LostDutchman Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 i picked a few up.... and honestly.... they look like casino tokens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 Have you found the ultra-rare error yet? With the lettering on the edge upside down? Some guy had three on eBay for $125 each before taking them down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostDutchman Posted February 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 no, i haven't seen anything like it yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drusus Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I have to admit, they do seem a bit cheap. They are real light...a bit...blah...kinda like a cheap token more than a dollar...I am wondering if they will improve with circulation though...I had a token I didnt like much...carried it around until it tarnished...and I rather like it now...I am going to do the same with a pres dollar...I will post the results... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 I could care less about them. They look cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggAndyy Posted February 16, 2007 Report Share Posted February 16, 2007 http://www.biggandyy.com/2007/02/16/new-do...s-from-us-mint/ I stole an image.. hope you don't mind muwahahahahahaa! BTW: to summarize the article, they suck-diddly-uck Flanders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1977topps Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 This from a country where Morgan dollars, Mercury dimes, Buffalo nickels, Walking Liberty halves, etc. once circulated. These are without a doubt the worst looking things (I will not call them coins) I have seen. Is this really the best we can do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echizento Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 I'm not impressed. This country needs to get a real silver dollar in circulation. I think the Silver Eagle should be our national silver dollar. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureGirl Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Seconded! But, as my dad pointed out, the mint/government is trying to attract new collectors, not trying to make current collectors like us happy. I wonder what makes them think presidents will be more popular than re-introducing a beautiful classic? Maybe they should ask us collectors what we would like to see - before wasting money and effort - and what it was that got us into collecting. It sure as infierno wasn't Presidential Dollars, and for many of us (just an assumption, correct me if I'm wrong) it wasn't SQs, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 They remind me of Chuck E Cheese tokens! I called 5 local banks this morning, and the only success I had (if you can call it that) was one bank that said they'd have them next Wednesday. Surely they can't be expected to circulate if we can't get them! What really gets me is all the fuss about the cost of cents and nickels, but at least they serve their purpose! I've yet to go into a business that doesn't have them in the cash drawer, has anyone in government ever calculated the true cost of these monstrocities taking up space in government vaults? My guess is that if you figured the all in cost of these coins, they would be much bigger losers than cents and nickels combined! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syzygy Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 I'm not impressed. This country needs to get a real silver dollar in circulation. I think the Silver Eagle should be our national silver dollar.Ron Hmmm not sure how that could work. Silver closed at about $14 oz. That makes a 1964 Roosie worth $1.01 and an Eagle worth $14. I'm not sure a dollar coin the size of a dime would work. A 0.100 silver content coin would hardly be a silver coin. Of course if silver went to $20, that would be a problem too. Not likely we will be seeing too much in the way of circulating silver, but fortunately, there are a lot of silver coins out there to collect That past aint coming back - but the future...well the future aint here yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1977topps Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 Maybe we should do something like make a $1, $5, $10, and $20 out of silver. Kind of like gold coins back in the day. The $20 could be an oz. The problem would be confusion with clad coinage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureGirl Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&a...ho+casino+token --> Look at the 1st three images. Huh... A "Westward-ho casino $10 token .999 fine silver". In my opinion, it's the ring next to the rim and the $1 instead of "One Dollar" that makes it look so cheesy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just carl Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 I really can't say what I think about those here or I'd be thrown off forever. I just think we have hit another one of those wonderful Susan B. Anthony/Sacagawea things. No one I know wants them around at all. They still get mixed up in change with quarters and eventually so will these. What is going to be a riot is trying to use one for a dollar in a store. I still can't get stores to take the other little baby dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 I've had people at Taco Bell argue with me that Susan. B's are play money. It took a manager to finally have enough sense to realize they were real (the manager was actually younger than the cashier). These may suffer the same fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sisu Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 http://www.biggandyy.com/2007/02/16/new-do...s-from-us-mint/ I stole an image.. hope you don't mind muwahahahahahaa! BTW: to summarize the article, they suck-diddly-uck Flanders. Suzy B started looking a lot better. Actually no, but at least she looks like a coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureGirl Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 What stinks is, Washington looks like a coin, too... who ruined it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drusus Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 They dont look so bad George wasnt the most handsome man but I think they got a good portrait of him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishraider Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 I was wanting to collect them at first but after hearing all the reports from people who had actually got them I think I am going to save my collecting money for better things. So many errors cropping up on eBay already, its just so ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Maybe the best thing to do about the Presidential Dollars is to collect them from circulation. And safely ignore what you cannot get that way. That being said, I don't find the designs to be all that bad. Especially the Statue of Liberty looks interesting. Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureGirl Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 What I meant was, this George doesn't look like a coin somehow. Actually, I think he looks better on this coin than the Liberty side of it which is strikingly similar to a casino token I posted a link to pictures of it in another thread. Um, which makes me wonder, is it the first circulating coin in America to have $1 written out instead of "One Dollar"? That seems, to me, to make it much more classless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 I believe you are correct, this is the first circulating coin to use $1 instead of "One Dollar", though the platinum bullion coins have used the $ sign for the demonination since 1997 I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 What is a little odd IMO is that different fonts are used for the obverse and reverse texts. Apart from that ... hmm, maybe people in the US are so used to those various mottos on their coins that, once a piece does not have them, it is not recognized as a coin right away? As for the "$1", I like it. Then again, I am in a part of the world where the face value of a coin is hardly ever expressed in words only. So what may look strange in your view is perfectly normal in mine. (Well, "1 DOLLAR" would have been fine too. ) Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 My dad tried to get me a couple rolls yesterday but wasn't able to. One bank only allowed 5 coins per customer, the other had the rolls "reserved". He said they look cheap and were badly marked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Um, which makes me wonder, is it the first circulating coin in America to have $1 written out instead of "One Dollar"? That seems, to me, to make it much more classless. I don't like the liberty side either but I'll try to stomach it. The $ sign is by far, in my opinion, the worst part of the coin and, I mean this seriously, the worst thing I have ever seen on an American coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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