USA 2011 Mint Set

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This is a Christmas gift from wifey.  A 2011 US mint Set.  It contains:

5 2011 US Dollar Coins
   Andrew Johnson
   Ulysses Grant
   Rutherford B Hayes
   James Garfield
   The 2011 Sacagawea with Wampanoag Treaty Reverse.

I am pretty sure the USA NEVER kept a treaty with any native tribe and usually broke them in very short order so I find that a very odd thing to commemorate.  Actually it tends to be one more little thingy that feeds my occasional cynicism.  I guess it is a nice enough design although not to my taste design-wise.

2011 Kennedy Half-Dollar

5 2011 US Quarter-Dollar Coins
   Gettysburg National Military Park
   Glacier National Park
   Olympic National Park
   Vicksburg National Military Park
   Chickasaw National Recreation Area

2011 Roosevelt 10 Cent Coin
2011 Jefferson 5 Cent Coin
2011 One Cent (Shield Reverse)

This is the D mint half of the set and the other half is the P mint coins.  So let me see...total of 28 coins equaling $13.82 face value. 

The cost of the set from the Mint is $31.95 plus about $4.95 shipping totaling $36.90 USD.  That is 2.67 times face value.  I like these sets, am glad to get it but I won't try to convince anyone they are worth the price.  The Garfield dollar I got from the bank for a dollar is as good as the one in the package so a set theatrically could be put together.  Since many of these circulation coins don't circulate much this is the only reliable way to get them.

Dale

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Jefferson looks a bit Frankensteinish, or is it the light?

I don't know about breaking treaties, but I seem to remember there were enough treaties made for a tradition of presenting the Indian chief with a large gold medallion. Ironically, this was a Roman invention. Judging from such things as early office buildings with pillared facades, names of government institutions, like Senate, and naming conventions with cognomen , earlier Americans seem to have been quite taken  in by the Romans.

Peter

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The Jefferson has a lot of shine to it and coins like that don't scan well for me.

The early Americans were certainly fans of Roman accomplishments especially in architecture.
Considering classics was a major area of study for education back then, it is understandable.
They did a lot both to be admired and condemn but it would be wrong to judge a society from
an out of context, modern viewpoint I think.

Dale

Jefferson looks a bit Frankensteinish, or is it the light?

I don't know about breaking treaties, but I seem to remember there were enough treaties made for a tradition of presenting the Indian chief with a large gold medallion. Ironically, this was a Roman invention. Judging from such things as early office buildings with pillared facades, names of government institutions, like Senate, and naming conventions with cognomen , earlier Americans seem to have been quite taken  in by the Romans.

Peter

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Not judging, justobserving. It may also have had to with neo-classicism being fashionable at the time. I have heard that pillared facades are thought of as Dutch. That must be a misunderstanding. I know more British pillared facades than French and I can't remember any Dutch ones...

Peter

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I kinda veered off a little and was commenting on judging Roman culture.  I go off on a tangent ocassionally. 

Dale

 

Not judging, justobserving. Peter