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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 495829, member: 66&quot;]The coin was not designed to be sold to collectors, it was designed to circulate.&nbsp; It was thought to get as much of the wording off of the coins as possible so the design could be made lager and bolder.</p><p><br /></p><p>And GD is right, everyone LOVED the idea back when it was proposed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They are afraid people, especially non english speakers, won&#039;t understand the words but they think they will understand the number.&nbsp; Let&#039;s cater to the lowest common denominator.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While several olympic commems have used USA they have ALL also used United States of America.&nbsp; (The reason the commems used USA was because they wanted to use the olympic rings as part of the design pf the 1984 olympic dollar and the international olympic committee would not allow it unless they put the USA there as well because the rings are a trademark of the IOC.&nbsp; If we used it without the initials we would have had to pay the IOC royalties on every coin.&nbsp; Oddly enough on later olympic coins they were used without having to pay royalties.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Why, the size s fine as it is.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why the date and mintmark are on the edge now.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yet the Spanish 8 reales did circulate.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; No paper money.&nbsp; Why didn&#039;t the dollar coin of that era circulate? Because it was undervalued.&nbsp; It contained more silver than the 8 reales coin of the same value.&nbsp; Grishams law worked and the underweight coins, 8 reales, drove the overweight coins out of circulation.&nbsp; The dollar coins have never worked because there has always been some reason.&nbsp; Either they were undervalued, or later because paper money which was more convenient was available.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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