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Poll: Which one circulating denomination should be changed and what design would you use?

I would change the dime, since it has been around since 1946.
I'd put a flag on the obverse and both a dove and eagle on the reverse

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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,515 ✭✭✭✭✭
    change them all.

    Discontinue the cent and the half

  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,155 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nickel.

    Felix Schlag's original design.

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All of them.

    ........ said it many times:

    Discontinue the cent and nickel.

    Design a new miniscule copper dime. Design a new clad quarter with a smooth edge, slightly smaller than our current dime. Make a new reeded 50-cent coin about as big as our current nickel. Continue the small dollar with a new design. Make a $5 coin a little smaller than a traditional half-dollar and a $10 coin a little smaller than a traditional large dollar.

    Discontinue $1, $2, $5, and $10 currency denominations.

    Makes tons of sense, returns coins to their rightful place in commerce, and saves tons of money. All of the current designs are tired. Time to get back to an allegorical Liberty.
  • DeepCoinDeepCoin Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭
    I would agree for the most part with BryceM, except that I would also get rid of the quarter. If we use just dimes, halves and dollar coins, they would be analogous to the cent, nickel and dime of 1915. Clearly the most important thing is to eliminate the paper one dollar bill as it is a total waste of money printing them given their lifespan and duplication by the coin.
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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,432 ✭✭✭
    nickel-quarter denominations only
    retire the rest...just extra clutter in current commerce

    only if they return to high relief pieces of art
    restore the buff nickel (struck in copper)
    standing liberty quarter (struck in nickel)

    maybe a plastic obama cent...only if the cent is no longer considered a legal tender denomination...image
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's an electronic, plastic and paper reality when it comes to Spending, coins are an annoying PITA to use. Reality.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    .....I DO though think a fully circulating $20 coin would be found by many to be very useful. About like in the 40s when three half dollars in your picked you'd make it through the day. Make the $20 coin BiMetallic and smaller and thicker than a quarter. Put an eagle on it and bypass the dead president question.
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    as a group we tend to think wrong.

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Change is good, some of it is better.

    Keep the better stuff.
  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    While $3 gold pieces do not actually circulate, a $3 bill seems awfully appropriate nowadays. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will soon be dropping them from helicopters. image
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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The quarter. Enough with the quarter nonsense. Some rendition of Liberty (not the statue) on the obverse and a waving American Flag on the reverse.

    Instead of "United States of America" I would have "The United States of America." Lastly a law that would prevent any change to the quarter for
    137 years with the exception of a Tri-centennial 1776-2076 one year only circulating issue.

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  • DaveWcoinsDaveWcoins Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭
    Do the dollar, but this time do it right.

    Forget the Chuck E. Cheese tokens we have now for $1 coins that nobody uses.

    Make it multi-sided (8 sided, or??) (and maybe a different color metal) so no one can confuse dollar coins with any other denomination. Not too big -- maybe a little bigger than a quarter.

    The hell with the vending machine industry. They will just have to adapt their machines to work with the new coins, not the other way around.

    Then discontinue the dollar bill.

    This would work, and it would save enormous amounts of money for US taxpayers.
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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 17,469 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Being a collector, I shouldn't say this but why do we really need any denomination in change? Rounding out to the nearest dollar would be just fine (I think anyway). Todays dollar is yesteryears 10c. Mostly anything that's a $1.00 is considered a cheap deal. So in saying that, why do we need a penny, nickel, dime, quarter or half-dollar?image

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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I voted all their time is past it's all in the clouds now.
  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,266 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are so many horror stories about credit cards being "hacked" that cash is going to be around for a long time.

    Like just about everyone else, I believe that the cent should be eliminated.
    I don't keep cents any more, except for pre-1981 copper ones.
    The stores around here have small plastic bins for unused cents as "donations".

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
    change the dime and half. the half is really boring and old looking (discontinue the dollar instead of stock piling it where ever they can, jmo)
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,556 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>change the dime and half. the half is really boring and old looking (discontinue the dollar instead of stock piling it where ever they can, jmo) >>



    Was waiting for this or similar post. image

    We've redesigned the cent, nickel, quarter and dollars already.
    The only change left "circulating" for this long is the dime. Why change now ? Some things are better left undone or re-done.

    Enough is enough already. Just make the dime out of silver. We got enough to call it about a 2 buck piece.
  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    It is likely we will not agree to discontinue the cent because of the tax implication. We should make it about half its current size to reduce the cost of manufacture. I would prefer all of our coins were adorned with an allegorical image of liberty along the lines of Helvetia, Marianne, Italia Turrita, etc.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree with BryceM..... and for the coins we keep or add...please, please make them artistic and not PC or commercial....Cheers, RickO
  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Is a $5 coin easier to counterfeit than a $5 bill? I seem to recall hearing about bunches of counterfeit Sacagaweas in Panama.
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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    a non-cash society is a fantasy and any "redesign" or changes in size should be sensible, a reduction in size seems unlikely to take place at any time, especially since we are probably faced with CuNi as the most realistic alloy. it has proven its durability.
  • TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭
    Drop Lincoln from the cent and create a "Members of US Congress" series.
    No one will want them and they'll be thrown in the trash and eventually the cent will be eliminated.
  • KudbegudKudbegud Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Change the dollar coin to ringed bi-metallic and retire the dollar bill

  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nickel, since there's a law that the Monticello reverse can't be removed.
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,758 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Nickel, since there's a law that the Monticello reverse can't be removed. >>



    That reverse is beyond tired, and was not good from the beginning, because it is flat and looks like a trolley car. The mint had to name the building across the top for a very good reason. If they had not named it, even Jefferson might not have recognized it.

    We should tell Virginia to go pound salt. If the reverse of the nickel is all that is keeping their tourism going, they are in trouble.
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