What could the US Mint do to make you happy?

One thing the US Mint could do to make me happy would be to reissue the Standing Liberty Quarter and stop with the stupidity of State Quarters already!!:yes:

Also, for anniversaries maybe they could issue a real silver coin for circulation! What do you think? Even 40%!!

I wrote this for discussion only, I don't know if the US Mint ever bugs you with things they do but we already suffered thru the State quarters and now it's the ATB series. Sure some ppl are happy but it doesn't do anything for me. Also, just to clear things up this is for discussion only, I'm not trying to trash quarter collecting. Just for discussion only. :smile

 

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Well, I'm happy already, but I would like to see the portrait of Liberty featured on circulating coinage. It's non-controversial, unlike political figures.

I personally don't think the "40% for circulation" idea would work. There would be a public frenzy to pull them out and melt them down; since intrinsic value would exceed face value, there's no way they would circulate.

As they already do plenty of beautiful silver as bullion and proofs, I'm happy with their release of silver.

 

Fire the designers and engravers and hire people who have better ideas that are actually worth being put on U.S. Coins. REDESIGN THE PENNY!!! LOSE LINCOLN!!! REDESIGN THE DIME!!! AT LEAST CHANGE ROOSEVELT!!!

 

Food for thought.

They could limit the number of finishes & metals with which they manufacture our coins. I’ve recently been putting together a complete set of 2009 coins & it includes something like 80+ different coins now. There are four cents and each of them is available in proof finish, satin finish and business strike finish. I heard rumor that the mint made some copper cents & some copper coated zinc in some year(s). There are a similar bunch of nickels, dimes, quarters, quarters, quarters, quarters, quarters, halves, & dollars. All these are available in proof manufacture, mint set satin finish, and business strike finish. We have silver proofs & clad proofs (and those include all the darn quarters). It adds up to a crazy number of coins to get one of each type made by the mint. The cost of the collection & number of coins increases significantly if you include all the gold coin variants. I sort of long for the old days when the options were simply either proof manufacture & business strike for our circulating coinage.

 

I agree with you whole-heartedly! All this commemorative stuff is nice and all, but it's just to diverse. I like the SLQ design too.

I might agree on the dime statement, but I really think Lincoln's place should be the penny for years to come, or at least as long as the penny is produced

 

"What could the US Mint do to make you happy?"

Stop with the clip-art designs of today, and start making coins with nice designs like we used to in the early 20th century. Think Buffalo Nickel, Mercury Dime, WL Half, Peace Dollar, etc.

 

I wish they would let, " We The People " decide on and vote for what WE want. I for one am tired of looking at Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Washington, and Kennedy. Only one of these people is worthy of being on a coin anyhow, its time for change...

 

I think the government should drop the penny and make the other coins out of coated steel like Canada does, also they should slowly change out the designs on the coins starting with puting Reagan on the dime.

 

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Take it from an old moderns circulation collector since the 70's that went through the boring decades which held few new types, this is collector heaven. My only complaint might be too many new designs, but I scold myself whenever that thought comes into my mind. Whether the complaints are from me or others, I try to remember that its "raining pennies" and nickels and quarters and dollars "from heaven" (maybe not new dimes or halves) and I can choose to grumble under my umbrella or I can keep my umbrella upside down in order to catch all I can.

 

Silver is way to volatile to use in a circulating coin because the mint would need to keep refining the amount of silver in the coin and it would be noticeable to the public at large how much the dollar is dropping and that's the kind of thing they like to keep behind closed doors.

 

The Camel is a Horse that was Designed by a Committee

First of all, we would need to remove the government monopoly on coins. Is anyone asking what the Federal Department of Shoes would have to do to make us happy? Can you imagine a Federal Shower Curtain Agency?

Here are some links to medals. Of course, to be coins, such designs would have to meet the standards set by Ireland's poet laureate T. S. Eliot when he helped select the artists who created the coins of the new Republic of Ireland: "they must pitch and spin to please the gambler, and stack to please the banker." So, these designs must be made stackable.

But realize that no Citizen's Coin Committee or politically appointed Secretary of the Money made these decisions. See here:

Medal Collectors, an ANA club founded by David T. Alexander
http://www.medalcollectors.org/

American Medalic Sculpture Association co-sponsored with the ANA and had an exhibit in Colorado Springs.
http://www.amsamedals.org/

The international society of medalic arts and artists....
http://www.fidem-medals.org/

... also partnered with the ANA
http://www.money.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NumismaticEvents/FIDEM/default.htm

This commercial site sells medals. The markets say that these are popular designs.
http://www.finemedals.com/
Likewise: commercial and therefore popular medalic art designs.
http://www.historicalartmedals.com/

OK, Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" comes to mind. And we would have to agree that those were America's "glory days." Classical art stands at attention, its heels together, each one like the next, predictably, because of the rhythmic repetition of an implied basic unit: armies are made of privates. Classic art might have been appropriate to the Greeks or Romans, but for America, it was always copycat art. Augustus Saint Gaudens cribbed the design of his Liberty from the Nike of Painios and more here , which was excavated when he was studying art in Europe. It is not original. Is that your vision of America, a copy of Rome, which was a copy of Greece?

President Theodore Roosevelt, the progressivist Rough Rider who swung the Big Stick of government to interfer in private business thought that the greatest coins ever made were Greek and he got ASG to make more just like them... and then came Weinman... and McNeil... Meanwhile FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and Carlo Bugati, and the Tiffany Studios were exploring new frontiers -- which is what America is really all about: exploring new frontiers.

A hundred years ago, no one collected by Mint. Branch mints were not visible to the collecting public. If you wanted one of each year, and if you got a CC or and S, you did not care too much one way or the other. Then, it mattered. Myself, I do not care about the finishes of proof coins. However, if you do, then realize that this is your passion. If hte Mint limits this, then everyone will have one of everything and your collections will not be special.

I agree that even the clad silver strikes up better than nickel. (Nickel is almost as good as silver... almost, but not quite.) At $25 per ounce, a 40% Kennedy half is worth over $3.50. A coin that size 40% would circulate as a $5 piece until silver hit $33.80. As commemoratives, proof only, that would not be so much of a problem. The thing is that the Crime of '73 hinged on the fact that the government originally thought that a silver dollar should have a dollar's worth of siliver. When silver continued to plummet, they then recognized silver as a cheap, inflationary mediium, nominally of some good value as a floor. That floor lasted 90 years. But the astronomical output of cheap tokens (half dollar, quarter, dime even nickel) to pay for World War II was possible only because silver was about 30 cents per ounce. Thirty years later, when those War Bonds came due, the govenrment paid off with money even cheaper than silver.

Just to say, silver commemorative are nice, but circulating silver would be too tight a leash on the monster.

 

I hear you loud and clear!! :yes: Let's vote on it! Congress is doing lousy on the coin issue!!

Hell I'd be happy with the reissue of the Buffalo, the real Buffalo nickel not that Bison of 2005!! Also, the Mercury Dime! Yeah, they could reissue all the old designs and I'm sure alot of ppl would be happy to see those designs again!!:thumb:

 

I agree with all you guys but is there anything we can actually do about it?

 

I wish they would print more eagle type of coins that are not in gold, thats where my collection is from but just dont have the money for anything above silver

 

Amen Brother.... From my earliest days, as a collector in the sixties, I was limited to narrow offerings that the mint would provide. Today, I'm overwhelmed, but as you state, I can pick and choose. Marvelous times for an commemorative collector....

 

I'm okay with quarters, bu the half dollar needs the special reverses. Although we probsbly won't be seeing lady liberty on circulating coinage anytime soon, but I think we should trash the Sacagawea and touch up the old flowing hair design and put it on the dollar. it would be basicly the same design, just touched up with more detail, and on a small sized golden dollar.

 

I think the Dollar coin legislation has us locked in for a few years to come....unless they decide to start another issue....

 

The US Mint should hold Customer Appreciation days, offer coupons for repeat/regular customers and even do some promo contests.

 

Newest Numismatic News (10/19/2010) well my newest anyway. has a bit of exciting news for us "Classic design Lovers"!! The House of Representatives have authorized a palladium bullion coin, 1 oz. that would have as its obverse the A.A. Weinman Winged Liberty design that used to be on the dime popularly called the Mercury Dime 1916-1945! Senate has to concur. The reverse will be a high relief design. Face value to be $25 even though an ounce of palladium is currently worth $589. designated face value is intended to give the coin legal tender status only, not to serve as an indicator of actual value.
Steve

 

Yeah I read about that, but I wish they were going to make fractionals