Am I remembering correctly, that when they first started the Presidential Dollar Coin Series, one of the rules was that a president had to be dead for a decade in order to be featured on the coins? I wonder what the purpose of that rule was. Was it in order to separate the coins from current politics? The $1 Presidential Series was officially over, and yet Congress passed a law to add a coin that is identical to the rest of the series of President Bush senior after he had been dead for only a couple of years. So they didn't use that rule again. Does anyone know more about this?
Why did they used to have more artistic coins of Lady Liberty, Buffalo nickel, and all the many other non-president coins and now almost everything is presidents? It seems to me like the art of coin designs have been dwindling over the last decades.
Thanks, I missed this. Will look for a seller of the GHWB coin anon. I was under the impression, though, that there was a waiting period on coins for presidents who have passed recently.
Just in case any of you have not seen the latest US Mint Production Schedule ... My question is, how does one go about acquiring an S minted coin? Will they be making any? Will it be available in a Proof Set?
The 2020 Proof Set has already been issued. In the past in instances like this The Mint has issued the proof coin separately. I'm sure they aren't going to miss a chance to issue a proof coin at a premium! It may even be early next year.
A lot of skills and art forms that used to have a period of apprenticeship are being lost. There is hardly such a thing as an apprenticeship anymore, which is a pity. The closest things to apprenticeship nowadays is a kid dropping out of high school and getting himself hired out for super cheap to assist a private electrician or plumber or car mechanic or some other such independent contractor. Big companies won't take a kid to help out and learn like that because of the risk of being sued should something go wrong. Then the colleges have supposedly supervised internships for a few months for young adults who are in college to learn on the job for 5-6 months. IMO 5-6 months is hardly enough time to learn a profession, but nobody asked me. And the college book learning is meaningless on a practical level until after a period of learning in an apprenticeship. The way it's being done now is backwards. It all goes back to being sued. If companies didn't have to worry so much about being sued, then kids and young adults could learn skills better. And then, of course, there's all the cheap labor overseas. But that's another discussion altogether. Anyway, the point is that a lot of skills and art forms are not being passed down anymore from one generation to the next. And our coins is just one of many examples. It's a pity.
Interesting analysis. Thanks. And yes, it's a super pity. Coin-wise, I like the old ones much better than the presidential ones.
I also like the old ones better. I think one of the things they wanted to accomplish with the Presidential $1 coins was to create a "Series" and mirror the success of the State/ATB coins with both avid collectors and the general public "sometimes collectors". Obviously, that didn't work out as they wanted it to. There are no great minds currently at the U.S. Mint. If there were, we'd see a lot more interesting and exciting things like the "W" coin that was put into general circulation. That was a winner. The U.S. Mint needs more interesting things like that to keep the interest and to grow the interest. Which reminds me, I'm going to post a new thread with question I've had for a while now about the quarters program, which is - what comes next?
I started a new post about it here: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/at...he-atb-quarter-series-what-comes-next.365958/
Birds are boring because they're very similar looking on a coin. Compare different birds on coins - many are not very different looking on a single-color coin. If it's a State Mammal it can vary to be a horse, a beaver, an orca, a bear, a panther, a fox, a deer, etc.
So please go to my new thread and click "Like"! Thanks! https://www.cointalk.com/threads/at...he-atb-quarter-series-what-comes-next.365958/