The US Mint is stretching the money making nickel series backwards now. The 4 coin series now offically has added a 5th coin 2006 "Return To Monticello". I guess they will do anything to keep the money rolling in. Where will it stop? Just think - by the time we get to 2020 we may have a Jefferson "Trip To The Outhouse" nickel, or maybe a "Lets Bonk The Slaves Tonight" nickel. Personally I consider the trip over.
you should write Numismatic News, their mail bag caters to irritable constipated old men. I really have enjoyed the Westward Journey sets, now it's back to another 50 years of the same old same old.
I agree. But I doubt it that we'll see 50 years of the same old same old. The 50 state quarters program has been such a big moneymaker (via seigniorage) for the U.S. Mint (and by extension, the U.S. Government) that I doubt they'll just let it die off. Look at the Presidential Dollars program starting up in 2007. Surely they won't let it just die off at this point. They'll come up with some way to keep making money. Surely a redesign of the Lincoln Cent will come around in 2009, and I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of commemorative series of cents. They've done the quarter and the nickel, and they're doing the dollar, so that leaves the dime, the penny, and the half. Personally, I'd like to see some push by the mint to get the halves back in circulation. Make a commemorative series of them, and I bet you'd get a few more people interested in halves.
Glaciermi Hey you young wippersnapper I'm just saying its the end of the journey when you reach the destination. I'm all for new coinage too. And for your information I'm very regular
I don't care what the Mint does, as long as it kills the design on the cent by 2009. 100 years of the same obverse is just plain bad. While they're at it, they can change the dime as well.
The 2009 Obverse for the cent has already been decided. A return to Brenners origional relief Lincoln profile. At least for the proof and Unc. sets with the Lincoln Bicentenial Rev's. All part of the President dollar coin law.
Actually, the U.S. mint is still making the series going westward, they are just taking the long way home. In fact, Westward series coins are so popular with youth that new designs will be created to educate U.S. schoolchildren instead of teachers. "The Khan Legacy" "Pilgrimage To Mecca" "Viking Longboat"... :shrug: :shrug:
