Which design would you like to see return to circulation?

Dentuck

Which coin design would you bring out of retirement, to be struck in its original denomination, but in modern composition (copper-nickel or copper-plated zinc)?

Even with American bison running around on the occasional five-cent piece in pocket change, I'd like to see a return to the Buffalo nickel of 1913-1938.

Colquhoun

Wheat Penny, Buffalo Nickel, Mercury Dime, Standing Liberty Quarter, Walker Half.

relicsncoins

None, but I would like to see the mint come up with some inspiring new designs. Part of the appeal of coin collecting for me is to collect the obsolete designs. I think if you started seeing those designs show up in circulation again, it would cheapen those orginal designs. The one benefit would be that some of the original vintage coins would be spent mistakenly as moderns and then plucked out of circulation by us observant collectors.

JJ

N8

I would say my icon pic... but not in today's clad composition... 90% silver or nothing

cwazzy

I'd like to see the draped bust design on any denomination.

Chris

kwmorgan

I'd like to see Elizabeth Jones 1986-W half eagle Liberty gold design used for a new $2 dollar brass coin of the same size.

AU58WALKERS

anything with out dead people on it!

flaminio

None of 'em. Leave the past in the past.

Get some real artists and sculptors to create a coinage for the ages, and let the congresscritters, committees, citizens, and children be damned. Art for art's sake.

antonyfire

Liberty Cap (large cent) design.

Draped Bust.

Standing Liberty.

Rarity

Peace silver dollar in DCAM

ricko

New art.... leave the old RIP...... but art.. not dead guys... Cheers, RickO

Regulated

I would bring back the Three Cent Nickel just to mess with people.

DennisH

Any of the Flowing Hair denominations.

aballein

i agree with a few of the others...leave the retired designs alone, find some real artists and get creative. I dont want to see a 2008 mercury dime, wheat penny, buffalo nickel etc..etc..i want to see fresh designs, i mean sheesh, they did it back in the day whats stopping them from getting some talent in there now?

jhdfla

I'm with the folks who want something new and artistic, like St Gaudens did in his time. If I had to pick one from the past it would be hands down the Amazonian, which never made it past the pattern stage back then. That was an outstanding design.

John D'.

Texast

Bar Coppers

anoldgoat

Buffalo Nickel.

Colquhoun

I agree, if and its a big if.. the U.S. mint could turn out new fresh liberty designs.. I wouldn't want anything reissued.. in fact if I was in charge first thing I would do is hire Philip Nathan to design liberty obverses for all US coinage.

tightbudget

The High Relief Double Eagle...just to see how those wear down after the years...

Coxe

I too would like to see new, original designs come forth but using Liberty and not dead people.

Know what would be an appalling coin to restrike? Try the two cent copper struck with the original design in aluminum. The 200x dates would ice that cake. Shield nickels in aluminum too would be awful.

droopyd

<< <i>I too would like to see new, original designs come forth but using Liberty and not dead people. >>

RWB

None.

I'd prefer to encourage contemporary sculptors to make new designs, and encourage the mint to produce quality artistic representations, not flat-art cartoons.

RWB

PerryHall

<< <i>None.

I'd prefer to encourage contemporary sculptors to make new designs, and encourage the mint to produce quality artistic representations, not flat-art cartoons.

RWB >>

When the mint resurects old designs, they never look as good as the originals. The AGE is a perfect example.

EricSan

I don't want to see ANY old designs return - we've already seen them and if you like them, you should collect them. I'd rather see NEW designs - ones that don't feature dead people.

Eric

garsmith

Presidentail dollar!

Oh wait those are supposed to be in circulation now, funny I've never gotten one

Longacre

Is Whitman minting coins now, too?

If you combine Whitman with Heritage, they can truly take over the numismatic universe!

Dentuck

LOL... no, no, this was purely conversational, with my Whitman hat set aside for a moment.

Pandavab

I'd love to see some more artistic designs. A Lincoln cent or Jefferson nickel design is fine, but when nearly every coin type is a dead president, it gets a little dull. I'd like to see a return of Lady Liberty on some of our coins, and some new designs that look naturally attractive. If I had to pick a set of coins from the past to make a return, I'd probably go with:

Draped Bust Cent
Buffalo Nickel
Mercury Dime
Standing Liberty Quarter
Walking Liberty Half
Peace Dollar

I'd pick Morgan dollar, but that set is big enough already.

Zoins

<< <i>None of 'em. Leave the past in the past.

Get some real artists and sculptors to create a coinage for the ages >>

BrianKuszmar

I would like to see one Incuse design used for a collectors series...

BECOKA

The flowing hair cent.

Buffalo Nickel

Bust quarters and half dollars

Trade Dollars the size of the current dollar

Oh and bring back the high relief $10 and $20 Gaudens coins. None of this low relief junk on the current gold eagles. I like the Buffalo $50 though.

Shamika

Type 1 Buffalo nickel. And when I say Type 1, what I mean is that the design would have to have the same relief and not some dumbed down, easy to manufacture, piss-poor relief design.

slothman2000

Flying Eagle cent....what a great design...too bad it only lasted three years...

Shamika

<< <i>Flying Eagle cent....what a great design...too bad it only lasted three years... >>


Excellent idea!