Possible Commemorative issues for the next few years

aRabidChipmunk · March 11, 2004 3:59AM

I was poking around the U.S. Legislative web pages to see what commorative bills have been proposed.

I'm not sure on the exact status of all of these, or even if some of them are still alive and kicking, but here is a list of some of the proposed commemoratives:

2005
Marine Corps 230th Anniversary
Chief Justice John Marshall
Davy Crockett

2006
San Fransisco Old Mint
Old Man of the Mountain
American Veterans Disabled for Life
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt (of special note here, 2 versions...one of which is designated to have the $20 St. Gaudens reverse)

2007
Jamestown 400th Anniversary

2008
Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial (I also saw this one listed for 2005, most recent bill was for 2008 though)

2009
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Those were the majority of the ones that I saw listed.

So, what are your opinions on which ones you would prefer?

mdwoods · March 11, 2004 4:07AM

Some good ideas. I'd like to see commems for Henry Ford, Walter Reuther, Civilian Conservation Corp and for the states that never had commems when they were making them in the "old" days.

CalGold · March 11, 2004 4:07AM

The one they are missing is one for 2005 celebrating the people voiting George Bush out of office.

CG

flaminio · March 11, 2004 4:11AM

<< The one they are missing is one for 2005 celebrating the people voiting George Bush out of office. >>

F'in' troll. Why'd you go and take a perfectly nice commem thread and politicize it?

relayer · March 11, 2004 4:17AM

The Old Man of the Mountain is already on the quarter and doesn't Ben Franklin already appear on a coin?

CalGold · March 11, 2004 4:26AM

<< Old Man of the Mountain is already on the quarter >>

Not only that but it doesn't even exist anymore. It fell of the cliff.

Lets look at some of these other brilliant ideas.

The 230th anniversary of the Marines. Who ever heard of commemorating the 230th anniversary of anything?

The SF Mint. Still empty. Still in need of millions of dollars of seismic up grades.

Disabled Vets. Thats timely, and sadly we can thank Mr. Bush for those disabled in Iraq. Oh, gee, there I go politiczing this thread again. Shame on me.

I like Mdwoods idea about Henry Ford and Walter Reuther--the appropriate design motif would be Mr. Ford's goons beating the living daylights out of Mr. Reuther and his fellow union organizers.

TR with the St. Gaudens reverse. Once again reusing an old design as if we have no living artists who are capable of fresh new designs.

John Marshall: You'd have to remind most people who he was.

Davy Crockett: OK, every American boy played Davy Crockett as a kid. He had the guts to stand against the deportation of the Cherokee and Choctaw (the so-called trail of tears). It cost him his seat in Congress.

CG

mdwoods · March 11, 2004 4:27AM

I wish they would make the commems higher relief. It's not like they really need to stack them. I'd like to see a series of commems on US ships that are/were named the Constitution.

meos1 · March 11, 2004 4:30AM

How about a BSA commem? Nothing huh. I have yet to find anyone interested in that idea. Maybe If I asked about a haliburton commem.

cosmicdebris · March 11, 2004 4:37AM

I know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about we celebrate the 15 Billionth Anniversary of the Big Bang

Or how about 700,000Th Anniversary of the Discovery of FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!

Or 225Th Anniversary of Capitalism ( Bling! Bling! )

newsman · March 11, 2004 4:53AM

<< I'd like to see a series of commems on US ships that are/were named the Constitution. >>

That would be a short series, since there's only been one. Officially, the original USS Constitution is still a US Navy ship, which means the name has never been available for use by another naval vessel.

mdwoods · March 11, 2004 4:56AM

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<< I'd like to see a series of commems on US ships that are/were named the Constitution. >>

That would be a short series, since there's only been one. Officially, the original USS Constitution is still a US Navy ship, which means the name has never been available for use by another naval vessel.

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Oh.

flaminio · March 11, 2004 5:01AM

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Oh. >>

Still would make a great coin, tho'. I've always been partial to ships on coins.

cosmicdebris · March 11, 2004 5:23AM

Hey isn't the 35th Anniversary of Watergate soon?

mdwoods · March 11, 2004 5:36AM

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Oh. >>

Still would make a great coin, tho'. I've always been partial to ships on coins. >>

Maybe I was thinking of the Enterprise. Have there been several USS Enterprise's?

cosmicdebris · March 11, 2004 5:49AM

Numismanic · March 11, 2004 5:54AM

Yeah! a Star Trek commemorative. The motto can say "Beam me up Scotty"!

mdwoods · March 11, 2004 6:05AM

I did some checking. There have been 8 USS Enterprise's in the US Navy. That would make a nice set of commemorative coins.

edsondl · March 11, 2004 6:36AM

Be sure to include the First Space shuttle in that Enterprise list and that would be a very nice set of coins, if done correctly and with adequate relief.

Get the Perth mint to design them and the water and ships would look very nice in Proof, or reverse proof, or a combination of the two.