the 1st year designs will suck.

 

Because there's no time for the usual citizens beauty contest and then the governor picking the least / most stupid design of the set and then the mint engravers trying to turn Velveeta into aged Brie?

The good news is since they're not intended for circulation I don't have to look at them until the heirs of the Thousand or so suckers still left on the mint's "I'll buy anything list" kick...

 

I believe there's only 1 coin for 2018, IF they decide to mint it. 2019 is when the multi-designs per year start.

 

Yes, correct. Only the one with the G. Washington signature comes out in 2018 (and will be missing from the mint set). But the four states doing 2019 have a VERY truncated schedule, because the first proof sets of 2019 are NOT so far into the future. My state is one of them, and we don't exactly ooze aesthetic taste from our Capitol walls. Not modern, at least. The building is cool.

By the way, Secretary "Munchkin" (I love doing that.) has already opted TO do the 2018 coin.

 

Americans have started using the McDonald's "Big Mac" tokens as one dollar coins.

 

If they don't like any of the designs can they change their mind and skip the 2018 issue? I don't have much confidence they won't pick SOMETHING, but I can hold out hope....

 

I would say yes they can. Until the Secretary picks the design, the mint won't make anything. So if they can't come up with the design they like, unless the Secretary overrules them and picks one, there won't be a 2018 coin. The question now becomes will the Secretary overrule them?

 

Yes, I do believe he will do exactly that. He will probably chastise the CCAC for its elitism, or some such, and pick one of the designs they rejected. The CCAC's role is advisory, not mandatory, as is the that of the Fine Arts Commission.

 

For the most part I don't see us everyday collectors getting much excited over a non-circulating dollar coin. If they want to generate interest they need to make the effort to determine what would make a circulating dollar coin successful. And there may just not be a correct answer to that.

 

I'm assuming collectors will have 2018 options from the Mint pretty identical to the 1999 Susie B. An uncirculated version in pliofilm and a proof in a plastic box and capsule. It would be better to do a 2-coin set of one each, but that's not what I THINK will happen.