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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;braincramp, post: 9573, member: 925&quot;]Thoughts:</p><p><br /></p><p>If we have a coin which honors some person or ideal, it becomes difficult to replace it, because some may feel that the person or ideal continues to deserve recognition, and a new choice may be refuting the old in some way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps we need a law which not only preserves a design for a minimum of 25 years, but also terminates the design after 50 or 100 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>100 years of Lincoln will be enough.&nbsp; Boring!&nbsp; Do you really want a complete set to consist of 500 or 1000 coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps we should not put someone on a coin until they&#039;ve been dead for 25 or 50 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Should the commemorative look-and-feel continue to creep into our coinage?&nbsp; Many of the states and their themes have appeared on commemorative coins before, and so have historical events such as Lewis and Clark.</p><p><br /></p><p>We are now doing some similar things with our coins, currency, and stamps.&nbsp; Maybe we should put patriots and national heros on currency, national points of interest and achievements on coins, and the lesser but noteworthy events and people (Elvis, baseball, Boy Scouts) on stamps.&nbsp; And let&#039;s get U.S. Grant off the fifty.</p><p><br /></p><p>And please, no presidential series on coins.&nbsp; Most don&#039;t deserve the honor.</p><p><br /></p><p>What would happen to type sets if coins are different each year?&nbsp; I have this question now with the State Quarters, which pose a puzzle in my type collection.&nbsp; Is each state a different type, or not?&nbsp; If a significantly different reverse doesn&#039;t make a different type, then wheat and memorial cents aren&#039;t different types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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