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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scoinca, post: 279440, member: 7075&quot;]I think they&#039;re starting to spread themselves pretty thin.&nbsp; I finally got to see the new presidential dollar coins a few weeks ago (I&#039;m not exactly what you&#039;d call an early adopter)&nbsp; and it reminded me of a video game token.&nbsp; Has the impression of being a rough draft for a coin.&nbsp; I used a few at the farmer&#039;s market a few days ago and the vendors looked disappointed after their initial surprise.&nbsp; One of my main worries is with so many changes, the resulting coins won&#039;t look that great.&nbsp; If a new design can&#039;t win against the current design, don&#039;t change it merely for the sake of changing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Changing the design every year seems to work well for the Australian bullion coins (as well as those from other countries), but those aren&#039;t circulated.&nbsp; The state quarters program seems to have worked well, too, but I doubt that those design changes made people use more quarters.&nbsp; More got hoarded, probably, but if that&#039;s the goal, start minting silver coins again <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ericl is right - the federal reserve note is the default, and changing peoples&#039; habits is difficult to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for the rant - I just got my 2007 proof sets and they reinforced my impression that the quality of the coinage has declined over the last 15 years or so.&nbsp;&nbsp; Makes me appreciate the older coins, though![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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