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07-01-2009, 02:07 AM
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The reason I really hate the SBA's is that they have actually cost me money (when I used them as quarters)
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07-02-2009, 11:40 PM
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The new native american dollar there is a jarring discordance in style between the obverse and reverse design, and what is with that weird font they used on the reverse. It looks like they just threw it together. UGLY.
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07-03-2009, 03:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: T-Town Beat Down, Michigan
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Why is every one hatin' on the old Sac's (2000-2008)..they, IMO, are by far the most beautiful coin for modern (bussiness strikes anyways)
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07-03-2009, 03:39 AM
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Oddly, I find myself in tune with the group this time. SBAs and Ikes would make my list of least favored series.
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07-03-2009, 03:43 PM
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| | Treasure Hunter
Join Date: May 2005
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I don't have much use for any coin except copper cents and silver and gold coins of any type.
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07-03-2009, 04:10 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Missouri
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Originally Posted by coleguy  Thats a tough one, Stain. I don't think I really "hate" any particular series of coin. I will say the coin design I dislike the most has to be the Barber design. I still like to collect them for the challenge, but I do dislike the drab design, even more so than the SBA.
Guy~ | I agree with all of that. I don't hate any of them. But I really don't like Barbers. Liberty looks like a dude.
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07-03-2009, 05:50 PM
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I would have to say that several of the modern gold commems are really ugly! I'd not want to pay even melt for most of them.
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07-03-2009, 05:56 PM
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#38 (permalink)
| | doggone it people like me
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Well, I don't hate anything. Except this :
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07-03-2009, 06:54 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Albany, New York
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actually I thought the SBA portrait was George Bush SR. in drag.
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07-03-2009, 07:33 PM
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Here's an answer from a different point of view: not my own preferences but observations of others.
The coins in history which have actually inspired HATRED seem to be those with a political message, express or implied. During the English Civil War, the King's coinage had his six-word slogan on the reverse, in Latin naturally; Parliament's coinage had inscriptions in English, to emphasize how non-Catholic it was. The King's supporters called Parliament's coinage "breeches money"--this was not intended to be polite.
Did the same happen in the War Between the States?
At a lower level of emotion, most all coins less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter have in their time inspired ANNOYANCE at being too small for practical use. The US dime--and its UK equivalent the 5 pence piece--are just about on the irritability boundary.
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07-03-2009, 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by John the Jute Did the same happen in the War Between the States? | Not with coinage. Early in the war, the Confederacy siezed the Mints at New Orleans and Dahlonega (Georgia), but did very little with them; they had almost no gold or silver for making coinage.
There were some coins minted by the Confederacy; genuine examples are quite spendy.
I suppose there were some tokens which might have inspired some emotion, but emotions were already running very high due to much weightier issues. I doubt coins or tokens fanned the flames very much compared to the underlying issues of the day.
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07-03-2009, 09:14 PM
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#42 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Originally Posted by John the Jute At a lower level of emotion, most all coins less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter have in their time inspired ANNOYANCE at being too small for practical use. The US dime--and its UK equivalent the 5 pence piece--are just about on the irritability boundary. | The Fractional Gold coinage of the California Gold Rush were WAY beyond the limits of irritability !  Imagine a micro-coin with 25c worth of gold.
Very interesting history in those if you're interested.
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07-03-2009, 10:21 PM
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#43 (permalink)
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Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Long Island, New York
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Originally Posted by John the Jute Here's an answer from a different point of view: not my own preferences but observations of others.
The coins in history which have actually inspired HATRED seem to be those with a political message, express or implied. During the English Civil War, the King's coinage had his six-word slogan on the reverse, in Latin naturally; Parliament's coinage had inscriptions in English, to emphasize how non-Catholic it was. The King's supporters called Parliament's coinage "breeches money"--this was not intended to be polite.
Did the same happen in the War Between the States?
At a lower level of emotion, most all coins less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter have in their time inspired ANNOYANCE at being too small for practical use. The US dime--and its UK equivalent the 5 pence piece--are just about on the irritability boundary.
Later,
John | You nailed it John....
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07-03-2009, 10:23 PM
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#44 (permalink)
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Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Long Island, New York
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Originally Posted by SapperNurse The ASE set...proof and uncirculated
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The statehood quarters.
Now dont get me wrong, I have complete collections of the UNC ASE and the complete state series, but i just dont' like them....collecting them is only because it completes my sets.
I do like the idea of the prez's some work coulda been done oin them, but I like the premise....the Forgotten President Collection? lol | Totally freakin' disagree....
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07-03-2009, 10:30 PM
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| | Coin Hoarder
Join Date: May 2008 Location: UP of Michigan
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IKE's and SBA's
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