I am thrilled about the $1 coin. But I also know it won't be widely used as long as the paper note exists. I don't really care for the Sacagawea dollar. It looks real dirty looking after a while and looses its golden colour. Perhaps if it were the same colour as the other coins... On another note, I will not buy any of the presidential series dollar coins. I'm so sick of tired old dead presidents on our coins so I refuse to support this series. Again, dollar coins just don't circulate that much so what really the point other than the mint trying to profit?
I have no interest in the proposed US presidential dollars either. My interests are in older stuff anyway. But a Richard M. Nixon dollar would be an oddity I would keep.
I just don't see how a coin collector wouldn't collect this $1.00 cheap coin!! If it were solid gold or platinum I could understand, but gold colored like the Sac is cheap and a piece of HISTORY of our country. I don't want to hear you complaining when these skyrocket in popularity and you decided to not jump on this band-wagon! Just my .02 cents worth. Do as you please. I will be buying at least 5 of them each time. At least that is my plan as of now, I am sure that will change. To each his own. But a coin collector not collecting the newest designs, blasphemous.
???? We had a dollar coin colored like the others - the SBA - it was a failure and is also killing the Sacky because banks still ship them mixed together. The SBA looks too much likea quarter. I even got one in chnage - as a quarter - from a lasy at the Post Offcie, which is where most get used as change from the vending machines.
SAC has a great reverse, but a teenage native American with her kid looking back on the obverse?? Come on!! This should have been on the obverse: Bit then again, the C.C.A.D. has deemed liberty, or some new depiction of her, "too political. What a shame...
If there's one thing I've learned it's that there's no accounting for taste. I really like the Sackie, I carry one as a pocket piece. I know that the $1 coin is unpopular & probably will remain so. But I collect them. I guess I'll just have to wait & see what the Presidents look like before I make up my mind.
