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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jaceravone, post: 400668, member: 9474&quot;]Last night I was sitting down with my Dad talking about the &quot;good &#039;ol days&quot; and all his trips to Vegas and how he used to be paid in silver dollars.&nbsp; Then I started thinking about how things have changed so much since he was a kid.&nbsp; Buffalo nickels were still in circulatation for a few years after he was born and stayed in circulation for many years afterward.&nbsp; Although the Standing Liberty Quarters had stopped a year earlier, he said that for many years afterwards, these coins were readily found in circulation.&nbsp; Mercury dimes were all that he knew for the first 15 years of his life before the Roosevelt dimes took over.&nbsp; My dad has seen three different halves circulate in his lifetime so far.&nbsp; And although, you don&#039;t find silver dollars in circulation anymore, it was everything he could do as a kid to get one from my grandma.&nbsp; And the stories of my dad grabbing a $20 gold piece that my grandma had stashed away were classic.&nbsp; I remember as a kid, my grandma saying that she had wished that she never got rid of her gold pieces.... and I wish that tooo.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><u>Will we ever see a major change of our circulating coinage in our lifetime?</u></b>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I know there are a few members out there that have been witness to complete changes in design, but I would imagine that most of us have not.&nbsp; Heck, Kanga has even seen the Large Cent in circulation (just kidding!!!!) Personally, I have been witness to the ever changing design of our $1 coinage, but I am not including that in my current question, but technically yes, I have seen new coinage in my lifetime.&nbsp; The IKE came out a year before I was born, then there was the SBA, Sac and Prez dollars.&nbsp; My question pertains to the cent, nickel, dime, quarter and half.&nbsp; I don&#039;t consider the state quarters a major change in design because they are still Washington quarters.&nbsp; Will we ever see the winged Liberty design come back? or better yet the Walking Liberty design?&nbsp; Will we ever see a Regan Quarter or Bush cent?&nbsp; (j/k on that last one!) or a MLK half dollar (why not?) </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Comments and observations are much welcomed![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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