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Is there a method to the maddness, or not?

GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭
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With 54 different varieties of US Presidential Dollars in the very FIRST year with around 13 more years to go, should this edge lettering madness be stopped for all our sanities? With 14 years times 54. well let me see. It's a lot! Oh, wait. It's 756 coins.

Now add the Sacs and that's 1/4 more so that's 945 coins.

What are your thoughts?

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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."-Polonius
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is what it is... and the Mint controls it... go with the flow, since you cannot do anything about it anyway. Cheers, RickO
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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭


    << <i>Yes! It is pure insanity created by the Devil himself >>

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    Mercury10cMercury10c Posts: 2,958
    Another stupid idea for another stupid coin that most people don't even know exists.
    The whole dollar coin experiment should be stopped unless the paper dollar is withdrawn.
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    BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,321 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The TPGSs love it, I bet.
    Think of all the extra slabbing fees they get to have generated....

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 45,656 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The TPGSs love it, I bet. >>



    And so do all the TV coin hucksters.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.

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    lcoopielcoopie Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭✭✭
    its hard enough to remember to look at both sides, the rim, now another thing image
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    SilverstateSilverstate Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭
    It's 9 years and WOW !
    What an expensive year 2007 has been for Presidential Dollars!

    The complete variety set is not for the faint of heart.
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    GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭


    << <i>It's 9 years and WOW !
    What an expensive year 2007 has been for Presidential Dollars!

    The complete variety set is not for the faint of heart.
    image >>



    Actually not. The next President will be #44 so that is 11 years. Then during the 11 years we will have another 3 so that would put it at 12 years which my previous post was in error. Bad math.

    Still, 12 years.
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    LoveMyLibertyLoveMyLiberty Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭


    << <i>"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."-Polonius >>




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    jfoot13jfoot13 Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭
    as long as they leave the edges on the nickels alone I'm happy
    If you can't swim you better stay in the boat.......
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    TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,020 ✭✭✭✭✭
    in a few hundred years, ... someone's children's children's children will be looking at the edge lettering on today's coin and ... image

    what will you detractors say then ?
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    zeebobzeebob Posts: 2,825 ✭
    If they could do a good job of it 100 years ago, they ought to be able to get it right now. I'm all for it. It's image
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    halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    Well, at least IGWT is coming off the edges . . . Maybe that's a start.

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    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
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    GrivGriv Posts: 2,804 ✭


    << <i>in a few hundred years, ... someone's children's children's children will be looking at the edge lettering on today's coin and ... image

    what will you detractors say then ? >>



    I'll be worm food by then. image
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,485 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't really mind it Griv! I'm sure the US Mint will eventually get it together for a bulk of the coins yet to come. What has been produced so far, actually serves as a reminder to keep on checking and don't necessarily check for the obvious!

    What really bothers me are those that take advantage of folks who don't really know what a "Weak Edge Lettered" coin is or what a "Partial Edge Lettered" coin is!

    That bothers me. Lots of folks getting taken to the bank!

    I see the different varieties as a good, useful tool to bring new collectors into the fold. I mean, the more folks that look at their pocket change, the better off the hobby will be.

    Right? image
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    SilverstateSilverstate Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>It's 9 years and WOW !
    What an expensive year 2007 has been for Presidential Dollars!

    The complete variety set is not for the faint of heart.
    image >>



    Actually not. The next President will be #44 so that is 11 years. Then during the 11 years we will have another 3 so that would put it at 12 years which my previous post was in error. Bad math.

    Still, 12 years. >>



    BUT, the caviat is that they need to be dead. And only 9 1/2 total years are scheduled for now.
    Need to have a few die first, then the series can run a little longer.
    So for now only until 2016, the same goes for the Spouse Gold coins and medals.
    Jim
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    SilverstateSilverstate Posts: 1,537 ✭✭✭
    Presidential Dollar Coin Release Schedule

    Year President Years Served Release Date

    2007 1 George Washington 1789-1797 February 15
    2 John Adams 1797-1801 May 17
    3 Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 August 16
    4 James Madison 1809-1817 November 15

    2008 5 James Monroe 1817-1825 February 14
    6 John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 May 15
    7 Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 August 14
    8 Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 November 13

    2009 9 William Henry Harrison 1841
    10 John Tyler 1841-1845
    11 James K. Polk 1845-1849
    12 Zachary Taylor 1849-1850

    2010 13 Millard Fillmore 1850-1853
    14 Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
    15 James Buchanan 1857-1861
    16 Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865

    2011 17 Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
    18 Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877
    19 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881
    20 James A. Garfield 1881

    2012 21 Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885
    22 Grover Cleveland 1885-1889
    23 Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893
    24 Grover Cleveland 1893-1897

    2013 25 William McKinley 1897-1901
    26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
    27 William Howard Taft 1909-1913
    28 Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921

    2014 29 Warren Harding 1921-1923
    30 Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
    31 Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
    32 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945

    2015 33 Harry S. Truman 1945-1953
    34 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961
    35 John F. Kennedy 1961-1963
    36 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969

    2016 37 Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974
    38 Gerald Ford 1974-1977
    Jim
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