Republicans want Reagan on the Dime
Some Republicans want Reagan on the Dime
Currently, Lincoln is on the Penny, Jefferson on the nickel, FDR on the dime, Washington on the quarter, Kennedy on the half-dollar, and Sacajawea on the dollar.
Currently we have 1 Republican (Lincoln), 2 Democrats (FDR and Kennedy), 1 person who was a Republican-Democrat (Jefferson), Washington who was neither, and a Native American.
I will agree that the 2-1 favoring of Democrats could be considered unfair, but to replace it with a 2-1 favoring of Republicans is not the answer. We should create a new coin.
How about reinstituting the half-penny (aka haypenny)?
addendum:
The explanation of the one California Republican in the article above really makes a lot of sense. To paraphrase: "Reagan means more to me than FDR because he's more recent and he's from California."
Well...how about Clinton? He's even more recent, and he's from the Midwest. And I'm from the midwest too...so I can identify with that.
That aside, I can understand why the guy, when looking for a recent Californian Republican, chose Reagan. I understand why he doesn't want to push that other recent Californian Republican - but at least the other recent Californian Republican has something else going for him - he's dead. We in the US like to wait for that before immortalizing someone on coinage. (By the way - for those who don't know, Nixon's the other Californian Republican.)
If we are going to start immortalizing live people, and they want to use the dime, I have a novel approach. How about our first two-headed coin? Reagan on one side and Clinton on the other? I bet you could get huge bi-partisan support on that bill. Both were very popular presidents, even though both had their individual controversies. Whether for good or ill (and the debate could last for decades on that one), both had a huge effect on this nation.
Submitted by
nobody
at 12/5/2003 12:39:16 PM- purchase a roll of 2003 Kennedy half dollars directly from the US Mint
The US has issued Kennedy Half Dollars annually since 1964.
That said, you don't see them very often. And they probably don't issue nearly as many as the other coins.
Submitted by
nobody
at 12/5/2003 12:53:17 PM- here's the stats for each coin in 2003. That is, how many were produced by the US Mint. Slightly less half dollars have been produced as Sacajawea dollars, and both numbers are dwarfed considerably by the other coins. But they are in circulation. Interestingly, as recently as 2000, seven times the number produced this year were produced...it appears that once Bush got in office the number dropped.
the half-dollar is obsolete. that shouldn't count.