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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Atarian, post: 1903560, member: 34285&quot;]If you look at some of the coins other countries produce, IMHO ours are pretty lame, for the most part.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. I&#039;d say about 75% of the modern commemoratives are just terrible. I submit the baseball series, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, etc. A few stand out as exceptional: Columbus and Smithsonian are good examples. Some had either a great obverse or reverse (Franklin) but most I think are a fail compared to other countries. Not to say that these aren&#039;t worthy causes, but the execution is pretty bad.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Silver Eagle - excellent obverse, but a copy of an old design. Nothing wrong with that but the reverse could use some work.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Lincoln cent - nice design but an un-needed denomination. The coin is cheapened by copper-plated zinc. Now the nickel may face the same fate?</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Copper-nickel clad - looks &quot;cheesy&quot;. Why not the same percentage of copper and nickel as an alloy - like the nickel (coin). I&#039;m surprised this has been around as long as it has. I realize the need to &quot;trick&quot; people with the clad 65-70 halves so they looked like a pre-64 coin, but those days are long gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Platinum $50 - does anyone really think this design, for the largest face value currently produced legal tender coin, could not be better? This is our premier item and should look as such, not like a subway token.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. Can&#039;t stop myself. Baseball? I don&#039;t like baseball and the coin is terrible. I love football but would not buy a football themed coin. How about space exploration (this could be a huge series)&nbsp; famous historic US battles, presidents WORTHY of being on a dollar coin, there&#039;s so much more.</p><p><br /></p><p>7. The &quot;golden&quot; dollar. FAIL FAIL FAIL. The vast majority of the time these are used is when someone unfortunately receives one in change. Then it&#039;s in the jar with the Lincoln cents until enough are accumulated to be taken to the credit union. Ugly design for the most part. I friggin&#039; HATED SBAs until the Sacs came out. Sacs look like crap when circulated which isn&#039;t very often. Scrap these or the dollar bill. Go back to a dollar coin with more nickel content. A copy of an Aladdin&#039;s Castle token a dollar does not make.</p><p><br /></p><p>8. Dime I like. An old design that still looks nice today.</p><p><br /></p><p>9. Ditto the quarter - I can live with it. And it&#039;s 10,000 different reverses.</p><p><br /></p><p>10. Half. Still like it. I use them whenever I can.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why is almost half of the mints production comprised of cents that cost much more to produce than their face value, and that the vast majority of people could not care less about?</p><p><br /></p><p>If we&#039;re going to keep the nickel too can we maybe reduce it in size and not make it out of copper-plated pot-metal?</p><p><br /></p><p>I could go on for a while more, but I&#039; sure some people have already stopped reading. Constructive and serious comments are appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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