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Damn, Them New $1.00 coins sure are ugly...

mach19mach19 Posts: 4,002 ✭✭
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They will give the SBA a run for the money, No pun intended image
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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    I have a box of 1,000 waiting for my return to the US. After searching them, I'm sure I will be trying to spend 997 of them.
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  • coinman420coinman420 Posts: 4,666 ✭
    need i say anymore than this?


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  • 500Bay500Bay Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭
    I still have not seen one in person.

    What a waste of resources for the mint...
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  • tresgatostresgatos Posts: 531 ✭
    They could have done so much better...how about putting famous American authors on the obverse and a
    scene from one of their books on the reverse....might actually get people interested in reading the books...
    that coin actually hurts my eyes
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  • Snowman24Snowman24 Posts: 467 ✭✭✭
    I've spent 3000-4000 of these this year and most cashiers like them and think they are cool

    I've never heard anyone complain about the looks or even that they are 1 dollar coins

    maybe from a numismatic point of view - possible
  • BarbercoinBarbercoin Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭
    Cool, yes.

    Pretty, no.

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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    These are some of the most hideous coins ever made by the u.s. mint.
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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>These are some of the most hideous coins ever made by the u.s. mint. >>





    oh i don't know about that, i think suzy b trumps the prezzies!image
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  • oxy8890oxy8890 Posts: 1,416 ✭
    Yep, still ugly!
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  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    The Mint should just get it over with and put our favorite cartoon characters on our dollar coins. Start with Mickey Mouse and go from there.

    The Mint could package the coins with limited edition Comic Books and DVD's and literally make a mint on them. Think of the collector demand! image


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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,960 ✭✭✭
    I did not like them at first but the grow on you. The tone pretty quickly and some toning is actually attractive.
  • tychojoetychojoe Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭
    << I did not like them at first but the grow on you. The tone pretty quickly and some toning is actually attractive. >>

    I've noticed the same thing. As recently as a few hours ago, I unwrapped one I had stashed from my travels. Toning had a nice quality about it.

    Didn't care much for suzy b's either until one came my way with a nice patina on it.
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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What a waste of resources for the mint... >>


    Actually, the mint turns a fair profit on these.... and it return to the Treasury reducing the tax burden or defecit.



    << <i>The Mint should just get it over with and put our favorite cartoon characters on our dollar coins. >>


    I guess you mean Congress should pass Legislation requiring the Mint to do so. They produce these dollar coins per the Law, not becuase someone at the Mint says let's do it.

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,496 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about the crop for 2008?????

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  • pepupekpepupek Posts: 32
    They're fun to spend, just to see how people react to legal tender that they've never seen before...
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    I don't think there will be much variation from year to year. What can the engravers do with a portrait and all that text?

    Am I showing my age by using the word "engravers?"
  • tychojoetychojoe Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭
    I think they'll all be kinda' retro and nostalgic in a decade or two image
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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 8,574 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like spending them. There is only so much you can do with the portrait of an "old" man.
    But I do think that portrait of Van Buren is very well-crafted.

    Take a look here:

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  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Van Buren sure did have a wild do.
  • CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    The low relief doesn't serve them well, regardless of the design critiques. They'd make better parking tokens than coins IMO.
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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    If you realize what has been done to our stamps.

    They no longer look like U.S. Postage stamps. They

    now have Mickey Mouse, insects, dogs, flowers ect on them.

    I am afraid that our coinage is slowly moving in the same direction.

    Our coinage of today has no character, no beauty of design and is

    a disgrace to be considered coins of the Republic.
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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It sure would have been nice to have the date on the obverse side of the coin instead of the rim.
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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,496 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It sure would have been nice to have the date on the obverse side of the coin instead of the rim. >>




    2009 is just around the corner, your wish will be reality!!!!
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Whatchoo expect, with a bunch of old dead white men as subjects?

    How many handsome presidents have we had?

    They're cool, and I like 'em.

    Miss Sac is prettier, from an aesthetic standpoint, but these are pretty interesting and fun, for moderns. I like the return of a lettered edge to US coins.

    That's the first since, what, the Capped Bust halves?

    Give credit where credit is due. I doubt there is ANY coin in US history (Saint-Gaudens included) that EVERYBODY likes, from a design standpoint.

    We're all critics. That's both good and bad, I guess.

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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Van Buren sure did have a wild do. >>




    i agree, reminds me of larry of the stoogesimage
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