What Seven said. It was minted in 1916 and 1917 (apparently for just part of both years).
After I logged off last night I dug out an old coin grading book I have to refresh my memory. I note that on the earliest quarters, the bust of Liberty has some very obvious cleavage (who says numismatics is dull?). However, the eagle on the reverse was a rather anorexic-looking critter.
Sorry, “the people” just aren’t always right. You don’t have a constitutinal right to have dollar bills, any more than you do for a coin denomination of 43 cents. The purpose of a currency system is to faciliate commerce, hopefully in the most convenient form possible.
The coins we have now are so infinitesimal in value in relation to the things we buy that it’s reached a level of utter foolishness. Even a quarter is hardly worth anything now; you’d need about fifty of them to buy burgers, fries, and sodas for two people. Coins were originally meant to be used for the small stuff like that, but we need 50 quarters to buy those things (or about 12 dollar bills–a good way to get rid of them if they’ve been bulking up your wallet).
And the Sacagewea dollar didn’t flop, it never had a chance, since the armored carriers universally resolved to resist them.
I think all the dollar coins have the same ‘profile’ or whatever they call it, from a vending machine’s point of view.
But damn, it shouldn’t be rocket science anyway. Did Germany’s economy become a heap of smoking ruin when all those old German coins–they had 6 or 7 in everyday circulation–were replaced by various denominations of the Euro?
Sorry, I didn’t see that this was a zombie!!
I like the new design. It’ll be the first US coin to have the denomination on it in numerals. That oughta help out the non-English speakers, who have traditionally had a rough time with our coinage.
Don’t you guys see that this is just another way for them to make money? With them making the “commemorative” coins, they’re going to be collected just as much as the state quarters were. And when someone gets one, and keeps it, the government just made a dollar this time instead of a quarter. And they the have all of the merchandising attached to them. The dollar coin folders, wall posters and yearly uncirculated sets. All this is, is another way for the government to make money off of the hourly grunt. No offense intended, I happen to be an hourly grunt.