Release New Dollar Coins

Well, technically it is just moved to the outside edge of the coin.

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm?action=$1coinFlash

 

Naw, don't worry, it's there, but in a different spot. E Pluribus Unum is there, too.

Link to Snopes (with pictures)

 

Your information is incorrect, gerald285.

It is on the edge along with the year and "E Pluribus Unum".

www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm?action=EdgeIncused

 

Anyone know what they're made out of?

 

Metal.............

 

It's the same as the Sacagawea dollar coin.

The coins physical makeup is a three-layer clad construction - pure copper sandwiched between and metallurgically bonded to outer layers of manganese brass.

- www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/golden_dollar_coin/index.cfm?action=sacDesign

 

Actually it's a bit more complicated than that!

"An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including “In God We Trust,” and are fetching around $50 apiece online."

Coins circulating without ‘In God We Trust’

Rob

 

Thanks Ken.

Kind of curious that the "Golden Dollar's overall composition" contains 0% gold.

"Section 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility." - Article 1 Section 10 U.S. Constitution​

 

Quick it's on Ebay, you can grab it for an easy $275 IF YOU ACT NOW!

GEORGE WASHINGTON DOLLAR

Rob
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sold....$380 and no, I didn't bid.

 

Yeah, I just heard about it while watching TV while walking on my treadmill.

Some of the coins from the Philadelphia mint apparently skipped the edging process and thus none of the edge inscriptions are on them. It's just one of those goofs that make collectibles even more collectible.

As someone who likes history I plan to subscribe to the yearly proof set of these coins. It only cost about $15 for all four coins.

 

If you want to boycott them, I would suggest you not buy booklets of first class stamps at a post office with a $20 bill in the machine. Before long you'll be getting dozen of them back in change when you do that.

As for boycotting money... maybe that's for another thread.

 

I'll accept that the misprint of the coins at the mint was not intentional, as mint errors have been around as long as the mints.

But what is intentional, in addition to the total removal of the word, liberty, is the removal of the two mottos of "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum" from the face of the coin. This has been shaded with the removal of the "mint mark" as well to the rim. Wanna' guess what is the least observed part of any part of a coin? And why do we need the name of a President as famous as Geo. Washington on the face for identification? I realize that Presidents John Tyler, James Buchannan, Andrew Johnson, or James Garfield, to name a few, might have faces not as well known as, say, Washington, Lincoln or Eisenhower to name three, but there still should have been room for the mottos, on the obverse, the mint mark on the reverse, and couldn't the names have been placed on the rim?

Ed

 

Too bad they didn't ask each and every American for his opinion, huh?

 

No kidding. A poll would have probably done the trick without asking everyone, but that is only my opinion.

Ed

 

I would have voted in a poll like that.

 

Of course it's intentional. It's the way they designed it and formed the casts. It's also a non-issue.

 

The "president's series" coins offer some interesting scenarios:

• Will they only mint William Henry Harrison dollars for a few days...the length of his presidency?
• Will the Nixon dollar only be distributed to incarcerated people?
• Will you be able to read the lips of the Bush 41 dollar?
• Would ANYONE put a Clinton dollar in their pocket?
• Could you trade a Reagan dollar to an Iranian for a hostage?
• Carter dollars should be interesting...they will start out worth a buck. Four years later, they'll be worth 11 cents.
• Will there be any grammatical errors on the Bush 43 dollar?
• Will Florida receive Bush or Gore dollars? Can they vote on it?

:laugh:

Now ya'll be nice...I was non-partisan...

 

Cute, I gotta admit!

Ed

 

It may well be a "non-issue", but it goes against some unwritten principles of our coinage for many years.

Ed