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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr. Coin Lover, post: 626346, member: 16060&quot;]Let me reply to my own reply on a thread I started in the first place.&nbsp; I suppose it is not hard to realize all this is an issue to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>We had the Buffalo Nickel in our past. The mint does a silver version as a commemerative and &quot;boom&quot; big sellout with a handsome premium today.&nbsp; They do the Buffalo in gold, and &quot;boom&quot; extremely popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint starts the ASE, puts the Walking Liberty on the obverse. Highly successful coin in popularity.</p><p><br /></p><p>They do a gold coin this year to commem Saint-Gaudens. I&#039;m not into this coin myself, but I think it has been at least fairly popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point is the mint and whatever boards review all this are quite aware of the beauty of the designs on these older coins.&nbsp; So why don&#039;t they get some artists together and come up with some new and fresh designs for our coinage?</p><p><br /></p><p>A big part of the answer is once you put a dead president on a coin it is very difficult to get them off. I have no doubt if the Mint Director came out stating he wanted to change the dime or quarter taking off the two presidents he would be without a job.&nbsp; No politician in the House or Senate would want to touch a &quot;Hot Potatoe&quot; like that, there would probably be congressional hearings over it and their political career ruined.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another big part, sadly to say, is probably nobody except people like us really care.&nbsp; Sad because what is being produced now that collectors a generation or two will have to cherish as part of thier collections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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