Semiquincentennial $1 Coin Candidate Designs(www.usmint.gov)
16 pointsby DustinEchoes12 hours ago14 comments
  • openuntil3am4 hours ago
    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.
  • pigeons8 hours ago
    Can you put living people on US coins? I realize some people don't really care about the rules.
    • ProllyInfamous5 hours ago
      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.

  • ta900010 hours ago
    As a coin collector, I’ll be passing on this one.
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  • xg1511 hours ago
    > 1776 ~ 2026

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

  • EricRiese11 hours ago
    I threw up in my mouth a little
  • paulkrush9 hours ago
    It does make sense for dollar coins to hit mainstream as pennies and nickels will disapper before all coins do.
    • euroderf7 hours ago
      Nickels won't, because of quarters/dimes math. But yes, the penny tray is freed up.
      • dragonwriter7 hours ago
        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.)
        • euroderf4 hours ago
          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.

        • ProllyInfamous5 hours ago
          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.
          • euroderf4 hours ago
            If you reuse currrent form factors for larger denominations, people will exploit it.
  • foltik11 hours ago
    Oh the irony.
  • midnitewarrior11 hours ago
    I imagine this is how it was in the Soviet bloc.
  • throwaway815239 hours ago
    Why a $1.00 coin instead of $2.50? And OMG I had no idea that President Trump was that old.
  • emchammer11 hours ago
    You can have any design you want, as long as it's Trump.
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