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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KLJ, post: 76140, member: 1910&quot;]I disagree.&nbsp; We should go with new designs.&nbsp; Bringing back one old design (e.g. the Standing Lib) to replace another (Washington with heraldic eagle) is no improvement.&nbsp; The pre-war designs would never come off as they did before.&nbsp; This Mint is too enamored of low relief designs, and would destroy the design we all love and remember.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem we&#039;re going to have with the quarter is that it will require Congressional action to change the design.&nbsp; One design must be used for 25 years before the Treasury Secretary can change it one his own authority.&nbsp; The state quarter design(s) will be either 10 years or just over 10 weeks old in 2009.&nbsp; Even if the law as it stands presently dictates a return to the old Washington design, changing it then is troublesome.&nbsp; Remember that it was last minted in 1998, 22 years after the last coin change (the bicentennial reverse).&nbsp; And remember that no politician is going to want a change on a coin as important as the quarter without having his/her favorite issue (civil rights, victory over Communism, etc.) remembered on the coin.&nbsp; As the old saying goes - and our coinage has proven since the 1960s - &quot;no solution is so permanent as a temporary one.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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