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Re: 2022 is the first year women's faces will appear on U.S. quarters.

By: weco1 in FFT4 | Recommend this post (0)
Thu, 06 Jan 22 9:17 PM | 20 view(s)
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I guess, since retiring, I haven't carried coins in ages... I have some bank bags of coins I need to turn in, mainly pennies, I think, but with the use if debit/credit cards, rare use of even checks, coins seem to have vanished, other than a few in the bottom of drawers, and the few in collections from ages ago.. Likely won't see the new quarters in a long time...

Times changed, no more day to day cash/coins at coffee shops, no need for coins for parking meters, bridge tolls, etc...

I've a couple coin counting setups, one a simple gravity feed, sloped sorter, the other a motorized spinning disk with an adjustable out gate.. Had a lot of coin tubes to go with 'em, tossed most...

Antiques!


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Re: 2022 is the first year women's faces will appear on U.S. quarters.
By: oldCADuser in FFT4
Thu, 06 Jan 22 8:38 PM 		Msg. 02803 of 13945

Yes, I've already signed-up with the US Mint to pre-order the proof version of these coins for my collection.

Many people are not aware of a federal law that prohibits the depiction of a living person on any coin or stamp. Since Jimmy Carter is still alive, this is why there's a 'gap' in the Presidential Dollar series and why in the end, they will not have been issued in the order that the presidents held office.

There was a bit of a controversy when they issued the US stamps commemorating the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 and then again in 1994 on the 25th anniversary and then in 2019 for the 50th. The issue was that for the first two stamps, both Armstrong and Aldrin were still alive and when the last one was released, Buzz Aldrin was alive. The postal service got around the federal law by not showing the actual face of the astronaut on any of the stamps, they instead simply showed a reflection of the Moon's surface on the astronaut's face shield. They also didn't include the name tag on their space suits so you couldn't really tell which astronaut was being depicted, and since TWO people had walked on the Moon and only a single astronaut was ever shown on the stamps, this gave the Postal Service 'plausible deniability'.


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