I didn't see a "bowing deeply" smiley, but fortunately Unicode has thought of everything. (Edit: unfortunately, the "person bowing deeply" Unicode doesn't seem to display on this Windows machine. ) ("penny-al" is amazing.)
Definitely not. Nothing is more boring than Roosevelt dimes. Of course with changes you risk abominations like the new Jefferson, but with change you also get some great ones like the life of Lincoln series, or the westward journey nickels. Overall variety is better than no variety and the mint is still light years behind the variety that other mints of the world offer
You're preaching to the choir ! https://www.cointalk.com/threads/time-for-a-change-in-our-change.170/ That, and its success, that taught me a huge lesson - be very, very careful what you wish for
Agreed! I got everything "National Park" related to include the 5 oz from 2015 onward + the gold plated, S-minted and W-minted. Its more of a chore now - thankfully it ends next year, though the 5oz silvers are a good way to buy silver, and they do seem to increase in value. The sale price has skyrocketed $60-$70 with the silver price spike.
Sounds like the majority want the mint to issue nickels, dimes and quarters for circulation only. No bullion? I don't think there is anything that they could do that would make long term sophisticated collectors happy! Let's face it, they have these programs to bring new collectors into the hobby and to satisfy the collectors who think a 2020 Salt River Quarter has a place in his/her collection just like a 1909 VDB cent, just collect for the joy in it.
I kind of feel like 250 (quarter-millennium) is a bigger deal than 200 or 300. Maybe I'm just sore because twenty-cent and $3 pieces are generally out of my price range.
Seems like they’re going with quantity over quality. I realize we need to create more interest in numismatics, however I don’t think this is the answer.
How about the founding fathers on the obverse, with the Constitution on the reverse alternated with Amendments and Bill of Rights....
Any interest in throwbacks? Older designs on current clad circulating coinage? I'd rather look forward to reissues of mercury dimes, buffalo nickels, liberty anything than anything state, monument, park, sport, etc related. Of course I don't get to decide, but I can dream.
Re: The halfs - If there was no interest they would stop producing them. If I'm not wrong, I believe that most of the early half commemoratives were sold at a premium and never put into circulation. And now they have become an interesting part of the hobby. (Although, who needs a coin with PT Barnum on it?) Not saying that will happen with the modern Kennedys, but that idea if they don't go into circulation they should not be produced would have resulted in no York, Maine halfs, etc.
Less than 0 and would rather they do nothing than do that. Throwbacks cheapen the originals and show a complete lack of imagination. There are plenty of people on the planet that can design new beautiful coins
Thanks! Don't feel bad about Unicode. I found myself rather disappointed recently that not only is there no medieval 4 defined, but none of the writing systems represented have anything that looks like it, which I found surprising, as it's a rather simple character.
Redesigned half dollar? It's a dinosaur. It has no function and hasn't for almost 50 years. Get rid of it. I mean if you want to issue a commemorative 50 cent piece once in a while, whatever. But the half dollar is pointless.
Perhaps it would kindle more interest in the originals, you never know. If only the mint had some of those folks than can design beautiful coins. Not a single state quarter is something I would call a beautiful coin.
Remind me why they stopped minting the classic commemorative halfs in 1954? From NGC's website... Congress often used the commemoratives to raise money for projects related to the historical event, such as building a memorial. By the 1920s, however, commemoratives were being issued for seemingly unimportant events and struck for multiple years at several mints to boost sales. With the plethora of commemoratives issued in the 1920s, Congress noted in 1925 that many of these “commemorate events of local and not national interest.” The Oregon Trail Memorial half, for example, was struck from 1926 to 1939 at the Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco Mints. This may have been the last straw; on February 27, 1939 Congress prohibited further commemoratives from being issued, although there were a few exceptions. The Classic Commemorative series officially came to a close with the Washington/Carver half dollar, struck from 1951-1954 to “oppose the spread of communism among Negroes in the interest of national defense.”