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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 60330, member: 708&quot;]Hmm five years is alright. It&#039;s when you get to say four designs per year that it gets stupid and if a humble date collector like me was say trying to get all the denominations can you imagine the amount you&#039;d have to get if all the denominations were rotating on four designs a year? Ekkk!</p><p><br /></p><p>I think if you were to have a standard obverse for each denomination and have the rotational aspect on the reverse then you could just get away with changing the design every year.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know from first experience that UK £1 coins do this rather successfully, let me explain it for those uncertain;</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 5 designs at any one time, one Royal, one for England, one for Scotland, one for Ireland and one for Wales.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse is always Elizabeth II (The portrait is altered every so often, 1953, 1968, 1985 and the last time 1998).</p><p><br /></p><p>Now how the reverses work are as follows;</p><p><br /></p><p>1983 Royal design</p><p>1984 Scottish theme</p><p>1985 Welsh theme</p><p>1986 Irish theme</p><p>1987 English theme</p><p><br /></p><p>and then in 1988 they started back with the royal theme again and ran through the designs again taking it to 1992. (The royal design tends to remain unaltered, although there was a one off design in 1988 but we&#039;ll ignore that).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then in 1993 a whole new set of designs were introduced, still representing the same four contries but rather than using national plant emblems lie thistles and oak trees, they switched it to heraldry, three lions, dragon etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Each one of those designs were issued twice taking the run to 2002, and from 2003 onwards they&#039;ve now altered the theme to national bridges, which i suppose will run for two terms per design taking us to 2012.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now i suppose if you have say five or ten designs for each of your themes then you could either run it for 20 years and have each design come out twice, or if you only have five designs run it for 10 years and have each design come out twice.</p><p><br /></p><p>This adds stability because it&#039;s recurring, and the retaining of a static obverse of some sort, say a map of the US, or the liberty torch or an eagle or something would keep some kind of extra stability. Whilst issuing different reverses gives a bit of spice to the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only problem i forsee is that modern mints are very collector/profit orientated and they&#039;ll make more by issuing them much faster say four designs a year and running it into the ground to make as much out of it as they can, until the collectors can no longer keep up with the output.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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