Or in the case of Mexico, they hired a French desinger.
Posted on 09/19/2023 4:18:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The $4 Stella....STELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess you don’t own any rare coins.
The last time I got a 90% silver coin in my change was probably around then.
I’ve got no problem with Jefferson, either. The current design leaves a bit to be desired, though.
Even when they were somewhat popular in the early 2000s, people were always pleased to get them. I don't know why people insist on dollar bills that are always greasy and frayed. Eliminate the dollar bill and go to dollar coins. Eliminate the penny as well.
Unfortunately, pennies cannot be eliminated so long as there are state and local sales taxes.
I guess that’s where they dump the coins that aren’t popular in the US.
Yeah...I’d ask for half dollars in change, and buy out any in the till. Sometimes I’d spot silver edges before anything else. A twenty-something cashier did a double-take on a Franklin half and said “That’s a funny color.” Yeah. Silver. Hilarious.
That’s the real reason dollar coins never caught on. People would have used them no problem if dollar bills had been take. Out of circulation at the same time.
I have a Kennedy half dollar .
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Agreed. The tradition of having Lady Liberty (or some variation of such) on coinage goes back to ancient Greece. Empires and kingdoms had rulers on their coins. Republics and democracies used a national symbol or Lady Liberty (France, Switzerland, etc).
It’s not coincidental that Lady Liberty started to vanish from our coinage around the same time that it liberty started to vanish from our country.
We just spent 11 days in Canada from the west coast to the Rockies. Drove 1,900 miles. We didn’t change a single US dollar for a Canadian dollar before we went. We charged everything, most times using the iPhone and maybe 10% of the time using a credit-card wireless tap. Every merchant, restaurant, gas station, and transit service took the electronic payment.
I DID find a Looney in a field on a hike along the Bow River in Banff, so we came home with one Canadian dollar.
I traveled a lot globally in the mid 70s through the early 90s for business and always took care to leave with lots of AMEX Traveler’s Checks. I always came home with piles of coins from various countries that collected in drawers.
How times have changed.
Or when the silver went off the coinage, in 1965.
Rd later.
Rare coins aren’t originally sold as “collectibles”
They become collectibles by chance, either by misprints or rarity.
It’s true people collect coins, even I have some Kennedy and Eisenhower coins but I doubt I’d get more than face value of them today.
Haha, I remember Billy Beer.
Never drank one but I hear it tasted like warmed over mule piss.
P.s. Don’t ask me how people know how mule piss tastes like😆
The story explains nicely why it is a collectible, it was from a limited minting, unexpectedly.
I also have one cold that I have kept wrapped up and refrigerated since 1978. I preserved it as an example of the Carter family conceit.
I’m sure it’s as good as the day it was bottled...or canned.
But as a collectible, it certainly has value, even if just for party talk
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