Sir Kaiser, thank you for your most eloquent response. Your detailed and most thorough explanation is most heartedly received and appreciated. Yes, we are on the same page apparently. As you know, Sir Kaiser, I do not post comments frequently, only when something strikes me in a way that I must respond. Thank you again for all your sentiments and the excellent comments that make this site so very entertaining. You seem to be the backbone and principal player to keep things interesting as well as educational. Stay well my learned friend!

Sir Kaiser, I think you misunderstood my comment. In fact, I was in agreement with you regarding your reply to Major D, who was registering a complaint and you questioned his frivolous complaint. I must also say that I have NEVER questioned your intentions. As for claiming that “this kind of response” has occurred on “all too many occassions,” what are you talking about? I have treated you with the utmost respect, not to mention being in agreement with you 95% of the time. Let’s all of us chill.

for the record i’m sure >99.9% of people will recognize it as a quarter without issue, probably because most people barely glance at their change to notice anything unusual. but a few will notice it and most of them will say something along the lines of ‘hey that’s neat’.

but there will be a few who will be upset about it being ‘not normal’ and then complain about it enough that it could become a PR problem for the mint, and then the mint will have to apologize and promise not to do anything too ‘unusual’ like that again, and we’ll be back to having terribly bland but ‘safe’ coin designs for a while.

i’d love to be wrong about this, but i fear that i am not.

Major D,

It is indeed the “dead presidents” side of our current 5 denominations of circulating coins that is the obverse of the coins.

Fun fact: On the China Mint’s popular annual panda bullion coins, the panda design is the reverse (with a new design each year) – the obverse is the date/temple side.

NumisdudeTX

morgan,

Believe it or not, many people still do not know Lincoln is on the 1-cent coin since 1909…sad but true.

NumisdudeTX

the design of the jovita idar coin is one of the best and most innovative the us mint has adopted in years. if someone doesn’t realize this is a washington quartrer — hint: there’s a portrait of washington on the flip side — then we’ve got a real serious problem. of course, all this assumes that people are aware that it’s washington on a washington quarter.

c-q,

You sure are right about that. I love the design of the Idar quarter, but the obverse looks more like an art medal or token & the denomination is “hiding” inside the design. Most cashier’s at stores will not know what the heck this coin is…

NumisdudeTX

that would make sense for this design, but I’m also wondering why the US typically don’t use arabic numerals on coins like most other countries do. makes it hard for the foreign tourists

I was noticing the jovita idar quarter being unusual with all the usual required coin verbiage worked into the art itself. i’m sure once they go into circulation someone will complain about it and it will cause a big fuss