The Politics of Coinage

This is a long read but well worth it. This article highlights the struggles and the politics involved to get new coins minted. It was written in 1989 so some things may have changed though I highly doubt it. I'm retired U.S. Navy and know how slow change is in government. Just thought it was interesting and wanted to share.


edited - sorry, I know you went to a lot of work to post that. But it violates copyright law

 

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Leeg, if the article is on the net you can post a link to it.

 

I'm done here.

Enjoy

 

I was thinking I might have liked to read that. Do you not have a link?

 

Would love to read it, If they would only let me

 

Guess that many of us would like to read the article that you posted here. Doug has an excellent point however - if you post copyrighted material here, the lawyers of the copyright owner may surprise you (and possibly Coin Talk too, don't know) with a bill or worse.

In general you have two options: Either contact the author or publishing house, and ask whether it is OK to put part of the text here (in such a case I would add something like "posted with the consent of XY"), or post short quotes from the text and provide info such as author and title, or the ISBN. Then we can start searching the web, and if the text is available online, even better.

Christian

 

search the title of the OPs thread in Google and click the 'cached' link, it's still out there

 

Thanks for the clue Krispy, turns out I already have a copy of it. "The Politics of Coinage as Illustrated by Recent Commemorative Issues" from the 1989 Coinage of the Americas Conference "America's Gold Coinage" published by the ANS.

It's a good book with several interesting papers in it. In addition to the one listed above it contains:

A Study of Classic Half Eagles 1834-1838
A Nineteenth-Century Proposal
Metallic Panaceas: Gold Bugs, Silver Crusaders and the Wizard of Oz
In Search of the IMperfect Coin: A Cautionary Tale
"An onerous and delicate task": Franklin Peale's Mission South 1837
Collecting United States Gold Coins: A Numismatic History
Reflections on the Gold Coinage of the Twentieth Century

It's available on Amazon or from the ANS for $15. A good price considering later COAC books went to $25, then $35, then $65, and the last one on the St Patricks Coinage is $125.

 

Thanks a bunch! And agreed, an interesting article. There may have been some changes in the theme and design selection process between then and today, but I suppose much of what he writes still applies ...

Christian