American Coin Currency Query.

[mawnansmiff]

I have a coin collection dating back to my early teens with coins from all over the world. My question is a simple one, how many presidents other than Washington and Lincoln have appeared on your coin currency.

I have examples of both the above presidents plus some with the head of a Native American on them but that's it.

Here of course we have QE2 on all our coins (and stamps too) which will of course change when Charlie takes over. How come you don't have a fresh issue of coins featuring every president after he is elected?

PS:This is a serious query.

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[mikestanley]

Franklin Roosevelt has adorned the dime since 1942 or 1943. John Kennedy has been on the half dollar since 1964. Dwight Eisenhower was on the "silver" Dollar beginning in 1973 IIRC through 1978. I cannot think of any others but there may be some commemorative coin with other(s).

Mike S.

 

[Grangerous]

Penny - Abraham Lincoln
Nickel - Thomas Jefferson
Dime - Franklin Roosevelt
Half Dollar - John F Kennedy
Half Dollar - Ben Franklin NP
Silver Dollar -Dwight Eisenhower

 

[scloyd]

How come you don't have a fresh issue of coins featuring every president after he is elected?

Oh boy, that's all we need.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Cheers guys, now you mention it I do have a Kennedy half dollar!

However the others mentioned are all new to me. My collecting was clearly not serious enough ?

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[Waning Embers]

How come you don't have a fresh issue of coins featurin

They feature presidents that were in office during, or influential in greatly historic events.

Lincoln oversaw Union efforts to defeat the Confederacy, and he subsequently pushed for the abolition of slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation.

Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt served the U.S. during two of our toughest times, the Great Depression and World War II. Accomplishments during his tenure include the New Deal, a series of government reforms designed to help pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression. A key component of the New Deal was the Social Security program.

George Washington became our first president after commanding the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and presiding over the Constitutional Convention. The website for Mount Vernon, which was Washington’s Virginia estate, notes that the two-term president “played an essential part in shaping the role and function” of the presidency.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the youngest person ever elected president. He served less than three years. During that relatively short amount of time, JFK launched the Peace Corps, proposed comprehensive civil rights legislation, and challenged the U.S. to put astronauts on the moon.

His 1963 assassination “turned the all-too-human Kennedy into a larger-than-life heroic figure. To this day, historians continue to rank him among the best-loved presidents in American history.

 

[mikethompson]

Oh boy, that's all we need.

Haha!

Honestly Jay, don't give them any ideas

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt served the U.S. during two of our toughest times, the Great Depression and World War II. Accomplishments during his tenure include the New Deal, a series of government reforms designed to help pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression. A key component of the New Deal was the Social Security program.

Roosevelt pushed the "March of Dimes" to help stamp out polio, so he was commemorated for his efforts by being put on the dime.

 

[beefeater33]

How come you don't have a fresh issue of coins featuring every president after he is elected?

Jay-
There is a federal law in place that prohibits any living man or woman from being on coinage.
In 2007 the Mint started a $1 coin program which featured the presidents. There were 4 releases per year, but they never became popular. It seems $1 coins aren't in favor over here, for some reason.................

 

[mawnansmiff]

Duane, thanks for that perfect explanation, it answers my question perfectly ?

"There is a federal law in place that prohibits any living man or woman from being on coinage."

Beefeater, that is something I never knew so thanks for the contribution.

Regards,

Jay.?.

 

[mso489]

Millard Fillmore would be on our ha'penny if we had one. Naw.

 

[danimalia]

Jay-
There is a federal law in place that prohibits any living man or woman from being on coinage.
In 2007 the Mint started a $1 coin program which featured the presidents. There were 4 releases per year, but they never became popular. It seems $1 coins aren't in favor over here, for some reason.................

It is interesting that the larger denominations aren't very popular here in the U.S... I seem to recall 1 and maybe even 2 £\€ coins being real common in Europe. I wonder if maybe we think of pocket change as being a bit more disposable and $1+ is a bit too much to be so casual with?

 

[mikestanley]

I suspect there will be some changes made to our coinage and currency in the near future so, I suggest you get to work on your collection sooner rather than later.

Mike S.

 

[mikestanley]

Jay-
There is a federal law in place that prohibits any living man or woman from being on coinage.
In 2007 the Mint started a $1 coin program which featured the presidents. There were 4 releases per year, but they never became popular. It seems $1 coins aren't in favor over here, for some reason.................

Who wouldn't rather have nine, one dollar bills in their wallet over nine coins in his pocket?

Mike S.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Danimalia, we do actually have a £5 coin but they are rarely seen. I once gave one to a bus driver for my fare and his face was a picture to behold. He thought I was giving him funny money!

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[mso489]

For a while, dollar coins were issued with the idea that they would serve to operate beverage and food and other vending machines, but they didn't catch on. Right now I think there is a shortage of coin circulation because of limited in-person retail, and coins pool, maybe at banks. It is questionable whether pennies and nickels serve much purpose, but they are still regularly used. I still use coin/change in purchases, but I do accumulate coins in a coin jar to keep them from overflowing my dresser coin dish.

 

[crawdad]

Aren’t there a few Reagan coins that were minted?

 

[Zack Miller]

Throw in Grant for the fifty dollar Bill.
And Jackson for the twenty.

 

[BROBS]

Danimalia, we do actually have a £5 coin but they are rarely seen. I once gave one to a bus driver for my fare and his face was a picture to behold. He thought I was giving him funny money!

Regards,

Jay.?

That’s what happens here when you give someone $1 coin or a $2 bill.

keep an eye open for US coins pre-1960 as they are solid silver. (Besides the penny and nickel)

 

[cosmicfolklore]

keep an eye open for US coins pre-1960 as they are solid silver.

Just for clarification, the pre-1965 coins are 90% silver (some even ranging more like 80%), otherwise known as "junk silver." It is really hard to refine the silver out of them, losing a lot of it in the process. I get people who want me to melt them down make things out of coins all the time, and they are always perplexed because they've been told it is pure silver.

Yes, they have more value, but they do not equate the live silver prices at all, nor do they "work" in the same way as sterling or fine silver.
I know this is off track, but I just thought throwing that out there might prevent misconceptions in the future.