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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blissskr, post: 1380831, member: 34882&quot;]It would be nice if the U.S. mint got the right idea and actually produced a specially designed coin for each birth year like we see some other countries doing i.e. [ATTACH]163805.vB[/ATTACH]. Simply putting together some common coins in &#039;generic&#039; birth year packaging is moronic, if someone wanted these coins for a birth year set they could just buy a mint set for the year. But as usual the U.S. mint is behind the times and it seems they aren&#039;t even capable of minting beautiful coins any longer without recycling past designs for the most part. Having children I enjoy the thought of buying a special coin type gift for them but when other countries offer a choice of a truly nice set some of them being minted from a precious metal (I.E. my wife and I purchased UK Britannia gold coins for our children&#039;s birth years) I prefer that to common every day U.S. coins in cheap packaging that most likely will never be anything more than a novelty. If for instance the U.S. mint produced something similar to the Canadian coin above available in silver as above and perhaps gold and proof versions also maybe they&#039;d peak some real interest versus just trying to pass off the same old coins in &#039;special packaging&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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