Posted on 09/19/2023 4:18:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
So, the Susan B. Anthony coin honored a “real woman”?!? Is that trans-phobic?
Any coin, just like any other “collectable” sold is guaranteed to not be a valuable collectable.
How many beanie babies and cabbage patch dolls are sitting in closets hoping to be valuable day?
I’d be glad to take any of those nasty old $3.00 and $4.00 ‘Big Failures’ off of anyone’s hands... Heck, I’d be willing to pay double their melt value.
Ha ha. I need one of those. Like the $3 Clinton bills.
It is certainly possible to mint $1 and $2 coins successfully, and even sometimes beautifully. Canada and the UK both have done so.
But the US mint is sunk in both wokeness and ugliness, and unless a new Auguste St. Gaudens or AA Weinmann shows up, we are kind of screwed.
At least St. Gaudens glorifies the American gold Eagle bullion coin. And Weinman glorifies the American silver Eagle bullion coin. The latest silver bullion coins sport classic designs by Morgan and Frazier.
Those two are beautiful coins. I think we should get politicians off the coins today and return to images of Lady Liberty and Native Indians.
Which is why I liked the Sacajawea design. It was return to both Liberty and Indians. I agree it’s time to remove presidents from our coinage.
The $2 bill never took off. Still around though.
I have one stamped with The Freedom Train from 1976.
Good one.
The first Susan B. Anthony dollars I saw were given to me as quarters at the local 7-11. This was 1978 or so when I was at LSU. I took them back, but the guy told me to keep them. He had gotten them as quarters from a customer. That’s one ugly coin. Maybe the original owner just wanted to get rid of them.
I thought it would be a good idea to have some roles of Sacajewea coins stashed in the truck for emergencies. I should have put them in strong plastic bags. They had gotten damp over the years and corroded, stuck together and covered in green gunk. I tried to clean them up to no avail.
I did get them unstuck. One of these days I’ll see if the coin machine at the store will recognize them so I can get my money back. Maybe a bank?
Take them to a bank. They’re still recognized as legal coins.
LOL!!!!!
Off the coins, and off our aircraft carriers.
The first politician to be on a coin was in 1909, 116 years after the first American coins. Second was in 1932, third in 1938, fourth in 1946, and fifth in 1964.
The duration of these coins has been very unusual - the cent hasn't changed in 114 years, the quarter in 91 years, the nickel in 85 years, the dime in 77 years, and the half dollar in 59 years. Such longevity in coin designs is unusual for the period 1793-1932, and it would be good to get all the politicians off the coinage and get back to Lady Liberty or historical figures.
I'd like to go to an Oldies But Goodies design.
For the one cent coin, assuming we really need it, go back to the Indian Head design.
For the five cent coin, assuming we really need it, go back to the Charles Barber design.
For the dime, I'm partial to the Seated Liberty design from the pre-Civil War era.
For the quarter, the Standing Liberty design had terrible relief and wore down quickly, so I'd go for the Barber design.
If he need a one dollar coin, I have no problem with the Sacajawea design.
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