Comments on: US February Coin Production: 2012 Arthur $1’s, El Yunque Quarter Mintages Scarcest

By: Vicki Lowry

Vicki Lowry — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 21:45:35 +0000

I have a 2012 El Yunque misprint error coin. Puerto Rico and E Pluribus Unam printed backwards! Anyone else come across this?
Vicki

Vickipepper@yahoo.com

By: Adriane

Adriane — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:56:31 +0000

I want a Chester, too, and all the rest!
Dang it, I am not an avid coin collector, but I like the Presidents! I’ve got a nice frame on the wall for them all, and I’m not going to get any further…? 🙁

By: george glazener

george glazener — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:28:33 +0000

Clarence;
Just for that rude (but true) remark about obama, I’m going to GIVE you a free presidential coin every year out of my own collection. I mean really…poor old barry is only trying to fix it so that every single American can sit on their butt all day and do nothing while getting free health care, free food, free cell phones, free electric cars, free power, free cable, free condoms, free abortions (in case any of the free condoms leak), while taxing the ever living crap out of anyone left in the country who actually still has enough pride and integrity to do some real work. But I digress. yes, the US MINT will continue to
produce Presidential coins, but only in collector rolls which you may purchase from them.

By: Clarence Schiebel

Clarence Schiebel — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:41:37 +0000

What has happened? They are not minting anymore Presidential Coins. This is just great. After you purchase a great big catalog for all of them up to Ronald Reagen, then they go and do this, I would like to kn opw where I can order one coin of Chester A. Arthur. Can you let me know. This Obama Adfministration is for the birds. They should have impeaced him long time ago.

By: george glazener

george glazener — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:37:36 +0000

Well, since I don’t work for the Bureau of Engraving & Printing anymore, I can’t abolish the $1 FRN unilaterally. But the 2 cent coin idea is definitely getting some traction. If not Reagan’s mug on it, I say John Adams….2nd President and all that. How large to make it though? The public nearly lynched me for the Susan B. Anthony Dollar coin, even though I told everyone that it’s NOT a bloody quarter…!! I may have to slip it in between the dime and the nickel and bronze tone the thing.

By: Munzen

Munzen — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:55:47 +0000

Don’t forget Kill (the dollar) Bill – the savings alone could pension off every displaced Crane Paper worker for far more than most of us could dream of. Fill the gap between $1 and $5 with a modernized $2 bill, or maybe a small $2 coin like they have in Australia. TR did more for American coinage than any other president so he definitely deserves his place in the sun. And I can think of a couple of hundred people I’d like to see on a Famous Americans series -Thomas Edison, Mary Cassatt, Jonas Salk, Helen Keller, Duke Ellington, Mark Twain just for starters. Heck, I’d even go along with Elvis.

By: george glazener

george glazener — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:05:19 +0000

Good points guys. I guess I’m going to have to pull double duty up there as the new marketing director AND the new product release coordinator. I’ll whip those lazy govt. workers into shape. Here’s my 5-year plan: Abolish the penny, create a new 2-cent coin with Reagan on it, release only 100,000 Presidential Dollars a year, randomly plant 100% silver dollar coins in those P&D rolls (remember inserts in packs of baseball cards?), release way more commems each year and cut their production to keep them desirable, things like more Native American coins, more Military coins, and then start in on a famous American series. I’d change the dime from FDR to Teddy Roosevelt and sell them in collector P&D rolls (not forgetting the randomly packed silver dime…!). That oughta shake up the coin collector market a bit, eh?

By: FutureUser

FutureUser — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:23:27 +0000

Looks like abolishing the penny would give a 60% cut in production resources at the Mint. Considering that they are hardly considered a popular collector’s item any more, that might work well for both the Mint (cost savings) as well as the collectors (relative rise in value of pennies still circulating).

By: FutureUser

FutureUser — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:19:39 +0000

I’m still waiting for the 2012 Native Am’s too. Beautiful design, but when is the release date? Just need a few of those and a few Chesters.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:53:15 +0000

Huh, didn’t realize collectors bought and put away 5.7+ million presidential coins. There’s certainly nothing rare about these coins.

About releasing the coins – we all know how the deputy director of the mint can’t manage his way out of a paper bag or apparently make a decision to save his life, so it’s no surprise that coins that were once promised for middle of Feb have yet to be announced let alone actually delivered. Don’t hold your breath.