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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;n9jig, post: 1448571, member: 35249&quot;]There is a difference between dead presidents and live royalty on coins. While the original intent of monarchs on coins was to demonstrate the power, at least the British monarch is there more for tradition than anything else. </p><p><br /></p><p>Putting past presidents on coins started with Lincoln IIRC a hundred years after he was born and over 40 after he died.Later, Washington was gone over a century before he ended up on a coin, same for Jefferson. It wasn&#039;t until Roosevelt that a circulating coins was used to commemorate a President that the majority of the populace was alive for.&nbsp; With the perfect storm of the silver rush of the early 60&#039;s and Kennedy being memorialized on the half dollar months after he died the half dollar stopped being a circulating coin and became more of a medal. </p><p><br /></p><p>The designs of coins these days are stale, uninspiring and in sore need of refresh. There has to be some happy medium of design and relief that will allow a decent appearing coin to be made in the quantities currently produced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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