Coins used to be beautiful.

Another neat coin, I think, is the liberty cap large cent.

 

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Who are you trying to kid??? Look at the mug on the “Morgan”, are you trying to tell me that if you woke up with her laying on your arm in the morning after bar hopping the night before that you wouldn’t try to knar off your own arm so you could leave without waking her up?


Talk about a photo definition of “Coyote Ugly” :devil:

 

We've had the Lincoln Cent for 104 years now. Jefferson Nickel, 75. Roosevelt Dime, 67. Washington Quarter, 75. Kennedy Half, 49.

Most of these designs have been around for more than one third of our country's existence!

A change to the design of our coinage is long overdue!

 

Modern American Coinage has zero character compared to older Coinage, like Morgan Dollars or Indian Cents. I'd have to completely agree with this. What has happened to Miss Liberty's pretty design? Nah man, use ugly Eisenhower!

 

The "Libertys" of yesteryear are much better than the "dead presidents" we have today.

 

When Liberty was replaced with some figurehead, our country was starting the long slow decline to an eventual oblivion. Think about the Roman Empire and how their emperors started showing up on the coins and then what happened to the empire.

 

Are you trying to say that there is a direct correlation between
putting images of real people on coins and the downfall of governments?

 

A direct correlation would be a bit of a stretch, but think about it.



Doesn't Miss Liberty and her Phrygian cap say a lot more about an ideal than some presidential portrait?

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

We will never have beautiful designs on our coinage ever again. The ideals of liberty and freedom put forth behind the designs of yesteryear no longer reside in the minds of (most) Americans.

 

Dead Presidents all have statues in DC. That's all the memorial they need. Take them off of our coins and bring back the beauty. The mint should hire some real artists.

 

Fine- change it to Peace dollars.

 

I really don't care for the Morgan dollar design, the obverse. But I would much rather see Anna Williams as Miss Liberty than some pickled presidential idol.

 

Lotsa non-circulating beauty out there in the commem series. I can think of several I'd swap for JFK in a heartbeat, and they don't necessarily need to be female symbols. One dandy would be the Army half's reverse, with a throw-back in design to the bicentennial quarter reverse. Another would be Miss Liberty on the reverse of the Smithsonian commem, or most of the platinum designs... But as has been said in recent editorials, politics is just too concerned with re-election to suggest removing any of the presidents, and tarnishing one's own political name and future.

 

What's more beautiful: Some young hot babe on the street or your wife of 30 years?

 

1936 Texas commem half. Slap that design on the current circulating 50 cent piece, and watch the current flood of quarter collectors expand.

Or, if you can't get rid of the dead presidents, maybe just start changing all of the reverses.

Either get rid of the penny, or change up that shield on the reverse...boring!

 

You are 100% correct. The complete lack of relief is killing the aesthetics of our coinage. To your point, here is photographic proof.





So they gave Tom spaghetti hair and improved the detail on Monticello. The cheekbone is gone, the jawline is gone, the coat collar is gone. And so is the luster associated with the relief of the design. Modern Jeffersons are like boxed wine.

 

I think the main issue is high relief vs. (today) low relief. Who would ever like a coin whose details wear off after a week in heavy circulation?

 

When I was a kid, I collected Morgan and Peace silver dollars and Mecury dimes. (I was a paperboy.) They were all in cirulation. The Morgans were my favorites. I did have to sell my silver dollars in 1980 so I could move to Reno.

 

The rise and fall of governments is of little consequence compared to the quality of their coinage.

 

The large cent is one of the top 5 designs of all time.