U.S. Sen. Harkin: Praises passage of act to honor national parks on quarters
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U.S. Sen. Harkin: Praises passage of act to honor national parks on quarters
12/11/2008
HARKIN PRAISES PASSAGE OF ACT TO HONOR
NATIONAL PARKS ON QUARTERS
Legislation will keep jobs in the Cedar Rapids
area
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
today praised the passage of the America's
Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin
Act of 2008. The bill will help keep jobs at
Cedar Rapids' PMX plant that were created in
2005 by increasing the production of $1 coins.
PMX produces the metal sheets that become dollar
coins, quarters, and dimes. The legislation,
which Senator Harkin strongly supports, must be
signed by the President before it becomes law.
"I am pleased that Congress passed the National
Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act, which honors
national parks and sites in every state,"
Harkin said. "Not only will this bill keep
good-paying jobs in Cedar Rapids, but it will
also promote historical treasures in Iowa and
across the country."
The bill requires the quarters, which will
be issued beginning in 2010, to have images
of one national site from each state, the
District of Columbia and territories of the
U.S. The U.S. Treasury will produce five
quarter designs each year.
..
Isti Mirant Stella
Just last week I snapped the last state quarter into my Dansco to complete
the collection. For ten years I had carefully sorted through dealers'
stocks at shows and in shops to find the most perfect specimen of each P and
D available. 100 years from now, that collection will be worth...$25.
Oh well, this will give me incentive to live another umpteen years, and
something numismatic to do in the interim. And, as the article suggests, it
will be good for Iowa.
Bob Rudd
nos...@nospam.com says...
I'll pass on collecting this boring boondoggle. It's the numismatic
equivalent of a bridge to nowhere.
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I hope we can all be good neighbors online!
malanu...@aol.com
> In article <B9-dnctPX-Uc7tzUnZ2dnUVZ_tfin...@earthlink.com>,
This is a disaster. I wanted us to have normal quarters again after
this year. Not we have those stupi territory quarters for 2009, and
then "how" long with these National Park quarters, be released for?
Now, if they can do 50 (or whatever) different dollar coin designs and
100 different quarters, I see NO reason not to do my "Famous Dogs"
half dollar series. It might breathe at least a pinch of life back
into the half, even though not much, for circulation, but, there would
be collector demand for they coins. And I will continue to argue that,
if they can keep reesigning all of these damn coins, they can spend a
little more money to redesign the $1 and $2 bills, since we will
likely be stuck with them, a long time, if not forever.
"Roßert G. Schaffrath"
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> U.S. Sen. Harkin: Praises passage of act to honor national parks on quarters
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> 12/11/2008
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> HARKIN PRAISES PASSAGE OF ACT TO HONOR
> NATIONAL PARKS ON QUARTERS
Wonderful (NOT). Enough of this already Congress. There are too many
coins and too many designs. I guess I will vote with my wallet and just
stop buying all the sets I have been from the U.S. Mint. This program
is unwanted and unneeded. Next we will start issuing quarters for
sports teams, local politicians and anything else the Congress thinks
they can get payback for. I had really hoped to see a regular quarter
again after the Territorial Quarters program.
Perhaps this newest program will be such a money loser for the
Government that it will get canceled before it gets too far. I can only
hope and will do my part.
shreadvector
wrote:
Next program that will last 629 years:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31003
Bruce Remick
"shreadvector" <fred.e....@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:102db1ff-360b-4da1...@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
If this program was begun in 2006, as the article states, the pennies are
apparently being released secretly only in the counties they feature, with
the stipulation that they can only be distributed in change by local
businesses. To assemble the whole set, one will have to travel to each of
the 629 counties and shop at a local business to obtain examples. Or (gasp)
trade with other collectors. "Collect 'em ALL!!" I foresee still more
buffalos coming. A 21-page album should handle the complete set.
Paul Ciszek
In article <49281f7a-73c2-4570...@r28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
<malanu...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>This is a disaster. I wanted us to have normal quarters again after
>this year. Not we have those stupi territory quarters for 2009, and
>then "how" long with these National Park quarters, be released for?
I assumed that we were never going to return to the better profile of
GW on the obverse in any case.
Just how quickly are quarters "used up", anyway?
--
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Michael G. Koerner
> In article <49281f7a-73c2-4570...@r28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
> <malanu...@aol.com> wrote:
>> This is a disaster. I wanted us to have normal quarters again after
>> this year. Not we have those stupi territory quarters for 2009, and
>> then "how" long with these National Park quarters, be released for?
>
> I assumed that we were never going to return to the better profile of
> GW on the obverse in any case.
>
> Just how quickly are quarters "used up", anyway?
I recall seeing a figure about two or three years ago that showed that the
state quarters program was making so many coins that the USMint could
completely stop making quarters on that date and not have to restart
production for 4.5 years - that was the Federal Reserve and Treasury 'vault'
supply on that date. That was the #2 supply of coins, timewise, with #1 being
half dollars (they have an undefinable time supply). Dollars were somewhat
low, only a year or two vault supply at that time.
As happened in Canada with their Twonies, look for demand on the USMint for
new quarters to drop a LOT once the $1 banknote to coin transition is (ever)
completed, too.
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Michael G. Koerner May they | | | | | | rise again!
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shreadvector
> "shreadvector" <fred.e.shec...@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
>
> - Show quoted text -
Every article in "The Onion" is as factual as you analysis of coin
issues.
Dave Allured
They can get away with THIS, and yet they can't stop making pennies??
Yuck!!!!!!
--Dave
Bruce Remick
__________
You rarely display a sense of humor or an interest in light sarcasm here, so
I can only presume you mean it when you say The Onion's 2006 claims about
those 629 county cents is factual. Otherwise, why would you have botherrd
to insert the link to it, except maybe out of habit? At least my opinions
and analysis on various coin issues are always expressed in print, like most
others here, rather than via impersonal links and chides that people already
should have researched and discovered the information for themselves.
MJKolodziej
"Bruce Remick" <rem...@cox.net> wrote in message
news:Yyu0l.26265$v37....@newsfe01.iad...
You're not as funny as The Onion. 3,143 counties , 629 YEARS, not counties.
mk
how many pages?
Jon Purkey
>Now, if they can do 50 (or whatever) different dollar coin designs and
>100 different quarters, I see NO reason not to do my "Famous Dogs"
>half dollar series.
An animal coin series would probably be quite popular, not by coin
collectors, but by all the pet lovers in the US. It would not have to
be Famous Dogs either, just breeds. That way they could do cats too.
Jon Purkey
<mgk...@dataex.com> wrote:
>As happened in Canada with their Twonies, look for demand on the USMint for
>new quarters to drop a LOT once the $1 banknote to coin transition is (ever)
>completed, too.
How much do Canadian $1 and $2 coins weigh compared to a Canadian
quarter? The weight ratio for US Dollars to quarters is 7:10, so just
wondering how that compares to some other countries?
Jon Purkey
wrote:
> A 21-page album should handle the complete set.
Hmm. 3,143 coins x 2 for P+D = 6,286 divided by 36 cents per Dansco
page equals 174.6 pages. And in 100 years the coins would be worth
$62.86. :)
Scott Stevenson
According to Charlton, the Canadian quarter weighs 4.4g, the loonie
7g, and the twoonie weighs 7.3g
take care,
Scott
"reference desk"
Bruce Remick
"MJKolodziej" <mjmwcsREMOV...@htcomp.net> wrote in message
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Gulp!
malanu...@aol.com
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:13:01 -0800 (PST), malanutt4l...@aol.com wrote:
> >Now, if they can do 50 (or whatever) different dollar coin designs and
> >100 different quarters, I see NO reason not to do my "Famous Dogs"
> >half dollar series.
>
> An animal coin series would probably be quite popular, not by coin
> collectors, but by all the pet lovers in the US. It would not have to
> be Famous Dogs either, just breeds. That way they could do cats too.
No. I would rather have it be famous dogs. The main purpose for
issuing famous dog coins, is to honor Balto. The sled dog that save a
bunch of people by delivering a syrum from Anchorage to Nome Alaska to
cure an outbreak of diphtheria. There is actually a Balto statue in
Central Park in New York.
Jon Purkey
Oh. I thought you were talking about fictional dogs, such as Lassie.
Guess that pretty much rules out a cat series then. :)
Henry Mensch
> Guess that pretty much rules out a cat series then. :)
it's a short series: garfield and morris.
PC
"Henry Mensch" <hmxsf...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Jon Purkey wrote:
>> Guess that pretty much rules out a cat series then. :)
>
> it's a short series: garfield and morris.
>
And Toonces the driving cat (obscure, but there).
Bruce Remick
"PC" <P...@Minneapolis.mn.us> wrote in message
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Don't forget the Cheshire Cat and any number of preditory cats from Clarence
and the MGM lion to Tony the Tiger.
RWF
Don't forget Top Cat (close friends get to call him TC); Sabrina The
Teenage Witch's cat, Salem; Sylvester; Tom (of Tom & Jerry)
PC
"RWF" <R...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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OMG how could we have forgotten Felix the Cat. And Itchy from Itchy and
Scratchy.
PC
Wait - Itchy was the mouse, I think. Scratchy was the cat.
Henry Mensch
that's fuel for a whole news series which feature toonces driving off
the cliff in various national and state parks!
Jon Purkey
Yeah, there are lots of fictional cats. But any real cats, like the
sled dog (Balto) that delivered the syrum to the dying people in
Alaska? Cats pretty much just eat and sleep. :)
Bruce Remick
"Jon Purkey" <room32...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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When they want to. Everything with cats is "when they want to." Like when
the neighbor's cat wants to spend the night on my new car in the carport and
decides to puke on the nice convertible top. The neighbor says I should
maybe get a car cover. I can't decide whether the neighbor or the cat
should become extinct first.
Aladdin Sane
And how about the Warren G. Harding $3 bill? Could put the FBI building on
the reverse to honor ol' J. Edgar.
Michael G. Koerner
Anyone remember King Cat (from an obscure, short-lived comic strip)?
PC
> "Jon Purkey" <room321_em...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:08:17 -0600, "PC" <P...@Minneapolis.mn.us> wrote:
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> >>"RWF" <R...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> >>> "Bruce Remick" <rem...@cox.net> wrote in message
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> >>>>>> Jon Purkey wrote:
> >>>>>>> Guess that pretty much rules out a cat series then. :)
>
> >>>>>> it's a short series: garfield and morris.
>
> >>>>> And Toonces the driving cat (obscure, but there).
>
> >>>> Don't forget the Cheshire Cat and any number of preditory cats from
> >>>> Clarence and the MGM lion to Tony the Tiger.
>
> >>> Don't forget Top Cat (close friends get to call him TC); Sabrina The
> >>> Teenage Witch's cat, Salem; Sylvester; Tom (of Tom & Jerry)
>
> >>OMG how could we have forgotten Felix the Cat. And Itchy from Itchy and
> >>Scratchy.
>
> > Yeah, there are lots of fictional cats. But any real cats, like the
> > sled dog (Balto) that delivered the syrum to the dying people in
> > Alaska? Cats pretty much just eat and sleep. :)
>
> When they want to. Everything with cats is "when they want to." Like when
> the neighbor's cat wants to spend the night on my new car in the carport and
> decides to puke on the nice convertible top. The neighbor says I should
> maybe get a car cover. I can't decide whether the neighbor or the cat
>
> - Show quoted text -
I vote for the neighbor.
PC
> PC wrote:
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> >>>> "PC" <P...@Minneapolis.mn.us> wrote in message
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> >>>>>news:0036acab$0$9216$c3e...@news.astraweb.com...
> >>>>>> Jon Purkey wrote:
> >>>>>>> Guess that pretty much rules out a cat series then. :)
>
> >>>>>> it's a short series: garfield and morris.
>
> >>>>> And Toonces the driving cat (obscure, but there).
>
> >>>> Don't forget the Cheshire Cat and any number of preditory cats from
> >>>> Clarence and the MGM lion to Tony the Tiger.
>
> >>> Don't forget Top Cat (close friends get to call him TC); Sabrina The
> >>> Teenage Witch's cat, Salem; Sylvester; Tom (of Tom & Jerry)
>
> >> OMG how could we have forgotten Felix the Cat. And Itchy from Itchy
> >> and Scratchy.
>
> > Wait - Itchy was the mouse, I think. Scratchy was the cat.
>
> Anyone remember King Cat (from an obscure, short-lived comic strip)?
>
>
Sorry, no. But you did remind me of Bucky who is in a comic strip.