Why can't the mint....with Congressional approval and direction...
AUandAG
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do a series, for circulation, that is a duplication of existing 18th and 19th
coinage? Just change the date. That would be cool and collectible.
Imagine a half dime of 2011?
Half cents might be a problem.
A seated quarter dollar? Cool.
Could have fun with this. Perhaps even put Mint Marks on coins that
no longer have the mints up and running. CC's and nah, forget it.
bob
edited the title for obviouserrroers.
coinage? Just change the date. That would be cool and collectible.
Imagine a half dime of 2011?
Half cents might be a problem.
A seated quarter dollar? Cool.
Could have fun with this. Perhaps even put Mint Marks on coins that
no longer have the mints up and running. CC's and nah, forget it.
bob
edited the title for obviouserrroers.
Registry: CC lowballs (boblindstrom), bobinvegas1989@yahoo.com
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Not only that, but the dies for all those classic designs were destroyed long ago. Anything produced today would interpretations and most certainly would lack the relief and pazzazz of those old designs. If Congress were listening, I'm sure folks would be disappointed with what was eventually produced.
The name is LEE!
<< <i>The US Mint cannot do anything without Congressional approval which requires laws to be written.
Not only that, but the dies for all those classic designs were destroyed long ago. Anything produced today would interpretations and most certainly would lack the relief and pazzazz of those old designs. If Congress were listening, I'm sure folks would be disappointed with what was eventually produced. >>
Hmmmm, aren't you a barrel of laughs! Let's just reverse engineer a few and get some new dies made asap!
I bet we could counterfeit our own coins if we tried. After all, a few peasant Chinese can do so!
bob
<< <i>The US Mint cannot do anything without Congressional approval which requires laws to be written.
Not only that, but the dies for all those classic designs were destroyed long ago. Anything produced today would interpretations and most certainly would lack the relief and pazzazz of those old designs. If Congress were listening, I'm sure folks would be disappointed with what was eventually produced. >>
Best leave things alone. Can you imagine all the riders attached to the bill allowing the Mint to make the coins. We would be in deep mmmm what's the word I'm looking for here?
Ron
...no offense but i don't like the idea. just like i don't care for the silver eagles copying the walking liberty halves
likeness. it seems like laziness on design creation. jmo.
<< <i>The US Mint cannot do anything without Congressional approval which requires laws to be written.
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Congress cannot even get it's own act together - ie look at the huge budget deficit. How can you expect them to pull their craniums out of their rectums long enough to do something worthwhile?
Besides Congress panders to special interest group lobbyists like the ones for the copper plated zinc blank manufacturer for the US Mint.
Some of the past coins were inconvenient to use. For example the half dime, silver three cent and gold dollar were too small and were either replaced with something better or scrapped. Other coins, as you point out, like the half cent, would have no buying power today. Even in its time the half cent could not buy very much.
I think that it is better to leave the past in the past and collect it. We don’t need any more useless coins that have no purpose in the general economy. The mint is already making half dollars, Sacagawea dollars and presidential dollars that are of no use to most any one other than coin collectors. At a lot of us, who do collect, also do not have much use for them.