Semiquincentennial $1 Coin Candidate Designs

Posted by DustinEchoes 21 hours ago

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Comment by openuntil3am 13 hours ago

I've read that after Commodus was assassinated, Rome tired to scrub his existence from history. I don't know why I'm mentioning this; it's completely unrelated.

Comment by pigeons 18 hours ago

Can you put living people on US coins? I realize some people don't really care about the rules.

Comment by ProllyInfamous 14 hours ago

Yes, but only with congressional approval.

Fortunately inflation is so high that these coins won't be worth much for very long. Like their obverse patron, won't be around forever.

¡¡ Happy 80th/250th !!

I've got my drill press ready, for a political art project.

Comment by ta9000 19 hours ago

As a coin collector, I’ll be passing on this one.

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Comment by xg15 20 hours ago

> 1776 ~ 2026

Is this supposed to be for a coin or a tombstone?

Comment by rogerrogerr 16 hours ago

It’s the same thing they did fifty years ago: https://www.govmint.com/20pc-1776-1976-25-cent-washington-ha...

Comment by xg15 14 hours ago

Ah, that makes more sense then.

Comment by EricRiese 20 hours ago

I threw up in my mouth a little

Comment by paulkrush 19 hours ago

It does make sense for dollar coins to hit mainstream as pennies and nickels will disapper before all coins do.

Comment by euroderf 16 hours ago

Nickels won't, because of quarters/dimes math. But yes, the penny tray is freed up.

Comment by dragonwriter 16 hours ago

Maybe quarters also go (perhaps with half-dollars becoming more common, which, alongside dimes and dollars, would give the same first-three-steps scale as penny/nickel/dime, just shifted a decimal place.)

Comment by euroderf 14 hours ago

The current half dollar is a rejected monster. Nickels should be too.

Shifting a decimal place works for me. Prices when I grew up up in the 60s & 70s were a fraction of today's. Penny candy WAS REAL! And the "five & dime" had stuff for, well, nickels & dimes. Not a lot, but some things. Nowadays it's dollar stores (a blight on the landscape) - their prevalence tells ya sumthin'bout the disposable income situation of many, many citizens.

Comment by ProllyInfamous 14 hours ago

Yes, and reduce the size of new_half_dollar to current_quarter; new_quarter to current_nickel; dime remains same size. Nix nickels and pennies. Dollars become smaller than current_half_dollar, but larger than current_quarter.

Comment by euroderf 13 hours ago

If you reuse currrent form factors for larger denominations, people will exploit it.

Comment by ProllyInfamous 5 hours ago

I agree — tangentally Gresham's Law [0]

>"Bad money drives out good."

Perhaps reduce denominations to bespoke sizes — but just make them smaller [2].

[0] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law>

[2] I am among the few people who actively uses half dollar coins — they're simply too bulky for most people (I'm a fatguy so I've got enough pocketspace).

Comment by foltik 20 hours ago

Oh the irony.

Comment by midnitewarrior 20 hours ago

I imagine this is how it was in the Soviet bloc.

Comment by throwaway81523 19 hours ago

Why a $1.00 coin instead of $2.50? And OMG I had no idea that President Trump was that old.