Semiquincentennial $1 Coin Candidate Designs(www.usmint.gov)
18 pointsby DustinEchoes2 months ago14 comments
  • openuntil3am2 months 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.
  • pigeons2 months ago
    Can you put living people on US coins? I realize some people don't really care about the rules.
    • ProllyInfamous2 months 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.

  • ta90002 months ago
    As a coin collector, I’ll be passing on this one.
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  • EricRiese2 months ago
    I threw up in my mouth a little
  • xg152 months ago
    > 1776 ~ 2026

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

  • paulkrush2 months ago
    It does make sense for dollar coins to hit mainstream as pennies and nickels will disapper before all coins do.
    • euroderf2 months ago
      Nickels won't, because of quarters/dimes math. But yes, the penny tray is freed up.
      • dragonwriter2 months 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.)
        • euroderf2 months 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.

        • ProllyInfamous2 months 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.
          • euroderf2 months ago
            If you reuse currrent form factors for larger denominations, people will exploit it.
            • ProllyInfamous2 months ago
              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).

  • foltik2 months ago
    Oh the irony.
  • midnitewarrior2 months ago
    I imagine this is how it was in the Soviet bloc.
  • throwaway815232 months ago
    Why a $1.00 coin instead of $2.50? And OMG I had no idea that President Trump was that old.
  • emchammer2 months ago
    You can have any design you want, as long as it's Trump.
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