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If I was the Director of the Mint I would....

renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
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....demand relief as in higher relief. I think many of today's designs would look better if they had little relief like the Buff nickel, Merc dime, or Walker. Just look at the differences between the 1909 cent and its redux, albeit shallow, 2010 cent. Compare a 1964 JFK to today's half, the '64 looks similar to a $20 UHR. I want relief.

What would you do as the Director?

R95

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  • JupitarCoinsJupitarCoins Posts: 2,595 ✭
    I would sit on my arse like this one does.image
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  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    He doesnt care about how the coins look. He is concerned with profit and output.
  • MsMorrisineMsMorrisine Posts: 36,938 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess the answer is obvious, however I'd like to know the current position on making newly coined coins with more relief.



    maybe once we eliminate the national deficit.... image


    I don't think you will get relief....
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    I would recommend coinage design changes for the Half dollars, Roosevelt Dimes, Jefferson Nickels, and Lincoln cents to the Secretary of the Treasury.

    I would also recommend making ALL current business strike coinage available by the roll or bag to my customers which includes collectors. I would NEVER say that the Federal Reserve was "it's (The US Mint's) only customer" as stated in the open forum held recently at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. I'd realize that the money pulled in from the sale of collectible coins is a REAL profit over and above what is distributed to the Federal Reserve Bank.

    I'd get an id on the PCGS Message boards! image
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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If I were the Director, I'd do as I was told. How else do you keep your job in govern- Mint ?

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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    .....i'd say lee has the right idea. image
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  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Issue mintage reports after the end of mintage, i.e. you get the mintage report once, after all coining is done. You want to flip these puppies, you put some skin in the game! I'd make a lot of friends with that oneimage
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  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    2. I would require that future Mint Directors come from this board.
  • AJ2525AJ2525 Posts: 477
    Hello,

    I would cease production of any coin that metal content plus expenses were more than the face value.

    Cheers
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  • MoldnutMoldnut Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭
    Find a way to get Lady Liberty in any form back on coins! What a great symbol for a great country.
    Derek

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  • BlackborderBlackborder Posts: 2,797 ✭
    Use the 1890 coinage law liberally.
  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,978 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ...study video game and car wash tokens, and make sure my products looked better than them.
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would have "make your own error day" at the Mint. Collectors could come on to the coining floor, and under the supervision of the Mint personnel, order up any delicacy they wanted. We'd have the curator pull out of storage all the old dies, too.

    It's like legalizing drugs. Clearly the best way to do away with the surruptitious activity is to just open it up to everyone image
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  • JedPlanchetJedPlanchet Posts: 909 ✭✭✭
    ... quit because Congress meddles too much which interferes with the ability truly direct the Mint. image

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  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    If I was the Director of the Mint I would.... Fire everyone and start fresh with people who know what the hell their doing...... Starting with quality control...
  • ocon4008ocon4008 Posts: 1,703
    Have the boys run off a few million 1933 saints to end all this hullabaloo.image

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