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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
4:13:00 PM EST
Hearing Where Will I Be -- Emmylou Harris
Working on the principle that no harm could be done to the coins because no one uses them anyway, the US Mint is fiddling with the $1 coin:
New dollar coins featuring all 37 of the nation's dead presidents will begin rolling out of the U.S. Mint in 2007 under a bill Congress is sending to President Bush.
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4:13:00 PM EST
Hearing Where Will I Be -- Emmylou Harris
Dead Presidents
Working on the principle that no harm could be done to the coins because no one uses them anyway, the US Mint is fiddling with the $1 coin:
New dollar coins featuring all 37 of the nation's dead presidents will begin rolling out of the U.S. Mint in 2007 under a bill Congress is sending to President Bush.
Lawmakers hope the coins -- and an accompanying $10 gold piece for collectors featuring former first ladies -- will be a big money raiser for the government like the 50-state quarter program. They also hope the dollar pieces will rev up interest in the Sacagawea dollars, which have been little-used.
"The dollar coin is a valuable educational tool -- much like the 50-state quarter series -- that will help inspire interest in the history of the leaders of our country," Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., the sponsor of the legislation, said in a statement. It passed the House 291-113.
What's really curious is that Grover Cleveland would get two coins because he had non-consecutive terms. No, I'm not kidding. It's in the article.
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Interesting John..any speculations on if it will work or not?
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Oh John, you are so funny, especially about Millard Fillmore! Love, IKOWSKY of IKOWSKY'S JOURNAL.
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I can see James Buchanan going on the Three Dollar Bill, unless I'm getting the joke wrong.
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Oh boy, Gerald Ford isn't feeling well. I bet someone at the mint is chipping away to make his likeness as we speak. As for presidential legacies, I think his wife should be on the coin instead, with a picture of The Betty Ford Clinic on the b-side.
Usually, I get a bunch of coin dollars spit back at me if I buy postage stamps from and machine with a $20 bill. When I use the coin dollars to pay for something I feel like some poor slob who just raided their piggybank to buy a bottle of MD 20/20. (maybe we do need the Betty Dollar).My best bet is getting rid of them by making my kids use them for school lunch money.
12/15/05 10:39 PM
Dianne