40 civil rights quarters proposed

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A bill recently introduced by Rep. Melvin Watt [D-NC] proposes a 40-coin, eight-year series of circulating quarters to commemorate and be emblematic of "prominent civil rights leaders and important events that have advanced civil rights in America


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http://uscoins.blogspot.com/2008/09/civil-rights-quarter-series-proposed-in.html

 

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So will they omit the civil right events for the Gay/Lesbian Community?

 

i dont know about that but i am going to stop buying quarters for next 30 years that they have plans for as one my friend puts it "its rediculous" trust me it is ridiculous

 

It sounds to me like the Washington Quarter has become the platform for every lame coin design idea thats come along and denied and filed away in the basement of the Mint.

Mint employee - "Mr. Moy, what do you want us to do with all of those old rejected coin designs in the basement file cabinet, throw them away?

Mr.Moy - "Heck no!! Are you crazy! There's another new Quarter Program coming up soon. We'll use them for that."

What a joke!!

 

Someone has gone off the deep end. It really makes me want to stick with older coins, a person could go nuts trying to keep up with all the new ones.

 

if they start those 8oz silver coins i will quit the modern comems for good. they wont be worth squat for centuries to come

 

if you mint them, they will come.

and collect them.

as for me, I stopped saving the States quarters.

But, I feel that anyone who wants them have the right to them.

If you don't like them, don't save them.

 

As things stand now, I buy only the Uncirculated Mint Set and the Silver Proof Set. So whatever is in the sets is what I will get. I will concentrate on finishing out my Morgan Dollar collection, maybe a few Walkers to fill in a few empty spaces.

 

As I've said before, coins seem to be going the way of stamps, where they issue scores of commeratives for everything under the sun - Elvis, Disney characters, classic cars, dogs, flowers, etc.

One thing done on a very limited basis with stamps that should work well with coins is re-issuing an older design. Imagine a 2010 Barber dime, or Draped Bust Half, or Standing Liberty Quarter, or...? Maybe a 2-5 year run for each design.

 

If it weren't for those pesky state quarters, coin collecting would be a lot less "hot" than it has been in the recent past.

I, for one, have enjoyed the ride. If this is what the ticket costs, so be it.

 

I know this isn't a government issue but if ALL of these proposals get through it soon may be... John http://cgi.ebay.com/MAD-Alfred-E-Ne...VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

 

Wait a sec, didn't the house already pass the national parks bill? Also, Canada has developed a color etching process and they have all sorts of weird quarters like commemoratives for hockey teams. The perfidious french have just issued €1.5 coin for the 70th anniversary of the comic book character "spirou."

 

More quarter coins! Man this should be interesting

 

I want to propose a quarter series commemorating the week of the Six Day War. How about a coin series honoring the '69 Mets? What about a 10-year program featuring the week that Kevin Costner had his appendix removed while filming Open Range?

I'm not trying to belittle the civil rights struggle, but where will it end? Are we only going to mint coins with a theme? Why can't we just go back to a classic circulating design and change the design once every ten years?

 

Mad Magazine did a spoof of the commemoratives from all over the world, with a commemoration of every living American series many years ago.

 

The US mint is flooding the coin market with all of these special issues. Though the statehood quarter program has introduced a ton of new collectors to the hobby, continuing with these ridiculous series will cause collectors to have to choose which series to follow. They would be canibolizing on their own sales!!

 

Hardee harhar.

Well, for one thing, the US had nothing to do about it. I think Israel did have a coin to commemorate the six day war.

A circulating Franklin Half would have been a good idea for 300th anniversery of his birth. Where's the LBJ coin?

 

They might as well do one for that war. They did those ridiculous Olympic commemoratives for so many years. Since we're going for world related events, why not?

 

Some people propose things for the sole reason of gaining political capital from their constituents, with no hope (or even intent) of the proposal being enacted.

 

I see a freaking Tsunami of circulating commemoratives, states quarters, parks quarters, "civil rights" quarters, nickels, cents, superdimes, presidential dollars, etc. crushing the bourse and washing away real collectors under glut of worthless crap minted in the hundreds of millions and pimped by talking heads as the greatest ever slabbed and CAC'd at supergrades of 69 and 70 relegating our hobby to a sideshow. Plus the fact that circulating coinage is not the place for politics, like deciding what constitutes a great civil rights moment, leader. I'd expound on this but the thread would probably end up in the politics forum, so until it happens I'll remain mum.