The new dollar coin presidential series means that Richard Nixon

[Hardrada]

and LBJ and Gerald Ford will finally be honored on coins. The new Nixon dollar coin! Should be real popular. The James Buchanan and Warren G. Harding coins ought to be real winners too!!

[Archae]

1. By the time the two Bush ones are out...

They won't be worth a tenth of a Euro. :shrug:

[Skink]

2. There goes the Reagan penny.

[Cobalt-60]

3. It was the only way

To get the criminal Republicon curs like Harding, Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, and the Shrubs onto a coin.
This can probably be stopped before the modern criminal coins get stamped.

[man4allcats]

8. "This can probably be stopped"

God! Let's hope so. A Dubya dollar...Good Lord! :eyes:

[Mabus]

13. Don't worry

more people will still rather have a Spiro Agnew watch in the future. The Dubya coin will be considered akin to a lump of coal.

[Hardrada]

17. I don't hate Hoover. He was an Iowan as I am and had a good

heart and really was good at humanitarian aid. He was just too ideologically narrow to be a good fit as a president. Harry Truman gave him a job helping the suffering in Europe after WWII.

[MisterP]

4. Ford, Reagan, & Nixon only worth 80 cents each

[stevedeshazer]

5. We're looking forward to the Millard Fillmore dollar

and Silent Cal. Those will surely cause a populist stampede at the U.S. Mint nearest you.

:)

[Archae]

6. You believe the fundys are already screaming about this coin?

They claim that "In God We Trust" isn't on them.

As always, they are dead wrong.
It's on the side of the coin.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp

[Mabus]

14. So, it's like Frodo's ring?

The writing is on the outside! Now that's something they should be able to incorporate into their mythos. :evilgrin:

[Hardrada]

27. That's an eerie comparison!

Sort of thing they'd like.

[Archae]

7. I just wonder...

How much blow I can buy with the George W Bush one. :evilgrin:

[man4allcats]

11. Not near enough to get you off!

That's for damn sure. It'd be just like Dubya. If he were ever inclined to sell it, he'd step on it so many times that all you'd get is a nose full of baking soda! :hippie: :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

9. It's a plot to get creepy old Republicans in America's pants.

:scared:

[Hardrada]

19. LOL! One way to put it.

[MiniMe]

10. I saw one at the bank today

Another dollar coin that will get confused with a quarter.

[NYC]

12. It still looks like a quarter?

Even the Sacajawea dollar wasn't very different.

[Hardrada]

29. Someone just gave me a Sacajawea (the name is part of the

problem. Hard to spell), dollar evidently mistaking it for a quarter. I found it later. I just keep them and the Susan B.'s and never spend them. I don't have a real trove of them. Maybe 25 or so since they are rarely in circulation.

[NYC]

31. I use them for the bus.

It costs $2 for the bus in New York, so I carry two of them in case I need to take the bus. (I keep them separately, not in the same pocket with the coins, or I would be spending them as quarters.)

[Hardrada]

36. That's a good plan. That's like how we used the pound coins

when we were in London. Just kept a little pocket of them.

[blogslut]

22. Yep

n/t

[Generic Brad]

32. Why can't they make the coin square or donut shaped?

Something that would distinctively set it apart from the quarter would guarantee it's success. Until that is done, US dollar coins are doomed to failure.

[REP]

15. Can't WAIT To Get a Tricky Dick! (But I'll Have To)

The series will end with Ford, but having the Tricky Dick Dollar ... life gets more and more like Futurama!

[Hardrada]

18. They'll have to have the Reagan penny after all.

[Wwagsthedog]

20. Lets hope we don't have a king dick II coin down the road

[lligrd]

16. If They Ever Decide To Put Out A Dubya Coin

I am refusing to take it.

[Hardrada]

21. Wise choice!

[Rhythm]

35. If the program goes that long, it will be about 11 years from now,

...but only if he's dead by then.

[Kickin_Donkey]

23. It's a backdoor way for the Pukes ...

to get St. Ronnie on a coin. Once that barrier is broken, they'll try to get him on another, common coin.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

24. I hear the William Howard Taft dollar coin...

...is five inches in diameter.

:evilgrin:

[Auggie]

25. LOL

:rofl:

[Hardrada]

26. And the Hayes one can only be used in soft drink dispensers.

[Goblinmonger]

28. Won't Bush have to die

before his dollar comes out? Living people aren't on money are they or is that stamps?

[Hardrada]

30. Dictators can be alive and on coins too like Franco in Spain

when he was alive but when dictators are dead then they disappear from the currency. This is a good test of whether Shrub is a dicktater or not. U.S. presidents duly elected must also be deceased to appear on coins or stamps. There WAS a Nixon stamp at one point by the way.

[Bucky]

34. You're right. But at four presidents a year, Carter & Poppy will probably end up making the cut.

Carter would be the last coin issued in 2016 and Poppy the following spring. They'll both be 92 that year--or they won't be. Actually, they're both avid joggers, so maybe they could be still around.

[Bucky]

33. I've already seen the design copy for the Harding coin

Honoring an American tradition...