What Was Your First Reaction To The SBA Dollar

Basically a woman who did not wear make-up. Bet if she had, she would have appeared much more attractive. Most older women sans make-up really look less attractive to many. Women don't seem to age as gracefully as men.

She was born in 1820 and probably around 50 when that photo was taken. An earlier photo was not so bad, but it was a head on shot and that would have not been so good for coinage. Plus she was known more for women's suffrage from age about 50-86 and the time-frame of 1869 through the 1870s was when I think she was most 'famous' for her activism. It did not help that she had that lazy eye (wonky).

Photography was in its early stages in the 1840s through 1870s so there is that, too.

 

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I was in high school and we didn't really get them in change or spend them.
If you can't circulate coins in New York, I guess it was doomed from the start.
No reaction because we never saw them. The first time was in the mid 90's in Colorado at work at a food vending area with a change maker. If you put in $5
you were stuck with 4 of these things and a dollar in quarters. I guess it was to encourage you to stick the SBA's into the vending machine. But since most people wanted 20 quarters, all it did was encourage us not to use the change machine for anything but dollars.

 

Like most, I thought the concept was interesting but the product was unattractive, wrong-sized, and had no chance of succeeding in commerce. Still, I assembled the complete set

 

I have a nice 1999-D AU found in a Coin Star.

 

couldn't ever figure out how the eagle has landed has anything to do with SBA ! O K design just totally misplaced ,size wise too, looked like a quarter , love the dollar coin idea ! they need go mid range little bigger but still smaller than a half! !

 

When I was in first or second grade our class put on a craft bazaar in the school gym. That was where I saw a Susan B for the first time. The first new coin design I ever saw. Then in third grade my parents gave me a proof Washington half for Christmas which was my second time seeing a new design.

 

What the hell am I talking about? I graduated high school in 1978.
I was thinking of the bicentennial. Sorry. Up to the H in Alzheimers.

 

Where I lived at the time, the SBA came and went so fast it barely left an impression.

 

FUGLY.!!!! And my opinion hasn’t changed ever. Made Ike look good at least that was the right size and had a decent reverse

 

love it if it's a coin!!

 

the Ike had the same reverse! !!! SORRY! !!

 

They don't know about the 20 cent piece, do they.

 

ain't that one tenth of a piece of eight

 

It's an ok coin to collect only!

 

A piece of 8 is 12 1/2 cents.
2 bits is a quarter.

 

affordable small set to put together some of the pieces have decent value as well . I like it as a collectors set. as for my other comment It seems I didn't know about the 20 cent piece !

 

My first reaction would be the same as the publics, rejection!

 

I was in the army in Germany at the time. The fed discovered rather quickly that the public wouldn’t use them.... So they were sent overseas for all us soldiers to use. I wasn’t particularly fond of the design.

 

But still much better looking than that monstrosity that replaced it. NOTHING--no matter how nice the design might look--can overcome that baby crap yellow color of the followup dollars.

 

Agreed totally