So the Jefferson is the next to go hu? What do you all think of this?
mrpaseo
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I reciently read that the Jefferson Nickle is the next to be changed, sometime in 2003.
I hear there is a 4 year plan and the Buffalo is comming back.
Ray
I hear there is a 4 year plan and the Buffalo is comming back.
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Ray
I like all nickels and am interested to learn what the new designs will look like. I can't think of one bad thing to say about changing the nickel design - at least not until I see the new design
Va. legislators want to keep their nickel back
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thomas Jefferson's home would stay on the reverse side of the nickel under a bill sponsored by Virginia lawmakers upset by a U.S. Mint plan to replace Monticello with a new image. "Monticello will once again resume its place on the five-cent piece," said Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., who sponsored the bill, with the backing of other Virginia lawmakers, that passed the House by a voice vote Monday. The legislation now moves to the Senate.
Cantor said he was shocked when U.S. Mint officials came to his office in June and told his staff of plans to change the image on the back of the nickel to commemorate the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition.
He said the plan was to replace Monticello, Jefferson's home outside Charlottesville, Va., with the image of an American Indian and an eagle facing westward. The image of Jefferson, who made the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and was the force behind the Lewis and Clark expedition, would remain on the front side of the coin.
Under Cantor's bill, Congress would recognize the redesign to honor the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark for the years 2003, 2004 and 2005. In 2006 Monticello would return to its permanent place on the five-cent piece.
He said that under his bill "the American people will not experience another Sacagawea debacle," referring to the dollar coin, launched with great fanfare two years ago, featuring the Shoshone woman who helped Lewis and Clark in their trip to the Pacific. Millions of the coins have piled up in banks and the Mint temporarily stopped making them because of lack of demand.
The legislation also would establish a citizens' advisory group, appointed by the president and Congress, to make recommendations to the secretary of the Treasury on any future changes to U.S. coinage.
there was some discussion of using another portrait of Thomas Jefferson for the obverse. If you can find a post by "lazerus" it's the same as his icon.
As for Eric Cantor, he's a complete jerk. Legislating a permanent figure on a coin is disgraceful to our heritage of coins in this country. His comments on Sacagawea are prejudicial and uninformed (for the reson of its failure).
I doubt seriously that the buffalo nickel will make any kind of comeback. Frankly, I prefer it that way. Are we so pitifully unimaginative that we can't come up with new designs? (I'm also an avid collector of buffalo nickels).
Hoot
Edited so i don't make a jackass of myself.
B.
A Tax is a fine for doing good.
but this doesn't seem practical to them. They have plans to continue the series after they get this 3 year commemorative thing out of the way but then we end up with a three year gap in our collections. There's just something about not having 1975PD quarters, halves and Ikes. They should be making mint and proofs sets with the Washington quarter but now we have goofed up
4 coin sets and 5 if you include the squaw dollar. Does anyone feel my pain?
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection