12-28-2003, 01:34 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: near Chicago
Posts: 3,025
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Originally posted by Lilith
2004 nickels will feature the Louisiana Purchase and 2005 nickels Lewis & Clark...I think, if I remember right.
I understand the quarters but I am not for all this just to spur coin collecting. I think it cheapens the value of our $$ in the eyes of others.
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As far as I know, none of these coinage programs have had ANY effect of the value of our currency, and the new $20 is far uglier 
Both the new nickels are to be released in 2004 actually:
http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs...n=nickel_series
(scroll to the bottom of that page for the images - the obverse is to stay exactly the same, as I understand it).
The new designs should have taken effect in 2003, the actual anniversary year of the Louisiana Purchase, but the first coin is to be issued early in 2004, and the other, marking the Lewis & Clark anniversary, will be released late in 2004. (And I'm constantly reminded of Gary Larson's various jabs at Lewis and Clark, but I digress). |