About my "Famous Dogs" Half Dollar Redesign idea
malanu...@aol.com
doggie dollar legislation, that, maybe I should just suggest that the
half dollar coin remain the same size it is, instead of confusing
people with a smaller one, but I'm not sure.
So, should I suggest the new "Husky Halves" to remain the same size as
the Kennedy halves? I mean, is it possible that there are some very
few vending machines out there that take the current halves, other
than casinos? And also, could vending machines be programmed to accept
the current size half, if it started to widely circulate? (I heard
from someone that, vending machine faceplates do not cost much, so I
was wondering if I could get the vending industry interested in
retooling for a circulating half) If vending machines and self-
checkouts dispensed halves, then they WILL circulate, because, people
will be getting halves in change that way, and even though I heard
that the U.S. Mint, the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and vending
industry do not want it, it will circulate to an extent, same as if
machines dipensed $1 coins and $2 bills. If these four places do not
want halves though, why mint them?
Jon Purkey
>I've been thinking for a while now that, maybe if I do suggest my half
>doggie dollar legislation, that, maybe I should just suggest that the
>half dollar coin remain the same size it is, instead of confusing
>people with a smaller one, but I'm not sure.
At this point, I hate to see another coin program. We will already
have at least another 10 years for the National Parks Quarters. And
the Presidential Dollars will run until 2016. Plus there are the 4
Lincoln Cents this year and I am not sure how many alternate Sac.
reverses there will be or for how long?
So while a new and smaller Half Dollar might be nice, any program for
Famous Dogs or whatever else should wait until some of the other
programs have ended.
Jim Menning
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I don't like some of his ideas either. Coins from the US should actually represent
something about our history or ideals. If we start making dog coins, we will then
have to do cat coins, butterfly coins, bird coins, tree coins, flower coins, etc. We
really don't need that kind of crap. It makes us look like those countries that
strike coins and mint stamps solely for the collector markets, never intending them
to actually be used as coins or stamps.
I don't (or certainly hope) that our government never actually considers his ideas.
They are just too childish.
mazorj
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Coin coins! A series of quarters memorializing the various forms of
the penny. Dollars depicting all the nickel issues. Around and
around she goes...
Jim Menning
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> Coin coins! A series of quarters memorializing the various forms of the penny.
> Dollars depicting all the nickel issues. Around and around she goes...
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Next we'll have to mint Zodiac coins. Get the new ones at your bank each month.
Bruce Remick
Why not resurrect the "spinner" token design for some of our larger coins?
At least they then would have a more useful purpose. And it would create
jobs. And it would encourage the use of one particular stimulus. And be
green. And reduce our carbon footprint. And so on.
Jon Purkey
Actually, a series of coins reproducing classic coin desings could be
interesting. It is certainly more interesting (to me) than the
National Parks series will be.
Bruce Remick
I can't picture our National Parks being represented very clearly on a one
inch quarter. But I guess I'll be able to before too long.
malanu...@aol.com
> "Jon Purkey" <room321_em...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Hold on, buddy. You misunderstood my proposal. The proposal for the
dog coins, was to honor famous police, military, fire, rescue, and
sled dogs that served man kind, and often, lost their lives. (This act
does NOT include famous movie dogs, like Lassie, or Old Yeller, but
rather, dogs that have actually served a purpose to help man kind.
Now think. Have you ever heard of "police butterflys" or "military
trees" or "rescue flowers" etc.
Please read my posts, and understand them, before you go bashing them.
Jim Menning
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> Please read my posts, and understand them, before you go bashing them.
I read them. But once you get your dog fetish coin series, what will the next guy
want?
malanu...@aol.com
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Well, I have heard of rescue cats being used at Ground Zero after the
World Trade Center collapsed, going into the rubble to find survivors,
I like cats a lot too, but I'm still not convinced that honoring cats
is justfied, since they, nor any other animal species, has served man
nearly as loyal as the dog has. Dogs have served man kind, long enough
to be honored, and since there is actually a statue of Balto in
Central Park, in New York, I'm sure that dog "coins" wouldn't be too
far fetched. Its not like the dog coin series will be going on
forever, and eventually, Kennedy, or maybe even someone else could be
pictured on the new half, after the 9 year dog program. Wouldn't it at
least be interesting, even if you did not like the dog series, to see
what was put on the half, next?
mazorj
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Well, the smallest one is the Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial.
It's 0.02 acres inside a Philadelphia row house. If it were a square,
it would be less than 30' on a side. That might work. :-D
mazorj
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> Now think. Have you ever heard of "police butterflys" or "military
trees" or "rescue flowers" etc.
Well, we do have Army homing pigeons, Navy dolphins, seeing-eye pigs,
and coal mine canaries to honor. ;-)
> Please read my posts, and understand them, before you go bashing
> them.
Where's the fun in that?
Bruce Remick
Okay, that's one....................... Oh, wait a minute. National
MEMORIAL? Is that the same as a National PARK?
mazorj
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>> "Bruce Remick" <rem...@cox.net> wrote in message
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>>> I can't picture our National Parks being represented very clearly
>>> on a one inch quarter. But I guess I'll be able to before too
>>> long.
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>> Well, the smallest one is the Thaddeus Kosciuszko National
>> Memorial. It's 0.02 acres inside a Philadelphia row house. If it
>> were a square, it would be less than 30' on a side. That might
>> work. :-D
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> Okay, that's one....................... Oh, wait a minute.
> National MEMORIAL? Is that the same as a National PARK?
I'm sure there's a technical distinction, but google "national parks"
and "smallest" and it's the one that pops up. Maybe the National
Memorials are a special subset of National Parks that don't include
natural resource areas such as forests and lakes, just smaller
swatches of significant areas like battlefields. Coincidentally, the
smallest National Cemetary is not far from us.
Bruce Remick
The ones around here seem to be getting closer to me, too.
Googling further, you would find that Delaware is the only state with no
National Park at all. If the "First State" has gone all this time without
finding anything it deems worthy of being designated a National Park, it may
be too late to suddenly see the light just to have something to show on a
quarter.
mazorj
Maybe they could designate the entire state as a National Memorial to
commemorate its role as the preferred haven for issuers of credit
cards and other companies seeking favorable rules of incorporation.
Or Dow Chemical could lobby for a National Memorial with a "Better
Living Through Chemistry" theme. Or... well, that pretty much
exhausts the list of possibilities.
Delaware definitely needs something of distinction to make it
memorable. Except for the northern corner, 90% of Delaware looks
exactly like what it really is - an extension of the Maryland/Virginia
peninsular farm land, chicken farms, and beaches. If it weren't for
the differences in road signage while driving north, you'd never know
that you had crossed the Maryland state line.
Bruce Remick
I usually use it as a quiet shortcut from Virginia to New Jersey, but once
took summer vacations at Bethany and Rehoboth Beaches.. I always thought
Delaware was most famous as a corporate tax shelter for registering
commercial vessels. I've seen them all around the world-- both pleasure
craft and large commercial vessels-- with "Delaware" on the stern beneath
the name.
Otherwise, yeah, it's one of those states with no state income, sales, or
personal property tax. Not a bad place to retire, if you get away from the
cities.