Talk:Jefferson nickel

Coin related articles do not require people to be shown only on coins (just my 2¢)
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but in this article, and several related coin articles, I think the use of coins as depictions of people (e.g. Nellie Tayloe Ross in this article) is unnecessary and somewhat confusing. Why was this coin picture favoured over an actual image of her?

The image in this case doesn't really add anything to the article, and if a reader is skimming, they are likely to make the fair assumption that images of coins on the Jefferson nickel article will be of or relating to the actual nickel, rather than people involved in judging a related design competition.

To attempt an analogy, in his article it is not needed for portraits of Pablo Picasso to only be shown in a cubist artist's interpretation.  Je b us 9 8 9  ✰ 11:13, 13 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't say you are wrong, and given the choice between a contemporary image and a medal, I'd go with the image. However, the image of Ross is from 16 years before the events of Jefferson nickel, and she is wearing a dress which she no doubt wore for social reasons.  The medal is at least roughly contemporaneous to Jefferson nickel (it was made 1933 or after, Sinnock, the designer, was alive until 1947 and Mrs. Ross stayed in office until 1953) and it has to do with her function as director of the Mint.  Keep in mind also that Mint medals are guaranteed public domain, since they are always (at least in the last 150 years or so) designed in-house, the Act of 1890 which allows the Mint to hire outside designers for coins says nothing about medals.  I'm hampered by the fact as well that 1938 is in the copyright era, so I can't use images like Schlag's original accepted design, or contemporary images of him, or even the images from him from the mid 1960s, when Coin World was campaigning for FS to be put on the nickel.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:18, 13 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Several valid points! Thanks for the comprehensive response  Je b us 9 8 9  ✰ 13:58, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Mintage?
Seems like an article for a type of coin should include mintage by year. Such information would be easy enough to acquire and cite. Just a thought. Eric Cable |  Talk  13:08, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * That's been done for other denominations, but generally the practice with numismatic FAs is that we spin those out to separate articles and link them from the main one, unless the table is short, as for example, twenty-cent piece. No objection if anyone wants to compile them, you can take them out of the Red Book.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:15, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Timing
Wow, how's that for timing! This was the featured article on the very day that the U.S. Nickel was in the news! Samsung pays Apple $1 Billion sending 30 trucks full of 5 cent coins! Well, in the fake news anyhow... No, Samsung did not try to pay Apple its $1bn fine in nickels --MelanieN (talk) 16:49, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Now a FA in Chinese Wikipedia
I have translated this article to Chinese Wikipedia here and promoted to FA status, and I want to thank User:Wehwalt for his effort to write this amazing article. --Jarodalien (talk) 08:36, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

P Mint Mark
May the following text in the article be clarified? It is unclear whether it means that ALL or only SOME of the war-time Philadelphia coins have the P mark. Because the text ends with the phrase "if struck there" it may be interpreted to mean that some war-time years have both marked and unmarked Philadelphia mints for the same minting year. Here is the current text: Philadelphia Mint specimens before 1980 lack mint mark, except for wartime nickels, which have a P for Philadelphia if struck there. Tesseract501 (talk) 19:54, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

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