Pics of Wash Dollar Roll opened

didnt have time to get a good pic...so this'll have to do for now...I spent one today at lunch...the waiter didnt know what it was...another person who worked there knew so they took it...one in circulation here in houston...probably spend 10 more dollars worth

 

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Is this the first time a dollar $ sign has been used on a US coin?

 

Yes, and this is only the third time where the denomination of a regular issue U.S. coin has not been displayed using words. And a bit of trivia: technically speaking, the S symbol with one line through it represents one dime, and an S symbol with two lines through it represents a dollar.

 

OK, so I love a challenge and wanted to figure out what the other two coins were. Here are all the US coins I came up with that do not use words for the denominations. Which were the two you were referring to? Your term "regular issue" may be the determining factor - I honestly don't know.

Thanks

Darryl

1. CAPPED BUST QUARTER DOLLARS (1815-1838)
2. DRAPED BUST QUARTER DOLLARS (1796-1807)
3. CAPPED BUST TEN CENTS OR DIME (1809-1837)
4. DRAPED BUST DIMES (1796-1807)
5. CAPPED BUST FIVE CENTS OR HALF DIME (1829-1837)
6. DRAPED BUST HALF DIMES (1796-1805)
7. FLOWING HAIR HALF DIMES (1794-1795)
8. THREE CENTS - NICKEL (1865-1889)
9. THREE CENTS - SILVER (1851-1873)

 

The mint seems to be into this ugly portrait kick first with Jefferson and now this,


that is ONE UGLY coin.

Ruben

 

This was a pic of George taken after Martha said NO !

 

Seventh time. The other six are the three cent silver, three cent nickel, 1883 no cent V nickel, Capped bust half dime, capped bust dime, and capped bust quarter. Several of the very early silver and gold coins did not express the denomination in words, but they did not express the denomination at all and the people were expected to know the denomination based on the size of the coin. I have not included these in the count.

There are also several gold coins that expressed the denomination as a number and then the abbreviation D for Dollar. If you include those as part of the not expressed as words the number of previous types rises to five more. (I'm not counting all the small changes to the gold coins and just going by the major types.) So that would bring the new dollar up to the twelfth coin not to express the denomination in words.

 

Thanks for clarification guys I was thinking about 5-cent coins, 10-cent coins, and quarter dollars. Even then my math was wrong

 

Depth of the edge lettering

As I have been looking at some of my world coins with edge lettering them it surprises me more and more at how shallow the edge lettering is on the new US dollar. I think British Royal Mint has it down on the Pound - the lettering is good and deep. You will not lose that lettering unless you shave off a good portion of the coin. Not that I follow world coin discussions that close but I have not heard of much issues with the Royal mint with edge lettering.

Wonder why the US mint did not go deeper with the lettering?

Wonder why they are having the issues they are with the initial release of the coin?

 

I agree that its an ugly obverse.
Has anyone actually seen one of those in circulation yet?

 

Have any St. Gaudens ever been found with no edge lettering?

The only other coin I have with edge lettering is the 20 St. Gaudens.

Have any St. Gaudens ever been found with no edge lettering?

 

That's for sure. But it's not hurting us collectors though! Kepp them errors coming. Maybe make some of them come my way LOL.

Phoenix

 

Presidental Dollars

Is the US Mint gonna issue the new dollars the same way that they issue the State Quarters? By that I mean are they going to issue the dollars until the next president, then STOP the issue of the PREVIOUS presidental dollar? Like with the State Quarter program.....the Mint issues the State quarters for about 10 weeks, then they issue the next state and STOP selling the previous state? Several E-Bay sellers list these STOPPED State Quarters as "sold out at the US Mint".
swick

 

You got It

 

Goes back to a comment I made about the British Royal Mint making the pound. They do a great job from all of the examples I have ever seen. The technology seems to be there to do it without major issues (I think).?. Why cannot the US Mint learn from these other mints on how to do it without major problems. Does every country have to recreate the wheel when they want to introduce a new process into their production? I guess that I am assuming that there would be some level of sharing of technology between the US Mint and some of the other World Mints. Sad if they don't...

 

Thanks for reply. Just out of curiosity I did a search on eBay US and UK for errors on the British Pound and found none. They did have 9 errors for the different versions of the Pence. If they have issues with making them they must either make fewer and slower or have better controls to catch the errors before they reach the public. If they were out there in any signifigant quantity they would be on ebay - that's for sure (even if they were only faked errors).

Just seems like the mint could have done more upfront to prevent this. Hopefully for the mints sake, it will get better...

Maybe this is their way of helping build interest. If they had all been fine, there would be about as much (maybe a little more) intrest as the Sacagawea gets. I don't really believe that but it's an interesting thought.

 

Excellent point. Yes the british are not having the same types of problems we are, but we are striking more in three months than they will strike in eight years. (Last mintage figure I have for a British pound was 2001 with a mintage for the year of 49 million coins. We are making 300 million in three months.)

 

The obverse is ugly, The reverse certainly could use some more details, the edge of the coins are hard to read. all in all, I say they are BUGLY....