The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 53, December 18, 2005, Article 7

BUSH GETS NEW COIN DESIGNS BILL

Dick Johnson writes: "The U.S. Senate passed and sent
to the president the bill to create four new designs
for the reverse of the cent -- and commence striking
dollar coins bearing president portraits and bullion
coins of their ladies -- all beginning in 2009. We
have written about this in E-Sylum before: v08n50a19.html

The news was carried on ABC news, channel 7 in Chicago
the following day. Illinois will be a state honored by
one of the four new Lincoln cent reverse designs.
However the news broadcast carried one sentence with
two errors:

"The redesigned pennies will feature four designs on
the coin's reverse side."

All collectors know the American coin is a cent, not
a penny. The other:  "reverse side" is redundant.
"Reverse" means "back side."   It's like saying the
"back side side."  Send that station's continuity
writer back to school.

Wanna read the broadcast story? Click on: Full Story "

[The bill also calls for versions of the coins in the
"exact metallic content" of 1909.  Dave Lange writes:
"This is for the collector editions only. It's the same
idea as the .900 fine silver proofs made since 1992. The
real question that remains is whether the circulating
cent can survive until 2009 in its present composition.
I'm certain that the Mint's creative accounting is hiding
the fact that it costs more than their face value to
manufacture and distribute these coins."  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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