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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1943822, member: 4626"]Lol... but why? I can understand that some people like things I do not, and can at least see why certain things appeal to others even when they do not appeal to me, but this... this just bores me, honestly. They could have done so much more to make a big deal out of this and to me it seems they just got lazy. If they expect me to shell out my hard earned money for the sake of a coin that commemorates another coin, they could at least be bothered to do something more interesting than take the same coin, slap another date on it, make it out of gold, silver, reverse proof, etc. It's no wonder so many people tend to ignore modern U.S. coins when they pull this kind of laziness. Why spend money on this when there's so many more interesting things out there?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Right after Lincoln cents, the thing I got interested in collecting was JFK halves. I have what I call a "complete set" (I don't count minor varieties, proofs, silver proofs, etc.). I would have loved for this to be something interesting... but this is just too disappointing for me to want to add to my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's hoping they do something special in 2017 (which will be the 100th anniversary of JFK's birth). One can only hope they put more effort into it than this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1943822, member: 4626"]Lol... but why? I can understand that some people like things I do not, and can at least see why certain things appeal to others even when they do not appeal to me, but this... this just bores me, honestly. They could have done so much more to make a big deal out of this and to me it seems they just got lazy. If they expect me to shell out my hard earned money for the sake of a coin that commemorates another coin, they could at least be bothered to do something more interesting than take the same coin, slap another date on it, make it out of gold, silver, reverse proof, etc. It's no wonder so many people tend to ignore modern U.S. coins when they pull this kind of laziness. Why spend money on this when there's so many more interesting things out there? Right after Lincoln cents, the thing I got interested in collecting was JFK halves. I have what I call a "complete set" (I don't count minor varieties, proofs, silver proofs, etc.). I would have loved for this to be something interesting... but this is just too disappointing for me to want to add to my collection. Here's hoping they do something special in 2017 (which will be the 100th anniversary of JFK's birth). One can only hope they put more effort into it than this.[/QUOTE]
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