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What do you think about a Lincoln struck on a silver coin going forward ?
mach19
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Just asking for your opinion ? I'm not sure if in fact they will have the Lincolns available next year ?
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What do you think about a Lincoln struck on a silver** coin** going forward ?
Okay, now you're just messing with us.
LOL .... I was just wondering ?
He's talking about you calling this a coin, when it's a planchet, after you called the war nickel coin a planchet on the other thread.
This would be a Lincoln struck on a silver planchet.
Also, are you not sure whether you were wondering or not? Why is there a question mark?
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Why do something like that? Just curious
No, struck on low zinc brass, aka 95% copper and strike the nickel in the silver proof set on wartime silver composition -- that would be a big move in the collector direction. Otherwise, I am done wasting my time with "collector only" Lincolns in their overpriced mint sets that have nothing special about them.
You mean “going forward” like the others?
There is no reason for them to, other than to create another "collectible" that people can fight over if it is hard to acquire. They've never felt the need to strike a silver Lincoln for inclusion in 30+ years of silver proof sets, I'm not sure why they would start now. If the only place to get a Lincoln cent is in a proof or mint set in the future, striking them at all creates a collectible without the need to source new planchets.
Certainly, the Mint could create a limited edition silver cent and sell it for $75 if they wanted to. Then, we will get the usual litany of complaints about pricing and distribution.
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The approach should be Congress giving broad authority to the mint to make copper cents of any size, even large cents as long as it is a 1 or 2 cent piece with minimum 95% copper as numismatic products.
I agree to the extent that Congress should simply turn over decisions on all numismatic products to the Mint, Congress is too slow and not capable of rapid decisions that would depend on feedback from outcomes -- in other words, Congress has no ability to engage in free market decision making.
So, yes it would be awesome if Congress would just stick to the decision on what circulating coins should be used, and leave the numismatic decisions up to the Mint.
YES. More please!
If the idea is to put Lincoln in front of the public by putting him on a coin, there are possibilities in 2027 onward. . The only coins that actually circulate are the nickel, dime, and quarter. I think Jefferson is safe and that we will revert to Washington on the quarter. The leaves the dime as a good place for Lincoln. Else, an “honorary” place on the seldom-encountered half dollar or dollar might work.
I was thinking in the silver proof set going forward
The British Virgin Islands and I think Bermuda too produced silver versions of their one cent pieces for specialized sets.
This proposal will probably have to go through Congress first to avoid the issue of legality that killed the 2000-W Sacagawea Dollars.
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