With the mint starting presidential coins, should the mint start making real coins?
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Haven't we had enough of the coins commemorating the presidents? Isn't it time for the mint to start giving us some artistic coins? I for one think they could find more than enough stuff this great country stand for to give us something different! At the very least get some of the old stuff changed. I can't believe with the opportunity for the mint to change the nickel, we still wound up with Monticello on the reverse. What gives!!! And I don't think we want to bring the old stuff back either. I mean real new artistic designs!
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I think the chances of that happening are about as good as seeing a return to 90% silver coinage.
Unless something happens to metals prices the cents and nickels will disappear from circulation and it won't even be possible to make change at the store in all cases.
It must cost close to a dime to make a nickel now and they won't be able to waste this money much longer, I bet.
Even passing legislation to protect the coins from melting would probably backfire as it would draw public attention to the fact they are worth more than a nickel.
~shaking head no~
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
The problem centers on the function of the artist today. Post-photography, artists (sculptors, draftsmen, painters) are no longer the chief documentarians of events. I see their function today more closely linked to taste, thought, idea, style-- and this has been welcomed whole-heartedly by those with "product" to sell. I can't tell you how many times I have seen the same concept in a gallery in 2004 and in a Nissan ad in 2006.
I don't think most Americans have any idea that artists are forging their aesthetic sensibilities, and as a resut they are very hesitant to nominate any individual to represent them in this capacity.
and need not be stacked, its time for good in depth designs.
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