Similar program to state quarters?

AmericanSilverEagleCoins

The 50 State Quarter program seems to be a success. A lot of people collect them even if they do not truely know how to handle and collect. What theme would you like to see next and on the reverse of what coin??

Putting it on a half dollar may spark more coin usage and the large size gives plenty of room for great details.

Maybe Superbowl, World Series, Stanley Cup and NBA Champs?

abuell

A series of Spiro Agnew commerative half dollars.

DesertRat

I think a series commemorating the victories of WWII or maybe the Medal of Honor recipients. The WWII generation is almost gone and we need to recognize their sacrifices and commitment to preserving our way of life. What better way than on our coinage?

richbeat

I think the 50 states quarter program is one of the best things that could happen to the hobby. While many will quibble over how good or bad the designs are, I think having more design variety in our change takes precedence. The Mint's primary concern is striking coins to meet the needs of the economy; how good or bad the designs are would be of secondary importance, at best. Sometimes designs are altered from their original concept in order to get them to strike up properly. And we're going to have new nickel designs, and possibly (hopefully) at least one new cent design coming up, so it's looking even better.

As for what themes and which denominations? We've just had a new dollar coin design, so that would really leave just the dime and half dollar, with the half dollar getting the nod for having more space. I'm not sure if there would be a big upswing in getting halves to circulate--many would be hoarded. Themes? Whatever says "USA." Native species of plants, trees, birds, etc.; landmarks--natural and manmade. Pop culture--whatever falls within the parameters of what can be used as a design.

MacCoin

I think all coinage should have a new commerative theme yearly. I've seen all the dead presidents I want to on my coins. put something new on ever coin that come out of the mint same for paper money lets have some real color.

AmericanSilverEagleCoins

<< <i>I think a series commemorating the victories of WWII or maybe the Medal of Honor recipients. The WWII generation is almost gone and we need to recognize their sacrifices and commitment to preserving our way of life. What better way than on our coinage? >>



WWII Medal of Honor winners may be too large to be practical. For WWII there are 464. Doing 5 per year like the state quarters, you would need 93 years. Even if you only concentrated on those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and received the award posthumously, WWII had 266. So unless you did some sort of collage with maybe 4 faces (something like a Mt Rushmore pose) of the posthumous MOH recipients on the reverse of each new coin with 5 coins per year, you would still take over 13 years to complete.

Of all MOHs given in all wars, there were 19 men who received 2 MOH in their careers. Maybe featuring a portrait of those 19 with a tribute coin to the single MOH recipients (19 potraits + 1 tribute = 20) would take only 4 years to complete.

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohstats.htm

mintluster

Sounds like a bunch of great ideas!!

BillF

I guess this might fall in the same category (number-wise) as the Medal of Honor recipients, but how about a series on the Women of Clinton?




Seriously though, maybe planets, great events in America (Pearl Harbor, WTC, etc.), something (pretty much) non-controversial. Presidents and other elected officials are by and large controversial. Very few actually made a positive change on America without being controversial. We'd something almost all Americans would be proud of, or at the very least, wouldn't get upset about. And, like the Susan B.'s, we wouldn't want something most people could care less about.


I can see it now, "I'll trade you two Pluto's and a Mars for Uranus. "

1957joe

I think it would be nice to show off our national parks on a half dollar would be great.

Senlathiel

How about great American people who _weren't_ presidents. Martin Luthar King, Harriet Tubman, who was it that said, "I have not yet begun to fight!"?, Eintstein, and I think Wright brothers should be on a circulated coin.

AmericanSilverEagleCoins

Space shuttles? Astronauts?