Dockwalliper Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Not only do they seek to redesign the reverse of the Sackie but they want to change the name too. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-585 Sakakawea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBobo Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 10 friggin years of presidential dollars and now this. "$1" indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureGirl Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 10 friggin years of presidential dollars and now this."$1" indeed. Read my mind AAUGGGHH!!! Can we vote against this somehow? And, "Sakakawea"? What on earth is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted March 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 Read my mind AAUGGGHH!!! Can we vote against this somehow? And, "Sakakawea"? What on earth is that? Call your Senator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 What a waste of the legislative calender, taxpayers money, and an insult to Native Americans. How about doing something constructive like appropriating and dedicating some of these funds towards education programmes and better school facilities for Native Americans? Unless the tribe has sold out and put a casino on the res. in which case they have great school facilities, reservations tend to have miserable schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 This is the end. The feds have "jumped the shark" and we are now at a point like the classic commem proliferation or the 58 commem dollars for the 1996 Olympics. There is too much being offered by the mint and almost all of it is CRAP!!! From now on, unless it's a stunning commem design (like one's using Morgan or Longacre's reverses) I will be content to just buy the proof and mint sets to update my albums and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 This is the end. The feds have "jumped the shark" and we are now at a point like the classic commem proliferation or the 58 commem dollars for the 1996 Olympics. There is too much being offered by the mint and almost all of it is CRAP!!! From now on, unless it's a stunning commem design (like one's using Morgan or Longacre's reverses) I will be content to just buy the proof and mint sets to update my albums and be done with it. The SF mint commem last year was my first mint purchase in years, and probably the last for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpnyc Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 This is the end. The feds have "jumped the shark" and we are now at a point like the classic commem proliferation or the 58 commem dollars for the 1996 Olympics. There is too much being offered by the mint and almost all of it is CRAP!!! From now on, unless it's a stunning commem design (like one's using Morgan or Longacre's reverses) I will be content to just buy the proof and mint sets to update my albums and be done with it. I came to this conclusion last year. I went a step further and sold all my proof sets and will just buy commems that have a compelling design. Period. Let's hope they don't screw with the Proof Silver Eagle program so I don't have to get rid of that set too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 I came to this conclusion last year. I went a step further and sold all my proof sets and will just buy commems that have a compelling design. Period. Let's hope they don't screw with the Proof Silver Eagle program so I don't have to get rid of that set too. I actually thought about that, the only thing I'd like to keep are the silver proof sets since I have a complete run from 1992 on, and then selling the others. Then again I probably wouldn't get that much for them, so maybe I'll just let sleeping dogs lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henare Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 honestly? i'd rather have these than the presidential dollars. this is, imho, yet another money grab. last time i wrote to my senators about this one was silent and one was all "it's all about seigniorage." how can you fight that sort of brain death?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burks Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 More crap from the Mint. I'm glad I can't afford most of the coins the Mint puts out, or else I'd be really, really angry. Only commems I have are the Marine, Franklin, and the SF Mint ones. Bought those purely because I liked the design. So far behind on the sets I don't bother any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just carl Posted March 3, 2007 Report Share Posted March 3, 2007 It's really a good thing that there are no starving people, no homeless, no one without medical insurances, no disabled, etc. Due to all this perfect society our government can just waste millions or billions on messing around with coins that most people don't want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted March 3, 2007 Report Share Posted March 3, 2007 It's really a good thing that there are no starving people, no homeless, no one without medical insurances, no disabled, etc. Due to all this perfect society our government can just waste millions or billions on messing around with coins that most people don't want. Governments believe they solve problems by printing or stamping out more money. In fact, they create more problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureGirl Posted March 3, 2007 Report Share Posted March 3, 2007 And unfortunately the only way to make them sit up and take any notice at all is by more people voting for underdog parties. Maybe if one of them get up there, SOMEONE will listen to us when we call our senators and ask them to do something about anything ranging from our disinvolvement of the genocide in Darfur to the waste of money on hopelessly failing numismatic efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyd Posted March 3, 2007 Report Share Posted March 3, 2007 Tell Mr. Cheney there's oil in Darfur and see how quickly things will change... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted March 3, 2007 Report Share Posted March 3, 2007 Sakakawea Seems that is not actually a new name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea#Name As for the spelling ... oh well. But yet another $1 coin program?? Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 What a waste of the legislative calender, taxpayers money, and an insult to Native Americans. How about doing something constructive like appropriating and dedicating some of these funds towards education programmes and better school facilities for Native Americans? Unless the tribe has sold out and put a casino on the res. in which case they have great school facilities, reservations tend to have miserable schools. I think the mint actually runs a positive balance sheet so it can' really be a waste of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBobo Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 I would call it a waste. There are other things they can do rather then produce a whole series of flat fugly dollars. They could use the money and the resources to develop a die that can make an attractive high relief coin in one strike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreasureGirl Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 I would call it a waste. There are other things they can do rather then produce a whole series of flat fugly dollars. They could use the money and the resources to develop a die that can make an attractive high relief coin in one strike. Seconded. Why did they get away from those in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted March 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 The mints high speed presses don't do high relief well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dockwalliper Posted March 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Their hope is that if they make the sackies more collectable demand will eat into the huge glut of Sackies they have created with the President dollar coin program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 I would call it a waste. There are other things they can do rather then produce a whole series of flat fugly dollars. They could use the money and the resources to develop a die that can make an attractive high relief coin in one strike. Like medals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stujoe Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 This is the end. The feds have "jumped the shark" and we are now at a point like the classic commem proliferation or the 58 commem dollars for the 1996 Olympics. There is too much being offered by the mint and almost all of it is CRAP!!! My 1900-present set stopped dead in its tracks when they introduced the Presidential dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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