Presidential Dollars?

orie

Where will these be minited? I'm planning to have a complete registry set, if I live long enough, and HOPE they're coming out of one mint.

19Lyds

I'm jusdt guessing here but these will more than likely be handled the same way as the State Quarters. 1 from Each mint. As far as Proof and Mint Sets go, maybe not. Perhaps the US Mint will have a different series of sets for these guys given the fact thea the Sac will still be produced and should fill that slot in the Proof and Mint Sets.

What ever happens, it will probably be interesting and without a doubt illicit much discussion on this board!

kiyote

I think the public is full and ready to reject two different dollar coins at the same time.

xbob

I don't know if it means anything or not about where they will be minted, but when I did the Philly Mint tour about 2 months ago there was someone doing precise measurements of the obverse die for a George Washington dollar coin. I wasn't aware of designs being finalized yet so perhaps it was for some kind of test.

kwmorgan

Somehow the idea of a Millard Fillmore dollar coin does not excite me. I plan on spending them. If they put these things in the proof sets, the sets will be huge and after 2008, the silver set will contain very little silver.

wayneherndon

There will be P and D circulation strikes and S proofs.

WH

CoinHusker

Same as the Sac's I assume.

Gemineye

I can hardly contain myself .........!!!!!

Numisone

The 2009 mint set will be the most interesting.

8 cents
2 nickels
2 dimes
2 quarters (maybe 10 depending on if the law ads the terrritories)
2 halves
10 dollars. (4 presidents from each mint, and a sac from each mint)

20 coins at a minimum, 34 if we get new state quarters.

kwmorgan

Yikes, you're right. That's a lot of "pot" metal.

BillJones

<< <i>Somehow the idea of a Millard Fillmore dollar coin does not excite me. >>



Actually Millard wasn't so bad. He did his best to try to solve that for which there was not solution without a war.

Now when you start talking about Pierce and Buchanan dollars, my eyes glaze over. Harding was a pretty bad president, but I bet he would have made a great drinking buddy.

And actually they should issue a Carter dime instead of a Carter dollar. His could should have less buying power than the others in honor of what happened to the value of the dollar duirng his administration.

Still here we go again. The mint is going to issue more crap to fill coin albums in the hope that collectors will continue to buy everything they issue to keep their sets up to date. It's getting ridiculous.

wayneherndon

Numisone,

Your math is off a little. It should be 26 and 34:

8+2+2+2+2+10=26
8+2+2+10+2+10=34

However, the various times legislation has been proposed for the territories, it has been for 6 pieces to be issued in 2009 (District of Columbia, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Midway, and US Virgin Islands). So the high number is more likely 36 pieces.

Note also that the Lincoln legislation requires a 2009 cent to be issued in the original 1909 metallic composition for numismatic purposes. Who knows how the Mint will fill this requirement. They could use the current design for this piece, produce the four quarterly designs in both metallic compositions, use the new 2010 reverse, or use some other reverse design or ???? The cent could be produced at all or some of the Mints and could be proof only. In any event, given design and metallic composition, there will likely be at least 5 different cents in 2009. Non circulating coins on alternative metals have traditionally not been included in Mint Sets (the 1976 three pieces sets being an exception of sorts) so this piece may not impact Mint Set composition. Notwithstanding, speculation about the highest number of possible pieces should probably consider it.

WH

orie

If the MS $'s come from P and D mint that will mean I won't have any trouble getting 10 coins together for a submission. It will be fun trying to get a high grade out of the batch, but don't see a way to break even after the cost of the slab. This isn't about money, it's about principle and being a collector in the true cents.

aficionado

<< <i>The 2009 mint set will be the most interesting.

8 cents
2 nickels
2 dimes
2 quarters (maybe 10 depending on if the law ads the terrritories)
2 halves
10 dollars. (4 presidents from each mint, and a sac from each mint)

20 coins at a minimum, 34 if we get new state quarters. >>



I wonder what the SILVER set will have. The Sac is not silver and the new dollars are supposed to be like the Sac., so those won't be silver. The way I see it, we'll have a quarter, a dime, and a halve dollar as silver. That's 3 coins silver and 10 coins NOT silver. !?!?!

Who's going to pay a premium for that?

I think they should switch the composition for the silver set and have the dollar coins as silver.

flaminio

<< <i>However, the various times legislation has been proposed for the territories, it has been for 6 pieces to be issued in 2009 (District of Columbia, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Midway, and US Virgin Islands). >>

Not Midway. Guam.

flaminio

<< <i>There will be P and D circulation strikes and S proofs. >>

Think we'll get both regular finishes and "satin" finishes for the P & Ds?

Conder101

Sure, regular finish on the circulation, rolls and bag coins, and satin finish on the mint set coins.

rec78

I think they should switch the composition for the silver set and have the dollar coins as silver

Yes the higher value coins should be silver. The current system of a silver half, quarter, and dime and a base metal dollar makes little sense...Why not just sell the silver half quarter and dime as a serperate set in itself? I buy these and the regular proof set also and always wind up with and extra cent,nickel and dollar coin. (i break them up and use them for update sets). JMHO. Bob

flaminio

<< <i>I think they should switch the composition for the silver set and have the dollar coins as silver. >>

They should also make the cents in the "silver" set be copper (at least 95%).