2013 Native American Dollar Reverse

[kena]

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=25801&et_mid=582243&rid=2216851

Think they are doing a good job on this series of coins.

Ken

[kena]

http://news.coinupdate.com/ccac-reviews-native-american-dollar-design-candidates-1609/

I really hope they go for the two feathers design.

Ken

[chrisild]

Some of the turtle designs look interesting too. But if that actually means that some of the tribes or nations would be "excluded", as suggested in that article, then the feathers/quills it should be. The issue with the indication of the face value, well, I have always been amused by the American concept of avoiding digits like the plague but was similarly surprised when I first saw a mere "$1" on the Sacagawea Dollar

Guess those coins will, like the other $1 pieces, hardly ever show up in circulation. But the Native American series has had good designs so far, and they sure are affordable.

Christian

[kena]

The dollar coins in the US will never be popular since they still have the US dollar bill.
I like this series better than the President dollar series but will add both to my collection as long as my contact in the US can supply with me them.

Never really thought about why US avoid numbers, have to pause and think about that one since it never crossed my mind since the bills have numbers on them but the coins don't.  Very odd.

Ken

[chrisild]

Oops, I just noticed the mistake in my previous post. The "original" Sacagawea dollars did not have the dollar symbol and the digit yet; those came with the Presidential and Native American dollars. And sure, there have been US coins in the past that had digits too ...

As for why words insteads of numbers are preferred on modern American coinage, I don't know. On a large coin (e.g. a silver dollar) the value in words looks good, as you have lots of space. Otherwise ... well, I noticed that the current British coin series does the same thing: They went from digits to words. No idea why.

Christian

[kena]

Been looking thru the US Redbook of coins.

The two cent piece had the number 2 on it.
The three cent piece had the number 3 in Roman numerals.
Shield nickel (5 cents) had the number 5 on it.
Liberty V nickel had a Roman numeral V on it.  First ones did not say cents so the story goes that these were gold plated and passed off as 5 dollar gold coins.
Capped Bust Dimes (10 cents) had the number 10 on them.
Capped Bust Quarters (25 cents) had the number 25 on them.
Liberty Seated Quarters said Quar. dollar while later series all have said quarter dollar.
Capped Bust Halfs (50 cents) had the number 50 on them.

Change from the words one dollar to $1 started in 2009 as a result of the redesign bill of 2007.

Ken