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How many people will take a quick look and think it's an arcade token?
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How many dollar coins do you spend now?
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I don’t like that one at all.
Snap, that may be popular with the basement crowd!
Not for me!
Another spectacular mint product.....
Old arcade tokens I've seen are better than that. I'd be embarrassed to have my initials on that thing.
Wow.
Can we just pull the plug on the entire small-dollar program?
Compare the above to some of these designs. What a waste.
Nope. A hard pass on that one.
Clearly given to the most talented engraver who managed to make the rectangular pong paddles into squares....
Oh, wait!.... That was supposed to be a PONG system?! So glad I abandoned collecting dollars with the "Inno-bucks"!!
It’s an excellent candidate for worst U.S. Mint design ever.
Every time I think that I remember the Eunice Shriver coin and say to myself.....no, this is not THAT bad.
I am not impressed with that design... There have been a couple of good ones... the last the rotary dial phone image. Cheers, RickO
I can just imagine spending a coin like this and trying to convince the cashier that it's a real US coin.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Makes sense that this would look like an arcade token. That’s about it’s buying power these days...
pass
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pYcjfhy4z8VwrhGR8
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Good for one Play? No, pass here
I wish they would get rid of the paper dollar so these would have a fighting chance to circulate. It worked great for the loonies and twoonies in Canada.
Seems like a better design could have been drafted for this. Ralph Baer was the "Father of Video Games" & his gaming system the Odyssey predated Atari...in fact they sued Atari for stealing ideas. Ralph also was integral to creating Milton Bradley's "SIMON". At least a bench statue was erected in New Hampshire for him. This coin is very disappointing.
So, who's going to be buying the $100 bag just to spend and piss off the cashiers??
ugh
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Two quick comments:
That thing is so weird I may need to acquire a few rolls, and
The Presidential dollars already looked like tokens—they remind me of the little rounds that some gas stations gave out and encouraged us to collect circa 1970.
Dose look like an arcade token but at the same time it teaches history, for example before I saw this thread I didn’t know video games came from New Hampshire, though the came from Atari or Japans Nintendo. Now I know 👍
I need the 4 regular and 4 reverse proofs for my set. I do not like the NH design
but it is what it is.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
According to the Mint's description, the game (handball) is on the right side of the reverse, and "New Hampshire" and "Player 1" are on the left side. I'm guessing that many collectors will initially believe their coins have a rotation error.
This
Game tokens being released today!!
This looks like it could be fun spending these....cheap entertainment really...
New Hampshire in the spotlight. Game over. Please insert another coin.
It's still no
I kinda like these. Maybe because I live in NH. Might buy a bag.
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Pete
Well I impulse bought a bag of them. Reading up on these, I didn't realize they are expressly sold to collectors and not intended for circulation. So attempting to spend one, you really couldn't blame a cashier for having no idea what it is.
So what can I do with 100 of these?
Maybe I need some kind of arcade game converted to take these coins. So I can stack them next to the machine for practical use.
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A neat concept that has been executed poorly. Video games ought to have more recognition, as they have helped define how we interact with technology and are becoming collectibles in their own right (I do game appraisals on the side).
Did you know that Sega is partly responsible for establishing the Internet as we know it today?
Or did you hear about the gold-plated Wii, made for the Queen of England, that sold for $300,000?
Even with coins, as I have worked and developed on a local shop's website, I used my experience playing and developing video games to better understand how clients and collectors view coins in store and translate that to the digital environment.
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