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Originally Posted by Troodon  To be honest I agree with Breen's assesment... the androngenous man or woman in the smurf hat with the scrawny eagle on the back doesn't strike me as very inspiring, and the fact that he just reused the exact design on the quarter and half does strike me as pretty lazy. I could almost forgive the design as just old-fashioned... but the Morgan dollar is a beautiful design that came out earlier than this, so can't use that excuse. Feed that eagle something!
I'm also bigger on collecting by type rather than series most of the time. Just get one each of the best example of each type you can reasonably afford I say... what's the fun of getting several of the same coin where the only difference is the date printed on it?
To each their own I suppose. I got my one Barber dime and that'll do it for me. |
and the image on the mercury dime appears distinctly female??? Or any of the gold indians, or the indian head cent??? just because the image is classical doesn't make it androgynous. As for the "smurf" cap it is a phrygian cap: a soft, conical cap represented in ancient Greek art as part of Phrygian or oriental dress and associated, since the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the liberty cap. In addition, no eagle on the back of the dime, a wreath, yes reused from the seated series, but only from 1860 as the wreath prior to 1860 was quite different, also the wreath as it was designed in 1860 was quite nice, so why not reuse it. As for the Morgan dollar...it has had its detractors as well, although I find it just as beautiful as the barber dime
