Quarter Dollar rant..

I hope they do Laura Frasier right and use her design...
She won the design contest for the 1932 quarter, but the mint director at the time didn't think a woman's design should win, so he overruled the contest results and imposed the use of Flannigan's design unilaterally.
We owe it to Laura, and her design is GORGEOUS.:yes:

I hope they do it soon too. I am sick of the ever-changing quarter.

 

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While there have been some very nice reverses during the State and ATB programs, I do miss the eagle reverse.





It would have been nice if they had used the eagle reverse for 2010, before beginning the rotating ATB series

I'm glad I can still find the eagles in circulation.

 

Uh-oh. A coin of the Italian fascist regime as a role model for the quarter? Then again, in those years both Italy and the US used ancient Roman attributes a lot on their coins. So this could have been a coincidence.

I collected the state (and territories) quarters, and have them all, but I don't think I want a complete collection of the ATB quarters. It's getting a little much - especially since here in Europe I cannot get them at face, hehe. But I find collecting such pieces more interesting than collecting "regular" quarters that always have the same design and vary by year and mintmark only.

Christian

 

All our coin designs are out dated-well the Lincoln shield cent is OK

 

Of course you have a point, in that a Roman design element (the fasces) had already been used on an American coin before the Washington quarter-- that is, the Mercury dime of 1916-1945. But as another poster has already mentioned, the actual winner of the coin redesign contest in 1932, Laura Gardin Fraser (wife of Earl Fraser, the designer of the Buffalo nickel) was denied the right to have her design used on the Washington quarter by then-Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, who preferred John Flanagan's design, which seems to have been modeled after the 5-lira coin of what had become fascist Italy. Mellon was well known to be quite a right-winger in his time, so it may be more than just coincidence or misogynism that compelled Mellon to select Flanagan's design over Fraser's.

 

Where did you hear this??? That would be terrible!!!

 

I think bobbeth87 is being facetious...

 

hahaha cant read sarcasm! Sadly I'm sure his prediction isn't far off...

 

we just might see the end of coins under $1 first. Every bank hates them and the government spends too much to make them. Not only does the quarter look cheap, the presidential dollars look like the junk produced in the third world. IMHO

 

Speaking of State quarters, the love/hate discussions, are rolls directly from the bank (uncirculated?) worth opening? My father collected at least one roll for each state although some rolls were inadvertently returned for paper money! Just curious. I think I have 28 rolls.

 

Good cuz I am now going after the "S" ones.

 

If you got the rolls of wisconsin near Arizona (I think that is where they were found), open and look for the extra leaf. Rolls sell for a premium, especially some of the earlier ones. Look online.

Yes, I was kidding about the counties. However, it was just announced that they will star commemorating beaches starting in 2021. They will do it in order of popularity. You can vote between Wakiki, Malibu, Huntington, or Miami Beach online right now. usmint.com/beaches/vote/eaglesareforsissys.html

 

I agree our coins are way outdated...
Lincoln cent = Good now if they can stick to the shield for a while.
Nickel = Changed, but not for the better, that's for sure.
Dime = Geriatric design, should be put out of it's misery. Conversion to Reagan would be awesome.
Quarter... You know my feelings on that from my previous post.
Half = Should go back to Franklin and give him a fair shot at a long life that was cut short by mourning JFK.
Mourning JFK = So overdone now.
Dollar = Too messed up to even worry about.

 

I just had an idea!

Everyone seems to want to do away with cents, one dollar bills, AND get dollar coins circulating...
Do it all by making the dollar coin small, the same exact size as the cent, while discontinuing the cent from circulation.
The dollar coin would be gold and small. Easy to distinguish from other coins, and easy to carry enough coins to make paper dollars go away.

Maybe reduce halves to the size of the current dollar coins, and it might be used more. ???
Just a thought.

 

IMHO as well...

 

Why change the size of the dollar coin? It is just slightly bigger than a quarter, so it is not that big. If they really want the dollar coin to circulate, they need to stop producing the dollar note. The cent? at some point people will have to agree that it is not worth producing anymore.....of course, I don't expect that to happen for years and years....

 

Rumor is that Miss Liberty will be featured on the obverse in a bikini! :whistle:

 

One benefit that I have really noticed from the state quarter program was the amount of young collectors introduced into the hobby. I personally can deal with the new program if it helps revitalize our hobby!

 

Would be sad, but we may never find out what was the primary motivation here. By the way, in 1948 socialist East Germany, the later GDR, issued coins with a reverse that was a copy of a 1943 Nazi Germany design for Ukraine. Somewhat off-topic, yes, but it shows that sometimes good (or at least appropriate) designs are re-used under quite different political conditions ...

Christian