Are we doomed to one sided design changes in perpetuity? Who next?
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It just dawned on me that all recent “permanent “ design changes have been one sided, with the exception of the innobuck which continues the one side change tradition going forward.
We saw the quarter ‘99 revamped each following year, then Jefferson suffered the same fate in 2004, 2005, settling in 2006, followed by Lincoln in ‘09 with the Shield in 2010.
I am sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop with Roosevelt or Kennedy. The dime has been unchanged for a long run!
If the trend on one sided alterations continues, who is next?
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Are we doomed to one sided design changes in perpetuity? Who next?
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I'm not gonna hold my breath but it would be close to a miracle if the mint went retro and used a classic design with exciting motion and details galore. Peace Roy
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I believe that eventually our coinage needs to be 100% revamped. it just makes sense because right now all the ideas coming out of the Mint aren't about facilitating commerce, they are about selling coins and coin sets to collectors.
the lowly Cent is really not necessary and actually costs money to produce.
the Nickel is close to the Cent.
the Dime is useful but the size is just too small.
the Quarter is the undeniable workhorse but its design has become little more than a commemorative canvas.
the Half-Dollar is struck and stored.
the Dollar is a combination of the previous two: a commemorative that is struck, stored and circulates in foreign countries.
I really never use change anymore. I probably use 50/50 debit card and cash. coins facilitate change with Merchants but I never really use it. when I get home it goes into jars till it gets cashed in. if we had larger, more sensible denominations I might use it but not as it is currently denominated.
There are some signs of action but I’ve never seen collectors mobilized to contact Congress.
While I agree with @keets post in general ... I think we will see a new design first. It is unlikely (not impossible) that it will be the dime (Presently a political icon), it could be the half dollar. The memory of the assassination and his Presidency has long faded, plus he would be totally out of favor in his party today. So this could be the next change... plus, it is not really circulating coinage (though it does occasionally).
So sick and tired of looking at Roosevelt, Kennedy, Lincoln, and Jefferson. Not a single artistic or creative mind at the mint.
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Someone should get this on the radar of some of the politicians proposing sweeping changes now.
Sad but would not trust them to come up with something new.
I see Kennedy reverses before roosevelt.
Reverses highlighting achievements would be nice. New Deal, Gettysburg address, crossing the Delaware, space exploration to name a few.
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Wishful thinking. I think maintaining the obverse design lets them skirt the "time in service" requirement for coin designs. That still exists right? 15 years or something?
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Ill be watching for a new design on something just not sure what yet. fwiw at this time
The last thing we need is help from a politician.
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Time to end the cent and the half. Pointless coins.
circulating coinage isn't meant for commemoration, there is a separate class of collectible coinage with a long history dedicated to that. allowing the SHQ's to be issued, though good in the effect it had on our Hobby, has become a cancer that has spread to every denomination.
actually, each of our current circulating coins is based on commemoration going all the way back to 1909.
A $2 and $5 coin would be nice in my opinion.
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You didn't include the most likely one.
The quarter.
In the ATB law is a clause that states a second round of 56 ATB quarters can be issued after the current program ends.
Is congress dumb enough to do this? (Is that a rhetorical question?)
We were doomed when spaghetti hair started. There is no hope for future coins designs.
If I had my choice (which I don't) I would leave the Cent and Nickel alone and make the Dime, Quarter & Half a totally new design and all the same like the Barber and Seated era. The obverse should be a new and classic looking LIBERTY and the reverse should be a strong and forceful Eagle.
But we will never see this....so I basically wasted my time typing this.
Eventually....sooner or later....The current cent and nickel will be viewed as too expensive to produce. (The facts say they probably are already. It's the "view" that needs to catch up).
At that point, the easy decision would be to remove the cent, and create a cheaper nickel. That could drive metallic changes in the clad coinage as well.
Once you've decided on THAT, there might be agreement to make design changes too. Right now, there just isn't any momentum or interest in changing the existing designs, (for political, laziness, and other reasons).
The other option is that coinage goes away completely, and we store our money on a smart phone.
That was the problem with starting to put Presidents on our coins... very difficult (if not impossible) to then change the design.
Before, with Lady Liberty on the, design changes were not as controversial and certainly not political as we were just replacing Liberty with Liberty.
But not that we have presidents on the coins, there will be opposition, strong political opposition to whoever you suggest removing/replacing. Just isn't going to happen. The only way I can see it happening is if there is legislation to remove all presidents from the coinage and replace all of them with Lady Liberty again.
But to just try to remove any one of them for a design change, especially if the replacement is another president, just isn't going to happen.
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What coin design are you referring to?
I’m so tired of the mint’s numismatic ADD. If they want to increase general collector interest they should deliberately create small batches of error coins and release them into the wild. But I suppose that wouldn’t be the revenue driver that all these new commemoratives bring. I hate the new obverse design of the Jefferson nickel.
@Wahoo554 Mostly the Washington Quarter. The hair design changed in the 1990's to a spaghetti looking design. It just shows how the coins are moving more modern looking as the years progress. We will never have the coins we saw in the '40's and before.
Ain't that the truth.
Even if you convinced the Mint to do a, say, Seated Liberty design again, the chances are it would look like a cartoon rendition of the original anyway.
We need a significant currency reform but doing anything meaningful would require a President with the political will and political capital to shepherd through the necessary laws. Right now it isn't feasible.
There's an interesting old interview with the new Chief Engraver, Joe Menna, where he says part of the design problem is due to a technical issue that comes from collector demand for proof coins. Basically, there needs to be a sharp distinction between the mirrored fields and the frosted devices for the dies to be polished properly, and that means subtle detail gets lost before the design phase. The reformed issues of the early 20th century also had problems with proof finishes, but the actual designs were the best that American coins have ever been. The tail's wagging the dog.
Here's the interview, the relevant part starts at 6:54.
We need another Teddy Roosevelt. I don’t mind the new shield reverse for pennies, though it isn’t anything special. I’d love to see lady liberty make a comeback, though I fear she would look cartoonish.
On a side note
I think it would be interesting if they made mint specific designs. For example, a different design on one or both sides exclusively produced at each mint. It would open a flood gate of new designs and at minimum double circulating designs. Good or bad idea, it might be interesting.
Or if they did various tiny “New Deal” reverses on dimes.
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Why do we have to have frosted devices anyway?
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The designs, denom, size need compl work over instead of being stuck in something which became obsolete decades ago.
He looks like a planet of the apes character on that nickel
A completely new design will come first
I would like to see another would be classic like Buffalo nickel
If I had my choice (which I don't) I would leave the Cent and Nickel alone and make the Dime, Quarter & Half a totally new design and all the same like the Barber and Seated era. The obverse should be a new and classic looking LIBERTY and the reverse should be a strong and forceful Eagle.
I agree with Dimeman's idea, and the only caveat that I would add is to make money great again by revaluing the dollar and reverting back to the classic compositions for all denominations, and to include circulating silver dollars along with circulating gold coinage.
And as Dimeman also said, we will never see this and I'm wasting my time typing it.
I knew it would happen.
I for one would love to see the Dime redone completely. The dead President motif just doesn't work anymore and they need to do something, anything different.
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A hexagon or decagon silver composite dollar would be awesome, and be different enough to separate from quarters if the size was similar to SBA Sac Pres
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The one thing we all seem to agree upon is that we're sick & tired of our un-artistic and continually changing circulating coinage.
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The one positive about the constantly changing coinage is that average Joe’s are less likely to notice when wheaties and buffalos and other past designs are in circulation which increases the odds for collectors like us to find them in change.
It's all but guaranteed that ANY new design will be 100% politically correct and dull. So if those are the only permissible choices, I'd rather they leave things as-is forever
Here is another response. Be happy with what you ate getting. When I started collecting in 1960, there had been The Lincoln Memorial reverse introduced in 1959, which was the first change in 50 years for the design. Prior to that, there was the Franklin Half Dollar in 1948. Then came Kennedy in 1964, which killed the half dollar as a viable coin in the economy. There were no commemorative coins, just new medals, which did not grab the interest of many collectors. Then there was Ike in 1971.
If you follow my drift, we are now in a golden age for now coins, although I would that it is more like an overblown age because there is more new stuff than we want or have the funds to buy. If you bought every new coin the mint issues in a year, you would need to spend over $30,000. It’s been like that for a while.