Why, Why, Why.....are they making another Dollar coin if its no bigger than

[NH Bob]

The other failures If they want it to catch on then make it big like the old Dollar coins.

 

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[Natman]

If they want it to catch on then make it big like the old Dollar coins.

Really! When are they ever going to learn?

Then again, they'll be more easily lost so we'll dig up more of 'em

Nat

 

[Stormtrooper154]

Im not sure that even a bigger silver dollar would do so well in todays market. They were better in the past because of the metal they were made of was the currency, unlike today. Now if they were made of silver...Watch out! LOL Just my 2 cents worth

 

[NH Bob]

Ya, but it feels so good to have a handful of big coins in your pocket.

 

[Pulltab Parson]

I like to use the Sacs cuz there a different color and their neet to look at. On the other hand, I have spent more than my fair share of Susan B Anthony Dollars as quarters! The minting of those my friends was a HUGE mistake.

 

[Leon]

I think the only reason they're doing is so that Bush, Clinton, and all the other jolly ranchers can get their picture on a coin, without causing too much of an uproar...

 

[NH Bob]

You mean like Napoleon and Nero?
Napoleon medal 1806

 

[hollowpointred]

it just seems like people dont like the idea of a dollar coin. ill bet this one goes in the toilet just like the sacs did.

 

[mgdigger]

It won't work unless they stop printing dollars bills. I would like to see a 5 dollar coin as well, thoes would be fun to find.

 

[NH Bob]

You know what? My money is on what you just said.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

My brother, bless his heart, has asked for $10 in Sacagaweas (sp?) when he cashes his paycheck every week since they became available. He leaves them as tips and spends them as a practice. Some waitesses don't even know they're legal coins. "Hay! What's this supposed to be?"

Pity we can't get a nice liberty head coin of at least half-dollar size as our dollar coin.

Maybe they can melt down all the unissued S.B.A. dollars for the alloy? Small AND ugly. Who designs these things? The ugliest large cent has more character than anything issued since before 1970. Actually, I like the large cents better than most for some strange reason. We try too hard to be modern and artsy and it just gets busy and awkward.

Spend an hour with a 10X loupe scouring a MS-65 Morgan. Now THAT was a coin.

 

[Pulltab Parson]

I agree, but my problem is, and one of the major reasons I got into MDing was because I just love coins. To me they are little works of art, and each one could tell a story if their mouths would move. I have read that some here love to get old relics because they know that the last guy who touched it was probably a soldier or someone who has been dead for 100 years. They all have a history whether it be 100 days or 100 years. When its said that its all about the adventure; there is a lot of truth in that, but its also about that one coin that tells a story all by itself, I think that is the other side of the coin.

 

[bazinga]

It won't work unless they stop printing dollars bills. I would like to see a 5 dollar coin as well, thoes would be fun to find.

I agree with him. Until we remove the $1 bill from circulation, the dollar coins will be failures.

Seeing people from other countries post their finds from a day at the park or beach really makes me jealous! Like Canada with the $1 and $2 coins... coming home with $50 in clad would definitely make me a clad hunter a day or two a week!

 

[wolfmanjoe3]

I would like to see a 5 dollar coin as well, thoes would be fun to find.

Agree - but I would go one step further. Make a $10 coin for general circulation. A dollar today is about the same as a penny 100+ years ago, yet we still have no coinage in circulation larger than $1. I know lots of people who don't want to bother carrying pennies, nickels, and even dimes. They give them as tips, leave them in vending machines, and even throw them on the ground (all the better for us TH'ers...). They should mint new coins with enough value to make it worthwhile for the average person to want to carry them around. That's my $2 worth (inflation from my old 2 cents worth...)

 

[NH Bob]

Like one of you said, they don't make coins as beautiful as they used to. Look at a new quarter or dime and then look at the work put into an older coin.

 

[mgdigger]

I think we should ditch the penny as well, just no use any more. And why don't we see any halves out there anymore

 

[Jeffro]

Why they are doing it is to make money. The coins won't circulate, and they know it. Same thing with the state quarters. 100 million people are collecting them. Thats a lot of quarters taken out of circulation.

 

[RON (PA)]

The Susan B. Anthony & the Sacagawea dollars were not much bigger than a quarter, if memory serves me correct. For a dollar coin to catch on, the gov't should do one of two things or possibly both.
1). Make the dollar coin bigger than a quarter. Possibly as big as a Morgan, Peace, etc. this would be to avoid confusion between the quarter and the dollar coins.
2). Stop making the paper bills. If we don't have a choice, we will be forced to use the dollar coins.

I think the new dollar coins are going to be just like the state quarters. They will be collected and hoarded and not much more. I don't think we will see a lot of them in circulation. Just MHO

 

[Farmercal]

They could take a lesson from Europe on this one. Look at these coins, since they are two-toned you good and well they are not a quarter.

 

[packerbacker]

I saw where they were going to release $10 coins with gold content of the First Ladies to coincide with the release of the dollar coins. THOSE will be the collectable ones if you can afford them. I'm sure they will sell for much more than $10.