http://www.coinworld.com/news/mint-reveals-plans-to-ccac-on-2016-gold-coins-for-1916-issues.html Just read this article. As nice as it would be to see these designs on a modern coin it goes to show you, again, that the US Mint can't come up with any new ideas!!! The enthusiasm shown by the advisory committee is, in my opinion, misplaced! I wish one of them would have stood up & asked why the Mint has to resort to 100 year old designs? Why can't they come up with new classic designs? Has all the talent left the U.S. I'm not an artist so I'm sure it's easier said than done but at least try to think outside the box!!!
I'm not opposed to re-issues to celebrate their 100th anniversary, but I'd rather they not be gold - keeps too many collectors out on a price basis.
Don't worry! The Mint will play it into the ground with all metal varieties, just like they have with the Kennedy 50th coins. Anniversary coins will rapidly tax peoples budgets and continue to create the same stampede they did with the Kennedy coins. It's burning out interest very fast.
I'd rather see them made in circulation form, just for the year. I think it would spur new collectors like the state quarters did.
I'm not a fan of re-issues, but Mat has an interesting idea. Of course, they wouldn't be allowed to be made for commercial use for only one year, but I do like the idea.
I don't have a problem with that idea. Besides, it would be hilarious to watch the looks on the kids faces that can't even count change anymore anyways. Clad is fine.
It's actually easier to accomplish that one would think. However, the Mint is no longer concerned with turning out quality as it is with quantity. I suppose thats their business, after all, but if they're going to pay "artists" to produce new coinage designs, they might as well pay actual sculptors...people who have, in the distant past, designed coinage that is appreciated. The employees they retain now, and have for the past 60 years, are not sculptors by trade. Designing a digital, one dimensional cartoon on a computer does not qualify one as a sculptor in any fashion or time.
Okay, but I would rather see them made for circulation, even if clad. It would be so much better than what we have now. An option would be to redesign with an updated liberty obv. Unfortunately, that may never happen, as politics would be involved, which ironically is the very reason presidents never should have been there in the first place.
I have to wonder if the engravers at the mint that actually have talent feel insulted when committees mostly lacking people with artistic talent or vision bind their hands on new designs while recommending that the older designs, designed by sculptors with much more freedom, be reissued.
Personally I'm looking forward to this just for novelty's sake. I'd buy one of each if they are all in silver and then depending on price, I'd buy a gold mercury dime and maybe SLQ
I doubt they will end up in silver or clad at least as coinage because it isn't likely congress passes a law approving it in time. I'll probably purchase them in the gold set but I think the designs may look a tad disappointing relief wise. I imagine them looking like the gold eagles which even the proofs are really flat looking in design.
