What do you think about the proposal to put different yearly reverses on Sac dollars?

Longacre

This is just a proposal in Congress at this point, and there is no guarantee that it will pass. To me it just seems like a way to fleece collectors even more. How many more new "products" do we need? This has nothing to do with helping to circulate dollar coins. It seems to me to be a clandestine revenue raiser for the Mint. What do you think of it? I am getting sick of all of these silly special coin issues.

Julian

Anything that is different is a positive for numismatics.

A different annual reverse will attract more people to the series, IMHO, similar to the different reverses on the platinum proof eagles.

I am all in favor of it.

SmallTownCoins

It could have made a good place to put a montage of the 4 President's wives for the next 10 years,
instead of the 1/2 oz golds....

COINB0Y

It could have made a good place to put a montage of the 4 President's wives for the next 10 years,

The (2) wife Presidents and the No wife Presidents would be good coins.

dbldie55

They should change the obverse to something pleasing. It still will not circulate, so the reverse will make no difference in that manner. They are just trying to get more people to collect them. (the design has nothing to do with getting them to circulate)

Pentimento

<< <i>It could have made a good place to put a montage of the 4 President's wives for the next 10 years,
instead of the 1/2 oz golds.... >>



Joke? Why would a montage of President's wives be a good reverse on the Sac dollar?

tyler267

I like the idea

PipestonePete

I have always felt that the reverse of the Sac is, by far, one of the better modern designs. They finally got one right.

holeinone1972

If they change the reverse, you better pony up and get the other pieces to the set, before they SKYROCKET. That is if you intend to collect them.

jhusman

I don't think that any changes should be allowed to the dollar coins until they circulate.

Longacre

<< <i>I have always felt that the reverse of the Sac is, by far, one of the better modern designs. They finally got one right. >>




I feel the same way. I actually don't think the obverse is half bad, either.

ziggy29

Our coinage needs a complete overhaul, but I'd rather see new permanent designs than a new design every year. State quarters, presidential dollars, special nickels...you can only go to that well so many times. How about just changing all the designs permanently? (Lincoln can stay until 2009, then the cent can be abolished.)

CoinHusker

"Oh, Canada..."

Kip

<< <i>If they change the reverse, you better pony up and get the other pieces to the set, before they SKYROCKET. That is if you intend to collect them. >>



Probably skyrocket for business strikes only though...
Kip

mrpotatoheadd

<< <i>To me it just seems like a way to fleece collectors even more. How many more new "products" do we need? This has nothing to do with helping to circulate dollar coins. It seems to me to be a clandestine revenue raiser for the Mint. >>

I can see how it could be more expensive for those who collect by type if one considered each new reverse as a different type, but since collecting a series by date seems to be the most popular way to collect, I don't think changing the reverse every year will cost most people any more money than they're already spending to keep their sets current.

TheRaven

We are doing the Presidental Dollars, just end the failure which is the Sac Dollars.....

The reverse is the good part of that coin anyways.....

Get rid of a PC trash obverse.....

291fifth

Ask the people in Equador. They are the only ones who actually use the coins.

Writersblock

<< <i>I have always felt that the reverse of the Sac is, by far, one of the better modern designs. They finally got one right. >>


I've always liked the Obv, and I think the rev is dull and boring and flat. I think it is artisticly on a par with the Lincoln Memorial cent rev, but better than the eagle reverse of the quarter.

BobGreene

These different designs every time you turn around really plays havoc with us type collectors. I had to make 2000 the ending date for my type set or every single issue would be a new type.

itsnotjustme

Maybe they could use a Statue of Liberty reverse and use a rotating front of dead presidents.

sumnom

I am getting sick of all of these silly special coin issues.

I completely agree. If this keeps going on, it will not enhance the hobby, it will kill it. More is not necessarily better. When the designs change so frequently it cheapens the coin and takes away from the dignity that attracts me to coin designs in the first place.

I am all for a circulating dollar coin but this proliferation of designs is an aesthetic crime.

sumnom

I spent a washington dollar the other day at a coffee shop. The cashier looked at and said, "Oh, this is the new one!" He paused, turning it over in his hands before exclaiming, "...and it still sucks!"

DNADave

<< <i>Anything that is different is a positive for numismatics.

A different annual reverse will attract more people to the series, IMHO, similar to the different reverses on the platinum proof eagles.

I am all in favor of it. >>





Didn't really help stamp collectors, did it?

sumnom

One reason I don't collect stamps is that there are just too many designs.

sumnom

Any news on this proposal?