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Which series do you wish had continued longer than they did?

CheeseGuyCheeseGuy Posts: 191 ✭✭
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Many series it seems had hardly started before they were replaced. The most obvious ones in my mind are the peace dollar and the standing liberty quarter.
I like cheese, notes, and coins. In that order.

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,233 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Capped Bust Half Dime, short lived with only 9 years of production. The onset of the Seated coinage killed it in 1837 but it would be cool if it had been started earlier like the other Capped Bust denominations.
  • commoncents05commoncents05 Posts: 10,096 ✭✭✭
    Flying Eagle Cents.

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  • SilverEagles92SilverEagles92 Posts: 6,787 ✭
    Chain Cents
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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    double dimes
  • NowhereManNowhereMan Posts: 478
    Ikes!!

    If the dollar coin is basically going to be NCLT anyway (Like the half $), I MUCh prefer the large format to thre SAC/SBA size...

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  • Classof67Classof67 Posts: 1,502 ✭✭✭
    Kennedy halves........oh wait, never mind!

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  • CheeseGuyCheeseGuy Posts: 191 ✭✭
    Can't believe I forgot the Flying Eagles, one of my favs
    I like cheese, notes, and coins. In that order.
  • ColquhounColquhoun Posts: 545 ✭
    Ike.. the reverse of the Ike spoke of the times.. like no other coin before or since.

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  • oldcameoproofsguyoldcameoproofsguy Posts: 3,174 ✭
    I'm just glad that Lincoln cents are still going!
  • SunnywoodSunnywood Posts: 2,683 ✭
    Flying eagle cents and Gobrecht dollars - love that eagle reverse on both coins ...

    AND ... All of the series that preceded the onslaught of the parade of dead Presidents (plus Franklin) ... incidentally, Washington himself would have disagreed with replacing the SLQ with something in his own likeness. And what a huge step DOWN that was ... along with the Jefferson nickel, Roosevelt dime, Franklin half, and Ike dollar. Those coins are just AWFUL as compared with their predecessors.
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  • RTSRTS Posts: 1,408 ✭
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  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Franklins, to at least 1968.
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  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    Vermont coppers, but that dang Constitution seemed to get in the way.
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  • SeaEagleCoinsSeaEagleCoins Posts: 3,262 ✭


    << <i>Flying eagle cents and Gobrecht dollars - love that eagle reverse on both coins ...

    AND ... All of the series that preceded the onslaught of the parade of dead Presidents (plus Franklin) ... incidentally, Washington himself would have disagreed with replacing the SLQ with something in his own likeness. And what a huge step DOWN that was ... along with the Jefferson nickel, Roosevelt dime, Franklin half, and Ike dollar. Those coins are just AWFUL as compared with their predecessors. >>




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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Draped busts could have gone a few more years but I'm happy with the numerous hand-made die varieties

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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    Ikes! It would be cool if we had these today.... and think of the detailed Pres Dollars that could be done on this size coin (with 1 of 3 being an Ike).
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  • kwmorgankwmorgan Posts: 967 ✭
    Pratt's Indian Head $2.5 and $5 incused gold.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    High Relief Saints image

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  • fishteethfishteeth Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Draped busts with the small eagle reverse
  • PrethenPrethen Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭
    20-centers
  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Flying Eagle Cents. >>

    Definitely the fleagles. Although an argument could be made that if they had gone on for 25 or more years, they wouldn't be as special as they are as is.
  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Flying Eagle cents, Standing Liberty Quarters, Buffalo Nickles (should have kept that one indefinately) ...heck, with apologies to those who like and collect them, any of the series that were replaced by real people!
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  • ModernCrapNutModernCrapNut Posts: 2,086 ✭
    Anything that would have eliminated these forward facing portraits. Gargoyles.


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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Flowing Hair dollars, Twenty cents, Trade dollars.

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  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,085 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Standing Liberty Quarters, they had a pretty short run.
  • SottySotty Posts: 373 ✭
    Franklins. 43 years is way to long for the Kennedys.

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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sportsnight.

    For coins, twenty centers would have been cool.
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  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    I remember when Ike's where in circulation, used to get them for my allowance!

    It would have been nice if the Peace dollar series had run longer and had a stronger strike!
  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,680 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Flying Eagle Cents
    Gobrecht Dollars
    Liberty Standing Quarters
    Classic Large Cents
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  • beepbeep Posts: 968
    Flying Eagle Cents.



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  • TexastTexast Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭✭
    Peace Dollars, would have been nice if they had been issued in 1964 like they had planned...
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  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    The whole Seated Liberty Series. It would have been nice to go to the mid-90's.
    Tom

  • OKbustchaserOKbustchaser Posts: 5,546 ✭✭✭✭✭
    draped bust /skinny eagles...if the series had lasted more than one or two years maybe I could afford to complete my silver type and my half dollar year sets. As it is, I just can't justify the price of the quarter or either of the halves.
    Just because I'm old doesn't mean I don't love to look at a pretty bust.
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Gotta agree on the Flying Eagle cents. It was a pretty decent design, though all 19th century small cents sort of have an arcade token thing about them.

    I also agree on the 20 cent piece but for probably a different reason. I'd like to see it today. Get rid of the 1c, 5c and 25c. 10c, 50c (smaller) would be fine for minor coinage and a 20c would fit in fine too.

    I despise dead people on our coins, but I have to admit that Franklin was better than Kennedy, except for that cheesy statutory added eagle.
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