My President dollar collection is complete, Reagan arrived today.

Got the P and D mintmarks. Now I don't have to think about this series until the next president passes away. In looking at the coins Reagan's teeth are ginormous.

 

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The program ends with Reagan, even if another president dies.

 

You still need the Reagan RP coming out in a couple months for a complete set don't you?

 

Is that the proof one? If so I don't collect them, just business strikes.

 

Reverse proof found only in the C&C sets. They came out last year with only truman, ike, Johnson & kennedy.

 

It would resume only under another act of Congress.

 

I would like this series if it did not leave out Jimmy Carter regardless of how he governed. After all, what good is a coin collection when it is incomplete?

 

Perhaps you are unaware that he is still alive.

 

doh!

 

Yes, but why use that as an excuse to exclude him from the series? I know there is tradition, but why screw up a set over tradition? Ha, ha!

 

Where is it tradition to have living presidents on US coins?

 

My thought exactly, everyone knows its for dead presidents only. Carter is still alive.

 

A complete "set" or "series" is whatever you define it to be. That being said, the presidential dollar series is, IMHO, an ill-defined series to begin with. The law was written such that it was never quite sure until a couple of years ago which presidents would be included.

Album makers (i.e. Dansco, etc.) had to do something back in 2006/2007 to put an album together to start selling product to meet demand. I wonder if Dansco will sell a modified "2nd to last page" to eliminate the holes labeled for Carter. My current Dansco "2nd to last page" has Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, CARTER, Reagan. My current Dansco "last page" has Bush, Clinton, and Bush which theoretically will never be filled now (perhaps it was hopeful thinking on Dansco's part that they would be fillable! ).

 

Put an SBA in the Carter slot. That coin was unofficially (and derisively) called the "Carter Quarter."

 

We also have "Reagan Pennies" made of zinc.

 

bu law it stated only 'dead presidents'

 

And Reagan only got in because they changed their interpretation. Up until the point where it became clear that Carter would not make the "dead for two years" requirement the official schedule of when each President dollar would come out ended with Ford. (Before Ford died it ended with Nixon.) Reagan, even though dead, was not on the list. They were using the interpretation that the Presidents had to honored in the order they served (That is in the law) and they could not skip one to get to another one. Then when Carter missed the cut and there wouldn't be a Reagan coin all of a sudden the "Honor them in the order served" only applied to dead presidents and Reagan was added to the list.

 

@Conder101 good info. Do you happen to have a reference for that or an idea of where you read or heard that? TIA

 

I meant it is tradition to keep living presidents off coins. However, Calvin Coolidge was alive in 1926 when portraid on the Sesquicentennial half dollar.

 

I know that, but I insist that congress creates these coin programs without considering how collectors will respond to them.