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Semiquincentennial $1 Coin Candidate Designs

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I'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.

Can you put living people on US coins? I realize some people don't really care about the rules.

Yes, 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.

As a coin collector, I’ll be passing on this one.

I threw up in my mouth a little

> 1776 ~ 2026

Is this supposed to be for a coin or a tombstone?

It’s the same thing they did fifty years ago: https://www.govmint.com/20pc-1776-1976-25-cent-washington-ha...

Ah, that makes more sense then.

It does make sense for dollar coins to hit mainstream as pennies and nickels will disapper before all coins do.

Nickels won't, because of quarters/dimes math. But yes, the penny tray is freed up.

Maybe 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.)

Yes, 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.

If you reuse currrent form factors for larger denominations, people will exploit it.

I 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>

[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).

The current half dollar is a rejected monster. Nickels should be too.

Shifting a decimal place works for me. Prices when I grew up up in the 60s & 70s were a fraction of today's. Penny candy WAS REAL! And the "five & dime" had stuff for, well, nickels & dimes. Not a lot, but some things. Nowadays it's dollar stores (a blight on the landscape) - their prevalence tells ya sumthin'bout the disposable income situation of many, many citizens.

Oh the irony.

I imagine this is how it was in the Soviet bloc.

Why a $1.00 coin instead of $2.50? And OMG I had no idea that President Trump was that old.

You can have any design you want, as long as it's Trump.

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