2019 Innovation Dollar designs

It was called the seven sisters because there are seven very bright stars in the cluster, but there are actually dozens (if not hundreds) of stars. It used to be a test of vision in ancient greece to see how many stars you could see in the cluster.

 

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The Pleiades is in the form of a small dipper. Easily seen on winter nights. (In the Northern hemisphere.)
They are very clearly blue to the naked eye. But binoculars make this a very nice cluster to observe.

 

A very dubious connection between Pleiades (associated closely with the number 7) + Cherokee origin story (associated closely with the number 7) and the choice of 11 stars on the coin. 11 makes absolutely no sense so far.

 

13 original colonies and Delaware and Rhode Island have been reduced to dwarf state status.

 

My reaction to those designs:

 

Is it really that difficult to have nice looking coins which are also works of art, instead of cartoons and caricatures?

 

I just spent a couple minutes looking at the designs. I want my couple minuntes back.

 

Another update on the PA designs. These are almost cartoon-like. They should be ashamed!!!

http://news.coinupdate.com/2019-american-innovation-1-coin-designs-pennsylvania/

 

I'm at the point where

• too busy - most of these will look nice on 5 oz silver pucks and garbage on a circulating low-relief coin
• Poor choices (If you have to Google the words on the coin to figure out what it represents)
• Really bad layout - Pennsylvania Polio Vaccine ... does that mean I got gypped in NY? (PA-R-20)
• Anne Jump Cannon is OK, she died in 1941
• the NOR separates two clauses
  • Neither the bust of any person
  • The portrait of any living person
• Why does the motion picture camera in NJ11 have Egyptian feet?

 

Modern US coins have turned into postage stamps.
I'm surprised they're not issued "pre-circulated".

 

Kill me.......I like 'em.

 

Senility is inevitable lol

 

Idaho - the TV. Philo T. Farnsworth was born in Idaho and got the idea at 14 looking at plowed fields.

 

We're going to get these over the next 14 years? Holy cow.

There seems to be an endless supply of these themes for coins that don't even circulate. I like coins, but I wonder when we'll hit that wall similar to the original commemorative coins of the 1950's that suspended the program for awhile. Is there such a thing as collector burnout?

 

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No

 

Actually it is worth 1 cent.
That's 1/100th of a dollar.

 

See my comments in these related topic threads.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/american-innovation-dollar-annie-jump-cannon.376569/
and
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/yo...-innovation-series.340654/page-3#post-3695019

You all are suffering from the Blue Folder Syndrome. You need one of each identical from the same series in the same set to be complete. Myself, I see numismatics as a record of history.

My Annie Cannon and Hubble Space Telescope will go with my British Royal Mint Stephen Hawking 50p and Sir Isaac Newton 50p. But Newton, he is already on other coins that I have.




And those are coins. They are not only form of money.



I mean, some money is not meant to be spent but is only a souvenir of science.

 

Can you eat an armadillo like crab legs.

 

I look as those too and say cool. Hey. Other just look at these type of coins. Their amazed. If I pay with a 50 cent piece. Every single person takes the time to check it out. Hearing cool from a few