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Semiquincentennial $1 Coin Candidate Designs
- emchammer 10mo agoYou can have any design you want, as long as it's Trump.
- midnitewarrior 10mo agoI imagine this is how it was in the Soviet bloc.
- EricRiese 10mo agoI threw up in my mouth a little
- foltik 10mo agoOh the irony.
- xg15 10mo ago> 1776 ~ 2026 Is this supposed to be for a coin or a tombstone?
- rogerrogerr 10mo agoIt’s the same thing they did fifty years ago: https://www.govmint.com/20pc-1776-1976-25-cent-washington-half-roll-bu https://www.govmint.com/20pc-1776-1976-25-cent-washington-ha...
- xg15 10mo agoAh, that makes more sense then.
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- ta9000 10mo agoAs a coin collector, I’ll be passing on this one.
- paulkrush 10mo agoIt does make sense for dollar coins to hit mainstream as pennies and nickels will disapper before all coins do.
- euroderf 10mo agoNickels won't, because of quarters/dimes math. But yes, the penny tray is freed up.
- dragonwriter 10mo agoMaybe 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.)
- ProllyInfamous 10mo agoYes, 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.
- euroderf 10mo agoIf you reuse currrent form factors for larger denominations, people will exploit it.
- ProllyInfamous 10mo agoI 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 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).
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- strathmeyer 10mo ago[dead]
- throwaway81523 10mo agoWhy a $1.00 coin instead of $2.50? And OMG I had no idea that President Trump was that old.
- decremental 10mo ago[dead]
- pigeons 10mo agoCan you put living people on US coins? I realize some people don't really care about the rules.
- ProllyInfamous 10mo agoYes, 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.
- openuntil3am 10mo agoI'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.