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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1884075, member: 112&quot;]Uhhhhhhh, no - multiple new problems created.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just one of the problems, and a lesser one at that. The primary problem is that there isn&#039;t enough silver on the planet to even do it. The second major problem, and it exacerbates the primary problem, is that all silver coins would be pulled out of this country and smuggled or exported to other countries so fast that it would make your head spin. And then we would have to mint more, and more, and more, silver coins. And then they would disappear.</p><p><br /></p><p>And no, the US dollar could not be backed by silver, or silver and gold, because there is not enough of it on the planet to do so. That&#039;s the primary reason we quit using it to begin with. That&#039;s reality, those are the facts. It cannot be done no matter how badly you&#039;d like it done.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now as for the OP&#039;s question- would we like the results ? Highly unlikely. I have a bit of experience with that since I led the campaign to get new designs on our coins, and we got new designs. The results of those new designs ? Let&#039;s just say I wish I&#039;d never done it to begin with.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is the chocolate and vanilla syndrome. In other words it&#039;s a matter of taste. And the people who do the deciding, well naturally they decide on designs that suit &quot;their&quot; taste - not somebody else&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>A perfect example of this is the Sacky. Back when the design of the Sacky was being debated the voices of those who wanted Lady Liberty to return to our coinage was heard and represented. Here is one of those proposed designs.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]320120[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;ve posted this design many times in years past. And I&#039;ve yet to find even 1 person who was in favor the Lady Liberty design being returned who didn&#039;t like it. Personally I love it ! But the people who do the deciding - didn&#039;t. I wanted vanilla, they wanted chocolate. And we got chocolate.</p><p><br /></p><p>For over a century our coins used the Lady Liberty designs. Why ? For a couple of reasons. We all know what happened in the very beginning and why that design motif was chosen. And for years that was enough so it continued. Then it became tradition and still it was continued. Then, when the people who do the deciding changed, it just so happened that &quot;they&quot; had other ideas. The old still liked vanilla, the new wanted chocolate. And chocolate we got. </p><p><br /></p><p>It took a while but eventually the idea of using chocolate caught on and spread. And in less than 50 years all of our coins had &quot;chocolate&quot; designs because the people doing the deciding liked chocolate. Now, today, &quot;chocolate&quot; has become tradition. The cycle has repeated. </p><p><br /></p><p>And until we somehow manage to get new and different people into the position of being the ones who do the deciding, ones who like vanilla (Lady LIberty), we are stuck with chocolate <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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