Comments on: Ronald and Nancy Reagan Coins for 2016

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 10 May 2015 18:32:30 +0000

Some U.S. Presidents have been honored by naming some aircraft carriers after them. Beginning with the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carriers are usually named after American admirals or politicians, usually presidents.

By: Jp

Jp — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:58:35 +0000

Victor I agree with you regarding our present “Fuhrer”, but the Queen?… I just don’t get the royals sucking up all that easy living off the Brits. Just doesn’t seem right to me. Don’t get me wrong, she’s probably a very nice Lady. How about a Reagan/ Thatcher coin?? Now, don’t get all uppity people. Just trying to keep this “politi-coin” thread going. 🙂 We could use some humor what with all that is going on this world.

By: Victor DeCurtis

Victor DeCurtis — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:17:15 +0000

Munzen, you hit it right on the head. Carter may just make it on the coin, he doesn’t look too spry, any more. However, if he does die, he will need the law to be amended for him, because either way, he won’t be dead long enough, before the series comes to an end. I agree, if you were a President of the United States of America, regardless of how well you did or how badly your performance of duty was, if you’re dead, and the series is still open, then by all means, stamp them out. Of course, although I won’t lose any sleep if the current occupant was to meet a meteor in his bed, I wish him three more years of health, so I never have to see his ugly mug on an American coin. Say what you will about the Queen, Boz, but she has reigned well and has always portrayed herself in a regal way. I watched her coronation and her marriage on a b&w Dumont television when I was a young boy. Damn, that was something. Those hamsters must have been really peddling those wheels to get the signal, all the way to NYC. 🙂

By: Boz

Boz — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:21:52 +0000

Let’s just put the Queen on the front of everything. Maybe a green frog on the back. Yuck!

By: Munzen

Munzen — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:19:40 +0000

This is not about a separate, standalone commemorative issue – it’s about a series that from its outset was intended to feature _all_ former presidents who are no longer alive regardless of their political legacy.

Just because the series is now into the modern era where people have personal views of a particular president shouldn’t change that criterion. I didn’t vote for Reagan, can’t forgive him for Iran-Contra or quadrupling the national debt and on and on but the fact is he was president and is no longer living. Those are the only requirements.

Or maybe we should have skipped W. H. Harrison (too egotistical to come in out of a storm, dead in 4 weeks), Buchanan (greased the skids for the Civil War), Harding (Teapot Dome; caught in a closet with his mistress), LBJ (Vietnam) and Nixon (say no more) – – ???

By: Whistler

Whistler — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:55:08 +0000

Politics not coins? Huh….Ronnie Raygunz was a loose cannon, Carter very book smart but a poor ‘boss’ Nixon, does his coin have him in a prisoner’s top? Ford, maybe a helmeted person nearby while he swings a golf club, GW Bush, a good guy, but too vanilla for most, Clinton, come one think of the designs that are possibile, Dubya Iraq mess, a fair leader, but Obama is the same type, someone ELSE is running the show….Obama cold be depicted with a rectal thermometer asking you to bend over for the USA…..

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:27:22 +0000

(Insert politically charged comment.)

By: Senior

Senior — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 05:19:32 +0000

There are no politicals that fit the script for all.The true American leaders role is to take a position to benefit all.Take a look who is this man it sure as hell isn’t our current president Carter may have been moral but was totally lost Kennedy had courage Bush was strong in the first administration but should have stayed away from Iraq.Regan was the last President who represented moral character.We as a nation is no longer respected as a world power.Nancy and Ronald works for me.

By: Vachon

Vachon — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 03:49:51 +0000

I was surprised Republicans didn’t jump at the opportunity when the Mint first announced the cessation of the Presidential dollar coin program with Ford to create a new law authorizing a Reagan dollar in 2017 to replace the Sacagawea design (and maybe even nix the dollar bill to get it circulating). I know they wanted to do the dime in 2011, even replace Hamilton on the $10. I guess this third chance has slipped them by…

By: jim

jim — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:00:49 +0000

I’m hoping that after the 2016 presidential coins Congress will do something it seems it’s loathe to do lately – act, by eliminating the penny and $1 bill (and $2 bill?) and modernize the US monetary system. Show some guts, communicate across the aisle, join forces and come up with a law finally puts the US in the 21st century.
Everybody laughing now?
It’s a shame that such hopes have to be reduced to laughter but there it is.