The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 7, February 18, 2007, Article 5

U.S. DOLLAR COINS DEBUT

Articles appeared this week in newspapers across the country announcing
the rollout of the new Presidential dollar coins.  Typical of the
treatment was this article from USA Today:

"Commuters bustled past the unveiling in New York City at a Grand
Central Terminal event replete with marching music and a George
Washington re-enactor.

"Crowds of collectors and the curious lined up in the station's
cavernous, chandelier-adorned Vanderbilt Hall to exchange their
paper Georges for metallic ones.

"'I think it's cool because we get to see a coin with the first
president on it', said 7-year-old Jack Garbus, an avid coin collector
and second-grader from Valhalla, N.Y., who was taking advantage of a
school snow delay to be at the event.

To read the complete article, see: Full Story

Here's another example, from the San Francisco Chronicle:

"Jack Beymer, a rare-coin dealer in Santa Rosa, agreed that the new
dollar could be a hit with the younger set.

"'It's kind of an educational thing,' he said. 'I think it will bring
new people to the hobby. With the quarter, a lot of grandmothers came
in and bought quarters for their grandchildren with the maps. They'd
come in every time a new state came out. It formed a regular attraction
for coins in general.'

To read the complete article, see: Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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