Ok, I can hear all the screaming now and I too think there has been alot of "stuff" from the mint lately but, if a state Kennedy program would do for collecting what the quarter program did for it, wouldn't it be a credible idea? It would also perk up a slow series. Since they don't circulate widely, we could just have 5 or 10 states per year in the mint sets and the regular issue minted as needed (like they are now, sorta). It would also be an opportunity for all those second place state Q designs that were better than the first placers to be used! Go ahead and shoot, I'm ready!:hail:
I'm not sure if it will perk up the series since it isn't a coin most people see every day. Part of what made the quarters work was that they were interesting and the population saw them everyday. A good experiment will be to see what the Presidential series does for the dollars. If that works and the public accepts them then I think it will work for halves too, although I think it should be a different idea than the states again. I'm more inclined to believe (based on no evidence whatsoever) that the public will still ignore the dollars and if the halves were changed they would ignore them too. just my thoughts though, I could be wrong.
Are the Presidential series coins going to be circulating coins? I really think that they need to eliminate the dollar bill for the coins to be accepted.
That's a good question. One of the reasons the SBA and the Sac didn't work is that the dollar bills weren't pulled at the same time.
Halves Mabey they should do the half dollars with national park designs. That would be a little different. And put Liberty on the obverse.
The National Parks idea is a good one. Cave Troll is right that it wouldn't help circulation of the half probably but there would be a continued revenue source for the Mint in two ways; one is higher $ mint and proof sets, and the other is new buyers for all mint products because of some who may start collecting because of the comm. half program. Plus older halves would go up some.
