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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tanner520, post: 60287, member: 1613&quot;]Actually, the bill now says that they will continue to make Sacagawea dollars at the same time as the 4 President dollars.&nbsp; When the bill was first introduced, it stated that the Sac would be stopped during the release of the President dollars but now they&#039;ve modified that.&nbsp; Another thing they modified was the release of dollars for living Presidents.&nbsp; At first they were going to make dollars for current living Presidents but now they have to be dead for at least two years.&nbsp; So, if the series starts in 2007, like it&#039;s proposed to be, and no currently living President dies by the time this series ends then we will see a coin for Ford and Reagan but not for Carter (since he&#039;s still living).&nbsp; Likewise, if any currently living President dies and has been dead for at least two years by the time this series gets to their term, there will be a coin made for them but it may not be in sequence with how the Presidents served (since other preceding Presidents would still be alive).&nbsp; It would get kinda hit-and-miss at the end it sounds like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting tidbit involving these dollars is the non-consecutive term policy.&nbsp; Since Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, he gets two coins for his presidencies.&nbsp; He was our 22nd and 24th Presidents.&nbsp; The 22nd and 24th terms would come out in the 6th year of this series (year 2012), obviously the same year for the release of the coins for both terms.&nbsp; So, the only difference between these two coins would be the reverses, the difference being his term numbers.&nbsp; According to the bill, the obverses and all other features would be the same between the two coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said earlier, this program is supposed to begin in 2007.&nbsp; The first series would include Washington, our first President of course, so he will be on one of the dollar coins as well as all five of the state quarters for that year.&nbsp; Guess which state is slated to be released in 2007 in the State Quarter program?&nbsp; Yup, Washington.&nbsp; He&#039;ll be all over that year&#039;s Mint set.</p><p><br /></p><p>And one final thought (and then I&#039;ll shut up).&nbsp; Have you counted how many coins will be in the 2007 and 2008 Mint sets?&nbsp; Five dollar coins (4 President and 1 Sac), five Statehood quarters as well as the normal cent, nickel, dime and half dollar for a grand total of 14 coins per Mint.&nbsp; Multiply that by the two Mints and we have a 28-coin Mint set for 2007 and 2008.&nbsp; That would beat the old record of 22 from 2004 and this year, but are they going to be able to stuff three pliofilm sheets in each Mint&#039;s envelope I wonder?&nbsp; And what about the Proof sets?&nbsp; They&#039;ve used two plastic lenses so far but will they include a third plastic lense and use a fatter box than they&#039;re using now?&nbsp; That&#039;ll really screw up these collectors (like myself) that have these neat and tidy 1999-2008 collection boxes that are slotted only for the two-lense Proof sets.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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