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<p>[QUOTE="oval_man, post: 2467600, member: 22602"]Well, the argument against doing it was in the OP: to save money on dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>What really interests me about this question of dates on coinage is that it begins to expose how antiquated coins and cash in general will seem in the very near future.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't imagine anyone in my childhood (the '60s) questioning the existence of a date on a coin. Coins simply had dates; it was part of our analog reckoning of time. But as we become more fully digital as a society, it is inevitable that people such as the OP begin to question our traditions. Not long from now the idea of exchanging a few dirty pieces of paper and small discs of metal—with tiny pictures and slogans on them, fashioned from little sculpted dies—for some desired purchase will seem humorously quaint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins will go the way of George Washington's wooden dentures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="oval_man, post: 2467600, member: 22602"]Well, the argument against doing it was in the OP: to save money on dies. What really interests me about this question of dates on coinage is that it begins to expose how antiquated coins and cash in general will seem in the very near future. I can't imagine anyone in my childhood (the '60s) questioning the existence of a date on a coin. Coins simply had dates; it was part of our analog reckoning of time. But as we become more fully digital as a society, it is inevitable that people such as the OP begin to question our traditions. Not long from now the idea of exchanging a few dirty pieces of paper and small discs of metal—with tiny pictures and slogans on them, fashioned from little sculpted dies—for some desired purchase will seem humorously quaint. Coins will go the way of George Washington's wooden dentures.[/QUOTE]
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