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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1872176, member: 19463&quot;]We all will differ on what we consider best for any period.&nbsp; I like coins that served commerce.&nbsp; When I was a kid, the common coin we saw was the half dollar.&nbsp; A whole dollar was a lot of money so there was a need for the half.&nbsp; Today, in the US, there are almost no halves in circulation.&nbsp; Dimes and quarters bear most of the coin load and a whole dollar is not so much any more.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1800&#039;s was the, agreeably superb, silver crowd a major player in the economy or was it the florin or shilling?&nbsp; US silver coins of the 19th century had the unusual situation of all being the same basic type from 5 cents to a dollar: bust, seated, Barber.&nbsp; This stopped at the start of the 20th when each took a different pose of Liberty: Mercury, standing, walking before they went with the worst of all series of dead Presidents.&nbsp; When we select the coins to represent the century, should we go for the commercial workhorses, the high art leaders or something else?&nbsp;&nbsp; The first 22 centuries in the survey say mostly common workhorse coins because so few of us have the rare items (gold medallions come to mind).&nbsp; The copper cartwheels were fine examples of failed currencies but I thought them neat enough to suggest.&nbsp; Today only the countries that realized that inflation made it a good idea to issue one and two (Euro, Pound) coins rather than bills kept coins as spending money.&nbsp; In the US, they are &#039;change&#039; made necessary only because of the continuing silliness that a price should be $1.98 rather than $2 and contrived sales tax collection systems.&nbsp; I will be interested in seeing what people post for the centuries in which they lived.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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