As I was showing someone a penny and the little man in the back walking into the Lincoln Memorial I thought of an idea. I thought with the recent release of the new Lincoln pennies this year that the US Mint should have their own "contest". They could release one penny, maybe the first 2010 penny with three men walking into the Memorial instead of one and they could give a prize to the lucky person who wins. Just thinking out loud, I know the US Mint wouldn't promote something like that but maybe someone like Daniel Carr could. What y'all think? Anyone else have any coin ideas?
I always thought the 'little man walking into the Lincoln Memorial' was the large seated statue of Lincoln that is right there in the Memorial. For the Mint to add people walking into the Memorial you are suggesting they make a new die / variety for one coin.....? I primarily wish the Mint would have better quality control and only send out clean, spotless coins. Additionally, that the Mint produce the coins they currently have products featured for on the website instead of suspending their production indefinitely. I doubt they could do anything more special for promotions than those release day kiosks at Union Station for instance.
Are yousaying only make 1 period? (as in one of a kind) that would be a prize in itself. but someone would probly leave it in a car and it would get stiky and tossed out.
You're right that could happen!! Well maybe they could make 200 yeah, that would make more sense and cents!!
They could do something like make a pure gold penny, well 200 as suggested, and randomly insert them into rolls. Could you imagine the frenzy in trying to locate one of the "special" cents. Then on the edge of the cent it could be numbered out of the production run. That would create some serious collecting. You could probably do the same with some pure silver 10 cent pieces, or platinum five cent pieces. All kinds of ideas that I think would be cool. Or drop them in random boxes of cereal like with the Sacagewa Dollar from 2000.
This just got me thinking. I'd like to see them mint maybe 50,000 or so 95% copper Lincoln business strikes and then mix them randomly with the regular zincs. That would be enough so you would have a decent chance of finding one. Plus,only collectors would know what to look for!!:thumb:
That'd be a great idea too, and certainly wouldnt cost a whole lot to do. Question is would minting that many of them really make them worth anything? I would think they'd be worth a little bit certainly.
I think the mint should produce a less than adequate amount for circulation, and then force collectors to buy them for 9x face value, plus shipping. Oh wait... they beat me to it!
I really think someone should bring up something like this to the US Mint. I think it would be cool to find a pure gold penny, platinum nickel, or pure gold dollar coin. There would be such a frenzy sweeping across the nation and it could really invigorate collecting coins again for the youngsters especially. It'd be like that episode of Green Acres when they were finding the real jewelry in boxes of Crickly Wickly's.
Green Acres!? I haven't seen that show in forever, man. But seriously, I'd just be happy if the mint was able to fix their quality control standards.
It would be a plus I agree for the mint to get their QA in order. And yes, I love watching re runs of green acres, it was a great show... Im only in my early 30s but they dont make shows like that anymore.
And it would just about guarantee a coin shortage as well as everyone who knew there was some rare new cent , nickel or whatever, but didn't know precisely what it was, would hoard every new coin they got just to make sure they didn't spend one of the rare ones. Saw it happen in 72, saw it again in 95. Heard about it from all over "theres some rare pennies out there. Not sure exactly what it is but I'm hanging on to all of them just in case." During the great silver melt in 1979 I saw lots of people bring in tons of 1964 nickels. Why well because they knew the other 1964 coins were good ones so they figured the 64 nickels must be good too. People think there is a chance they might be giving away something of value they hoard instead. That's why the mintages of the first two years of state quarters were so high. They were different and people thought they might be valuable some day. So they hoarded up huge quanities. Then as it finally soaked in that there were going to be multiple designs for a long time the hoarding slowed and mintages decreased greatly.
That would explain the large numbers of Conneticut and Delaware quarters I've been recieving in my change of late......
