Comments on: 2025 U.S. Marine Corps 250th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Designs Announced

By: Rooster

Rooster — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:30:37 +0000

Major D: Hard to believe 20 years has passed since the 2005 Marines commemorative’s were issued. I was all in back then and will be all in when these become available. It is more fitting that a commemorative is issued for 250 years vs. 230 years IMHO. Thought it was odd back then but realizing all the veterans who have passed or may not see the day for a 250th made it all the more reason to have them available. God Bless our military and their families.

By: John Q. Coinage

John Q. Coinage — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:32:03 +0000

Another Marine coin,huh, when is the Gomer Pyle $1 released…..

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 03:41:39 +0000

Can’t wait to see the final stamp. Will be adding to my collection.

By: Donald

Donald — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:33:43 +0000

Will these gold-clad coins be available in $25 rolls?

By: Christo

Christo — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:19:11 +0000

In reply to VinnieC. Maybe if a certain individual is returned to office in the upcoming election the conversation concerning the obverse will become moot since he'll want his likeness on all of them. Just a thought.

By: VinnieC

VinnieC — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:39:45 +0000

In reply to CaliSkier. I think some of the proposed reverse designs I could live with for the 2026 dime, quarter and half. For the obverse designs, I'm have a hard time even picking one. I thought that the US Mint was going to do like in 1976 and only make major changes to reverse. I was so wrong. I found the 2026 penny and nickel to be underwhelming, but now I am thinking less is better.

By: CaliSkier

CaliSkier — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:45:04 +0000

Reply to comment in previous thread re: coin designs. Kaiser, although I’m not opposed to new designs or a modern flare potentially, new designs IMO shouldn’t be perceived or come off as having, “checked off a box”, nor representative of an arcade token, a carnival, circus, tagging/graffiti or arts and craft fair trinket. In their appropriate venue/place, any of the above can be appreciated and enjoyed, if one so chooses, however, not on our United States Coinage, please. When one of the above “styles” of art achieves “Dynasty”(Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Chinese) status, perhaps we can reconsider? Yes I’m aware, that entertainment performed in those aforementioned dynasties may have influenced the modern “circus”. Or maybe, if one of the above named, becomes or gets recognition as an architectural or building style? Just saying…
PS I’m not saying the list above isn’t art, it’s just not art we should be considering for placement on our coinage IMO. That is unless we are trying to provide additional confirmation, the U.S.A. has evolved into a roving, rogue, “circus” and become a bunch of “clowns”?

By: CaliSkier

CaliSkier — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:42:52 +0000

Ok, for the sake of comparison, why can’t the artists, submitting renderings for other coins or con programs, follow a similar pattern of reverence and class, that they apparently were able to use for submissions that were in consideration for these Marine Corps coins? You don’t see any silly, outlandish, strange, “woke”, or other oddities offered? Why? Because we recognize the “esteemed” status of the Marine Corps? Why not a similar reverence, trend, depiction or rendering for other proposed coins? Ponder…