Is there a “smart phone” commemorative coin in our future?
RogerB
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Edited from BBC:
“A typical iPhone is estimated to house around 0.034g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and less than one-thousandth of a gram of platinum. It also contains the less valuable but still significant aluminum (25g) and copper (around 15g). Smartphones also contain a range of rare earth elements – elements that are actually plentiful in the Earth’s crust but extremely difficult to mine and extract economically – including yttrium, lanthanum, terbium, neodymium, gadolinium and praseodymium.”
“Recycling one million mobile phones could deliver nearly 16 tons of copper, 350kg of silver (11,253 T oz worth $184,437), 34kg of gold (that’s 1,093 T oz worth $1,420,900) hand 15kg of palladium.”
Will we one day have a completely recycled commemorative honoring ‘smart phones’ and computer components?
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There are more smart phones than there are "smart" phone users.
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My initial response would be 'No'....however, with the direction the Mint seems to be taking, and after giving it some thought... probably.....I am no longer surprised by Mint offerings...Though I do blame our congress more so than the Mint...after all, that is where it all comes from.... Cheers, RickO
Well I'll be darned. If the U.S. mint does make one we won't be first....
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-Ellan-Vannin-MOBILE-PHONE-TECHNOLOGY-rare-Isle-of-Man-1-one-pound-coin-AA-/132562515001?hash=item1edd577439
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I remember when we used to put the coin in the phone and then....
for a brief 3 minutes like an auctioneer.....
Now we're putting the phone in the coin and we can
unlimited.
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I see a D Carr coin. He buys metal from a recycler of only cell phone metals, makes blanks, makes an uber cool design, with a very limited mintage
I don't really care. Unlike others, I don't need or want to have a phone strapped to me at all times. I don't even like answering my "landline".
For those of you who don't know what a "landline" is, I ain't gonna tell you.
Look in the history books.
Pete
If I didn't have kids I'd throw mine in the river.
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I thought about commissioning an iPhone 10th anniversary coin by Dan Carr but then I also wanted to distribute it at an event like the Apple conference to call it a So-Called Dollar. Never got around to it but still thinking of modern So-Called Dollar ideas.
I love my smartphone. It's got a better camera than my actual camera, although it has almost no zoom capability. When my tv died in 2016 I watched TV on it for over a year...now that I have a new TV I can watch two games at once....or at least keep aware of what's going on.
What I don't use it for is talking...I don't like talking on the telephone to begin with, and I don't give the number out to anyone. I actually keep my "stupid phone" for talking.
I only got it in early 2016 and it's one of the best gifts I've ever received.
I guess the Apple one would be a "So-Called iphone Dollar" -- ?
NO. A "So-Called iPhone Dollar Dialer" it is.
Pete
Good one! I'd better call someone on my flip phone to tell them --- right away --- as I'm hiking down this steep trail above the cany..........
I quit if the do.
Could be one of the coins in the Innovation Dollar Series. In what state was the mobile phone developed?
Get out the crystal ball....I see the US mint teaming up with the US currency mint to produce something to commemorate the decline of coinage and paper money, and celebrating the explosion of virtual technologies, smartphones, people jabbering away constantly in their cars, etc., and tapping away frenetically with all types of devices.... The inmates are taking over the asylum!
It was developed in Yakalot, Washington at the Blabington Research Lab.
Absolutely!
ah, finally a way to get them youngsters interested in coins
You can also extract gold from ocean saltwater, which seems about as practical as a "smart phone" relic coin.
I'll buy one of those commems if it has a hinge. Wait...I guess my phone isn't all that 'smart' (more like Spock's tricorder).
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]