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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;alcochaser, post: 306351, member: 11241&quot;]Something needs to be done, the penny and nickel are made at a loss. The Half has been in trouble since 2002, since the Casinos went to tokens and/or electronic card. The Dollar coins have gotten nothing but mixed acceptance. </p><p><br /></p><p>The quarters are however very successful. The Statehood program in my opinion has reinvigorated a hobby. But perhaps they are going a little overboard now. The Presidential series is a good idea, but has it&#039;s problems. I can&#039;t see people going nuts over Millard Fillmore ROFL. But Honest Abe, and some others will no doubt draw HUGE mintages. We have already seen it with low James Madison mintages.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Sac dollar? It failed..... time for it to go, the Presidents will have enough in the way without carrying this as baggage. Do the special reverse and end it at 10 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can foresee a time when the Mint produces nothing but medals, Bullion,&nbsp; Comems, proof sets, and mint sets. Maybe not soon, but in 20 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why? Electronic commerce is removing a lot of the need for cash and currency. It&#039;s allready taken it&#039;s toll on the Half Dollar. It&#039;s bound to have more of a toll on the others.</p><p><br /></p><p>It may be while off, but I can see a special commemorative for the half in 2013 and 2014. 50 years after the Assassination and debut of the Kennedy Half, perhaps after which the half dollar follows the, Half Cent and Big Dollar into Oblivion as one of the originally authorized denominations, to be revived occasionally as a Silver Comem denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, did I miss something? Liberty returned on the back of the Pres dollars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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