So, the Susan B. Anthony coin honored a “real woman”?!? Is that trans-phobic?
Any coin, just like any other “collectable” sold is guaranteed to not be a valuable collectable.
How many beanie babies and cabbage patch dolls are sitting in closets hoping to be valuable day?
I’d be glad to take any of those nasty old $3.00 and $4.00 ‘Big Failures’ off of anyone’s hands... Heck, I’d be willing to pay double their melt value.
It is certainly possible to mint $1 and $2 coins successfully, and even sometimes beautifully. Canada and the UK both have done so.
But the US mint is sunk in both wokeness and ugliness, and unless a new Auguste St. Gaudens or AA Weinmann shows up, we are kind of screwed.
The $2 bill never took off. Still around though.
I have one stamped with The Freedom Train from 1976.
So, I’m in shock. I haven’t hunted coin rolls for quite a while. Last two boxes of halves yielded nothing, zero, and that was over 10 years ago. Halves aren’t really in general circulation any more. I’ll usually ask the teller when I’m at the bank if she has any halves and usually she has 1 or 2 and I don’t even bother. Today I went to the bank and when I was done with my regular business I asked the teller if she had any halves. She had 8 rolls, hand rolled. I got four of them. Took them home, kind of forgot about them for a few hours. I go look at them and holy crap, out come Benjys, always a great sign. And a 37-S in stunning condition. From 4 rolls I got 11 qty 90% and 21 40%. Uhh, yeah, you bet I went back for the other 4 rolls. Out of 8 rolls I got 26 qty 90% and 41 40%’ers. You could go through 10 x $500 boxes and not get that many.
Investment: $80.
Value of coins
26 @ 17x face for 90% = $221
41 @ 6.5x face for 40% = $133.
A good day!
Looks like Bill Clinton with a crown on.
People learn from taking risks and making mistakes, and the mistakes are more interesting than the old reliables.
But it was a serious misstep for the transit system give out Sacajawea coins as change when nobody knew what they were, and you had to explain to cashiers every time you used them.
Now which Kroner coin had the hole in it?
The Susan B Anthony and Sacajawea dollars never caught on because they were foisted on the public for wokeness same. If Congress wants dollar coins to be used by the public, it should authorize the Ronald Reagan dollar.
Sacagawea……
We’re currently in El Salvador, which uses US currency. One big thing we didn’t expect is the wide use of US dollar coins. Mostly Presidential series and SBAs. Our first reaction was WTH is this when given to us as change.
Also, and I don’t know how prevalent this is, I haven’t seen a single coin smaller than a quarter.
The $4 Stella....STELLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Rd later.
What this country needs is a good five cent nickel...............
I never liked the dollar coins because of their bulk. You can easily stuff paper money into a thin wallet, but big denomination coins rattle around in your pocket.
I believe the penny persists because of state and local sales taxes. Legislatures like fractional percent sales tax increases as they seem less onerous than raising taxes by a full percent. The result is consumers paying in bills often end up with a larger number of coins in change. The penny jar that seems to be ubiquitous next to the cash register in many places is a means for clerks to simply throw in a penny or two from the jar to avoid having to count out lots of coins. For example customers paying for a purchase of $19.96 with a twenty and two ones with the help of a penny from the jar receive a nickel change rather than the clerk counting out four pennies.