Kennedy dollar coin...

Does anyone else think that the Kennedy portrait on the Presidential dollar coin looks a little off? To me he looks fazed - there's something about the placement of the eyes - and it even reminds me a little of Ted Koppel.


By contrast, the Jacqueline Kennedy portrait on the First Spouse coin looks gorgeous.


Only opinions...

 

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I think he looks like Mike Mezack after he sent in a bunch of ASE's to get graded and he didn't get enough MS70's.

 

The US Mint sculptor modeled that portrait after the official White House Portrait of Kennedy.



As you can see, the official portrait does not show Kennedy's eyes. When the sculptor added the eye's, it made the resulting image look stupid.

I would be embarrassed to have produced this crap and for the image to have passed muster with both the CFA and the CCAC is a testament to their complete ineffectiveness and incompetence as coin design committee's.

Folks see lots of different things in that coin but what I see is Jon from the Garfield Comic strip and his bug eyes.

 

BTW, this one will look even worse as a reverse proof.

 

I believe that you're right. The eyes aren't depicted correctly. At any rate, they look odd. Even so, I'll get the Coin & Chronicles sets . Chances are that I'll never open the sets to see JFK anyway.

 

There were four proposed designs and this was my least favorite. Some of it is the strange eyes and some of it is the fact that the coin is so out of character of the presidential series.

 

What is that whizzing sound??

 

LOL. Well played.

 

I thought I might try googling a picture of Mike Mezack sad to post for comparison, but apparently Google is pretty unforgiving.



It's late enough that I laughed at this for a good 30 seconds.

 

I always thought that Marilyn Monroe was the First Lady during that time?

 

You can't be serious.

 

To him and Bobby

 

Ha

 

Ted I guess was too young at the time.

 

The portrait of John Kennedy looks like he got caught cheating on his wife ..

 

I agree, his portrait resembles some one else, maybe a young Ted Koppel.

 

I just plain and simple don't like it.

 

Demeaning to the man, and his family...

 

The portrait of Kennedy was painted after the assassination and is intended to reflect the country's sadness over the tragedy. It is actually based on a picture of Ted Kennedy taken at the grave site at JFK's funeral.

 

Clarified...but it's been over 50 years now, and to mint a coin with that particular picture in mind, at this point in time, is a bit silly in my opinion.

JFK's legacy in my view is not the assassination, but the optimism of being America, and challenging us to put a man on the moon.