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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1726623, member: 112"]This thread raises a few questions for me. First and foremost, are you guys blind ? </p><p><br /></p><p>We have 4 coins that circulate - cents, nickels, dimes and quarters. And in recent years 3 out of 4 of those coins have had their designs changed. Let's see, the last designs for those 3 came in 1909, 1932, and 1938. Since that time there have been 3 campaigns to get the coinage designs changed. I started and led the last of those campaigns, the only one that was successful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next question, just how often should changes take place ? For also in recent years, 3 out of 3 of those coins have changed designs at least twice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I guess the question comes that is the one that really bugs people - what should the designs be changed to ? That is probably the most difficult question to answer because you are always going to get forty eleven different answers. And no matter what answer you settle on the majority of the people are not going to like it because they would have preferred something different.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what to do, what to do, what to do ? Personally, I gave up because the last time I asked we ended up with what I consider a mess that made me wish I had never asked. Which is why there is an old adage that exist that says - be careful of what you ask for, you just might get it. Never really understood that before, but I sure do now ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1726623, member: 112"]This thread raises a few questions for me. First and foremost, are you guys blind ? We have 4 coins that circulate - cents, nickels, dimes and quarters. And in recent years 3 out of 4 of those coins have had their designs changed. Let's see, the last designs for those 3 came in 1909, 1932, and 1938. Since that time there have been 3 campaigns to get the coinage designs changed. I started and led the last of those campaigns, the only one that was successful. Next question, just how often should changes take place ? For also in recent years, 3 out of 3 of those coins have changed designs at least twice. Now I guess the question comes that is the one that really bugs people - what should the designs be changed to ? That is probably the most difficult question to answer because you are always going to get forty eleven different answers. And no matter what answer you settle on the majority of the people are not going to like it because they would have preferred something different. So what to do, what to do, what to do ? Personally, I gave up because the last time I asked we ended up with what I consider a mess that made me wish I had never asked. Which is why there is an old adage that exist that says - be careful of what you ask for, you just might get it. Never really understood that before, but I sure do now ![/QUOTE]
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