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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Midas, post: 47933, member: 2761&quot;]Depicting ALL of the U.S. Presidents on future dollar coins is a bad idea, here&#039;s why:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. It could become very political as various groups will favor or shun certain presidents.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. It continues to elevate presidents on coinage, when most collectors and others agree that the ideals of liberty and America&#039;s greatness are best portrayed on our coinage. Most of these presidents would turn in their grave if they knew they had been &quot;idolized&quot; on coins like the monarchs and rulers of the past. It goes against Washington&#039;s vision.&nbsp; It will make the United States look no differant than other &quot;banana republic&quot; coins...who have to put their mugs on obverses to tell the popluation who is in charge...for the moment.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The series will be forever incomplete. Our nation will continue to elect presidents long after this series ends.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>4. The first lady coins will be too difficult to obtain for the average collector and first ladies were NOT even elected to office.&nbsp; Hillary and Bill could eventually be on BOTH of these coins...think about it!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rep. Castle should consider revising this legislation for designs depicting the ideals of liberty, freedom, and America&#039;s greatness as a nation. OR, he should propose one design that doesn&#039;t feature any living person, but rather a modernized conceptual design of national pride, liberty and freedom.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all...do you want to see Presidents like Fillmore, Harding, Harrison, Taft, etc. depicted on dollar coins?&nbsp; Let&#039;s call a spade a spade...no dollar coin is going to work unless the paper dollar bill is eliminated.&nbsp; Canada and Europe eliminated their paper dollar bill and sure enough, they quickly adopted.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that is unlikely to happen in the U.S. because we would rather spend $500 million per year (the cost to produce $1 bills) for a product whose life span is only around 16 months.&nbsp; How long would a dollar coin last?&nbsp; 30, 40, 50 years??&nbsp; Sure it may cost more per unit initially to produce, but the dollars saved in the immediate long term would be staggering.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who wants us to spend all of this money producing $1 bills??...the banking and paper industry. </p><p><br /></p><p>So whatever dollar coin we design (hopefully NOT all of the presidents), it will fail just like the Peace, IKE, SBA and SAC dollar coins unless Americans do not have a choice between metal or paper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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