Restrikes of classic designs

Well, for me, I never carry change, so when I spend cash, which is more often than I use a card, I get change and it goes into my 5 gallon bottle for a rainy day.

 

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The only thing I use coins for on a regular basis is laundry.

 

I cannot recall the last time I found a nickel, dime, or quarter in a parking lot and I completely disagree with that baloney about people "refusing" to use the dollar coins.

Folks just don't seem to understand that $1, and $2 and possibly even $5 coins do much more, economically, $1, $2, and $5 "Federal Reserve Bank" notes.

Meaning, the government doesn't have to buy them from the Fed.

But then, the general population doesn't have a clue about money anyway..........

 

Curious.

If the government does bullion designs of classic coinage, will they have to mark them with "COPY" since they would in fact be "copies" of genuine circulating coins.

 

If the Granite Lady commem spoken of earlier is any indication, I'm afraid that today's mint would screw up the designs of other classics as well. Therefore I would propose that they come up with new designs that are inspired by the classics but depart from them enough to avoid looking like a bad copy.

For example the 2005 Buffalo reverse nickel was quite well executed and historically very fitting in more ways than one. Why not have a design contest and try something new?

 

Note that I didn't say a dollar coin (or 2 dollar, 5 dollar, etc) didn't make economic sense. However, economic theory and the general populace have never jibed. The American general public simply doesn't want to use a dollar coin--and hasn't wanted to use one since the 18th century.

The general American public really doesn't care what is more efficient. They want what is more convenient--TO THEM.

They didn't want the far superior Betamax; they wanted VHS. They don't want public transportation; they want private cars. They don't want solar/wind power; they want hydro/coal plants.

and so on and on.