Question: What's a spouse?

Sorry to ask a totally newb question, but what's a spouse?

 

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A husband or wife.

 

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Thanks guys. Helpful, very helpful.



Actually, I was kind of wondering what the numismatic meaning is.

 

A spouse coin is the presidential $1 coins counterpart. They minted $5 dollar gold coins with each presidents wife pictured on the obverse. Presidents without a wife will recieve a likeness of Liberty on the obverse. Presidents with girls on the side will recieve a $20 platinum "home wrecker" coin. Such as the Marylin Monroe Happy Birthday Coin and the Monica Lewinski......uhh..well you get the idea. j/k...only the first part is true.

 

lol at the platnum home wrecker coin

 

A spouse is what's left over after all the fun is gone out of a relationship.

 

Correct, when the spice has gone out of the marriage, what remains is the spouse.

 

someone who yells at you for not taking out the trash

 

Spouse-- definition:
Female: She who is always right.
Male: He who is always wrong.

In coins, the gold Presidents' wife commemorated on a gold coin.

(Remember: behind every successful man is a woman, telling him that he is wrong.)

 

Actually, they are $10 gold coins (½oz gold).

 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

When you say presidential $1 coins, I assume you mean the post-Sacagawea circulation dollars.

Am I to understand that $10 bullion types are being made with the spouse of each president on a circulation dollar?; I thought only four presidents were being featured. Is the mint gunna do every blasted president?!!!...[author feels heavy weight on chest] :rolling:[smilie vomits]...like with the state quarters? :desk:

[:goofer:If I remember correctly from high school ('cause you know, it was
all of like four years ago) only two presidents were unmarried. Am I
right about presidential marital status?]
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Oh, and thanks for all the non-serious answers; see if I come to you-all with a question again.:goofer:

 

1 yes like the state quarters

2 hey most of those answers were true and technically is what you asked

 

Please say it isn't true.

In other words, there will be like 34 (how many are we up too?) different dollar designs; I continue to feel quite ill at this prospect.

Possibly true, possibly very slightly misogynistic, but clearly not what I was asking about. This is a coin forum, not a 'definitions-of-common-English-words forum'.:goofer:

I have always been sure this was a plan by the mint to get people to hoard dollar coins until there are gazillions owned by the public and people get board and start spending them, thus replacing the paper 1 (something I have long been in favor of, though I fear it would spur inflation [same fear I have of eliminating US¢ coin])

 

It isn't true

Well, you asked for someone to say it isn't true.

I like trees too but I also like paper money and people actually DO spend it. Will people hoard the dollar coins? Yup!
There are still hoards of bicentennial quarters all over this nation because "they'll be worth something some day".


So, let's see if the mint is doing this until people get rid of their "hoards" which may, in turn, drive paper money out of circulation it could actually happen in what? Ten, twenty, thirty etc. years?

Dollar coins will not "drive out" the $1 note. We've had the Ikes, Suzy Bs, Sacagamamas and now dead Presidents yet the lowly dollar "bill" gets used every day by millions. The only way the $1 note will disappear is if the laws are passed to stop production of them. It has worked in other countries.

That's painful for me to say as a currency collector but it's the truth. Untill the $1 note is gone this country WILL have a gazillion dollar coins sitting in vaults collecting dust. This pretty much happened with Morgan dollars. Why do you think there are so many BU examples still around?

 

Sheepish

Sorry. Didn't mean to start an argument.

The title of the post meant I want it to be not true that there will be a different coin for every US president ever.

Also, my user name is 'I Like Trees' because I like to reverse of the Connecticut quarter, not because I think we should stop using paper.

US bills don't even contain tree fiber anyway.

I am probably wrong, but I don't think there have ever been multiple designs of circulation dollar coins produced at the same time. That is different than the other time periods you mentioned like with the Morgans.

Just because I have a theory about the Treasury's secret plan, doesn't mean it will work. But have you noticed the 5 through 100 have been redesigned but not the 1?

I like the idea of a $1 coin because it will save the government money and look cool.

Private business, taken altogether, favor discontinuation of dollar coins. I'm not saying there aren't millions of businesses that have a different institutional preference, but that is the majority position. I just don't want the elimination of dollar bills and cent coins to spur inflation.

I really have no idea how many BU examples of Morgan dollars there are around, it's not something I pay attention to. I would appreciate if the term 'Sacagamama' weren't used; it's pretty offensive.

 

If Hilary wins the election, is Bill going to be on spouse coin some day?

 

Cherio

Thanks I really know nothing about coins from before 1900.

I do know that in the 1790's the government didn't make paper currency, so dollar coins didn't have any competition (except for banknotes and issues from states and other countries and buckskins and beads and stuff:rolling

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