1969 IKE dollar failed design

sorry. clerical error on my part

 

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I agree about the accomplishment. Regardless of what was chosen as a patch, there are many historical designs I don't like, including this one for the reasons listed.

On the same note, personally, I hate presidential monuments. It is reminiscent of emperors and dictators. A simple life-size statue will do, not enormous buildings that literally do nothing but use up a lot of marble and take up good real estate.

 

what a.m. stations?

 

And that is also why the SBA dollar has an inner rim of 11-sides, not 13.

 

Around you? Probably WBEN-AM.

 

Until they stop printing dollar bills, the public will not use a dollar coin. They need to stop printing $1 bills, print more $2 bills, and issue a smaller-sized dollar coin that can be differentiated from the quarter, and does not contain manganese in it so it doesn't corrode so fast.

 

That was the only time in my life I saw my grizzled old oil man grandfather shed a tear.

 

You saying the eleven sides represent the Apollo 11 mission? That has to be one of the coolest coin facts I ever heard.

 

I like the obverse better, which uses the bust from the inaugural medal, and the layout of the Franklin half, but I prefer the Apollo 11 patch design used on the reverse issued on the Ike & SBA dollars.

 

Did you count them? There are 11 (eleven). Look before you leap.

 

No sir.... I was quoting your post.

 

And it said 11. Your reply said 13, so I thought you were trying to correct me.
Another one that is different is the Sacajawea dollars. They have 17 stars on the reverse, not 13, because that was how many states were in the Union when Lewis & Clark left Washington.

 

If the last few Presidents haven't broken us of this, I don't know what to tell you.

 

Well, it did until I saw I was typing faster than I was thinking. My apologies. Not at all trying to correct. But is that what you meant? The eleven inner sides represented the Apollo 11 mission?

 

First time I read that, but I believe it. So on the obverse, was that SBA's score on the "ugly meter"?

Remember, by New Year's Day 1971, we had seen pretty much ONLY Apollo 11. Apollo 12 "fritzed" the TV camera, and 13 almost killed three guys. Apollo 14 only launched January 31, 1971.

 

Ahh. I thought you meant the late night talkers who are even weirder

 

Yes, they are that.

 

Yep. I ask how many sides the inner rim has on a SBA $, and people always answer 12 or 13. Some will even say that thee coin has 12 or 13 sides.