2015-S Lyndon B Johnson Presidential Dollar

http://catalog.usmint.gov/2015-presidential-one-dollar-coin-proof-set-PE5.html

Is it just me or does the LBJ dollar look like Rodney Dangerfield? Saw it on an auction on Ebay today and did a double take.

 

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I get no respect...........

 

He looks grumpy and in need of some gaseous release!

 

Not surprising. The likenesses in this series have been hit and miss. Mostly miss.

 

My psychiatrist told me I'm crazy. I told him "If you don't mind I'd like a second opinion." He said "Alright, you're ugly too!"

---Rodney Dangerfield

 

Lol. Rodney was the best. Sad day when he passed about 10 years ago.

 

God, I loved that guy........

 

Rodney rules!

Chris

 

Me too Ken! Think I will fire up Caddyshack now

 

These four presidential dollars are not the best designs. Harry Truman, probably the best portrait of the four, looks like the political commentator George Will.

 

Don't forget "Easy Money" and "Back to School"!

Chris

 

Oh Lordy......I don't want to go back to school.........

 

Classics for sure Chris!

 

Ken, if we went back to school THEN knowing what we know TODAY, what do you think would happen? Forget about coins!

Chris

 

Big bust Chris? Heck, I could of been one hell of a basketball player.

 

My pool game really didn't need that much improvement. Maybe I should have married one of my high school sweethearts.

Chris

 

They're often (all?) based on known photos and/or official portrait paintings. (JFK's downward gaze seems to "inspired" by his official portrait.) But the things that work in photos and paintings aren't necessarily the things that work in coin sculpture.

 

True. But don't rule out the possibility that it's simply the result of inept sculpture.

 

Well if we weren't smart enough to keep our mouths shut, we'd probably get locked up for being delusional. (Go back to the early 60's and tell them the actor who did "Bedtime for Bonzo" was going to be elected President and cause the fall of the Soviet Union.)