[mikenola]

visit the The Blog that Care Forgot

[Revolting cat!]

First they screwed up the $20 dollah bill, then they f****d with the quarter so it won't play 3 tunes on a jukebox, then they messed up a dime so it won't pay for a local phone call, now they got their paws on the nickel! I'm moving to Paraguay after this!

[Noslrac]

All these weird coins make it easy for people to pass off canadian coinage as US coins. Nothing like getting ripped off when someone gives you a "quarter" worth half of what its supposed to be.

[pbear8]

I want nothing even remotely French on my coins thank you.

[Conservative til I die]

Thank goodness the Mint is finally getting the balls to try changing the tired and from an artistic standpoint, horrid designs of our coins. Believe me, all this temporary commemorative stuff is just a trial run for a permanent change.

Unfortunately, the continued retardation of the public has been used as the excuse for keeping the designs as they are. Apparently the dopes of this country won't be able to tell how much money is in their pockets if the pictures are different.

[Conservative til I die]

Some beautiful, circulating coins from our nation's past:


Mercury Dime, 1944


Standing Liberty Quarter, front and back, 1919


Walking Liberty Half Dollar, 1947


$20 St. Gauden's Double Eagle, 1927

[zeugma]

NO! Not the nickle!!!!!!!!!

Many of you might not have really noticed this but if you save all your nickles and start looking through the dates, you'll find coins from the 40s and 50s pretty regularly because the design hasn't changed in so long. One of my daughters expressed interest last year in collecting coins after I showed her some of the really nice ones I have, and I suggested that if she wants to put together a collection of anything fairly quickly, nickles were the place to start. Just save them all, then when you sort through them, keep only the best 2 of each year/mint. You'd be amazed at how quickly you can build a fairly robust collection (just for fun...not many of these will ever be worth anything).

Oh, well, there goes the mint screwing up a perfectly good coin yet again.

If they really want to do something usefull, they'd get rid of the penny and the single dollar bill. Pennys are worthless, and $1s have too high a velocity to last very long at all. Granted, the new $1 coins suck design wise, but I kinda like them as a form factor.