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What would collectors really like from the mint?
RWB
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Just curious....
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2. Better distribution of bullion related items
3. Make all coins available for purchase directly from the Mint ie. "Pennies", nickels, dimes, so people don't have to search Banks or buy at inflated prices on eBay
4. Better interface capabilities with the "Brass" which allows them to hear what the people really want
5. Get the Politicians out of any decision making capacity!!!
6. That's just a few off the top of my head!!
Just 1 or 2 new commems and at most 1 or 2 new single-year designs annually for a single denomination of circulating coinage. Maybe pick one (the half!) and restrict all rotating design changes to that denomination.
Clad "circulating" versions of commemoratives.
Depictions of Liberty, Justice and Freedom on circulating coinage, with interesting new takes on these emblems to be rotated in periodically (some of the pre-euro European coinage has some excellent examples of what can be done with design).
Better design overall that will look good when struck.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
An end to dead presidents on circulating coinage.
Lower mintage for all coins and really low mintage for collectable coins.
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Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
I can't think of one living president i would give the time of day to except Carter possibly.
I think the state quarters , 2009 lincolns , presidential dollars , sacs , ATB quarters are the biggest con going , where else can you pay $5 for 50c in pennies.Its probably the only thing keeping the mint open.The majority of these coins will perhaps see little circulation and go into whitman albums freeing the mint up to manufacture more rubbish.
If anything in the id like to see dept , its better thought out designs.
<< <i>They could go back and produce some 2005 through 2010 mint sets..........the old fashion way.
Leo
Amen!
I would like to see a painless way to get an example of each year's circulating coinage. It sounds like that might be addressed beginning in 2011. Nobody bothered to answer me if the mint set will be circulation issues or yet another special finish. Must not have been controversial enough.
I would like to see coins like the American Eagle have the metal content removed from being on the coin.
I'd like to see commeratives that commerate something other than PC garbage. Don't issue a commerative just for the sake of issuing one, issue them when there is a legitimate reason to issue one.
I'd like to see the dollar coin be returned to the large size last seen with the Ike dollar but made of aluminum or some aluminum alloy.
I would like to see the rule changed about presidents not being on coins until two years after they are dead. I want a complete set of Presidential dollars, even if most of them are dissapointing and uninspiring. Even if it's just a one-time exception to the rule so the series could be made complete.
I'd like to see half dollars actually circulate again.
I find the designs of the circulating coins, other than most of the presidential dollars, to be satisfactory, and actually improving as time goes on. The parks quarters so far look to be a lot better in design than the State quarters, even if the first few issues were somewhat lackluster. Actually I don't like the obverse of the Sacajawea dollar either.
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Rolls of all circulating coinage at face value plus shipping.
Silver/gold/platinum/palladium bullion coins available directly from the Mint.
An end to the "collector" versions of bullion (which isn't much more than a "W" mint-mark at an inflated price).
Public voting via the internet to pick coin designs for commemoratives and bullion.
<< <i>Quality control! >>
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I vote for a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator or B-29 Superfort.
A P-51 and P-47 in escort. off the wing.
Homage to those of the AAF.
Imagine a 2026 Seated quarter, or a 2026 Mercury Dime, a 2026 Flying Eagle cent, a 2026 Capped Bust half, and so forth. Either as a one year observance or a multi year program so no classic designs are short-changed.
<< <i>Changes? Improvements? Products? Services?
Just curious.... >>
This particular collector?
Get completely out of the collector and bullion markets and go back to doing its basic job--supplying everyday commerce with coinage.
<< <i>Take all the dead presidents off the coins and put LIBERTY back on where she belongs!!!!!!!! >>
...YES!!!