Ugliest U.S. Coin?????

Stipulated.

 

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Not me, man! Fourteen years before my elected boss HIRED me, I ran AGAINST him!

 

If I spent 10 years apprenticing I would hope I could do at least that. I know I could do better. I’m a millwright by trade and love doing the small microscope work and know for sure that I would be a master engraver in less time and producing fine examples. Remember these guys were really just sculptors working on a piece that’s the size of a large dinner plate. It’s not technically that hard. And when you get weeks and weeks to finish them how hard is it?

 

All software-based today, sir.

 

If it’s so easy start doing it then and producing pieces.

 

The old process will soon be as obsolete as candle-makers. Still an artsy niche, but nothing else.

 

Did I say it was easy? Just making a point hear that I know that if I went through the mint apprenticeship program like I went through my apprenticeship then I’d be DAMN good. But those jobs were not avalible to me so oh well.

 

Get me the commission and a stipend for the next 9 months and I’ll give you a coin design that rocks

 

Talent does not equal access. I thought we covered that upthread.

 

I think my favorite era is the first half of the 20th century.
I think it is difficult to find a truly ugly coin in that time frame.

One thing I think is odd is with the alleged sexism/racism of 'the old days' that almost all the coins feature either a woman or an Indian. It wasn't until much later that we started putting white men on coins. That is a puzzlement to me.

 

Sure, you can create a design that you like, but will the general public like it? I’m sure Barber loved his designs, but a lot of Numismatists hate them. I’m not one to start an argument, but until you create your design, you really don’t have the right to stipulate how good your design will be.

 

We did. Its just silly when people who aren’t doing it or even in the field at all come out with the I can do better if I wanted to stuff. Sounds like the guy who played little league saying he could be better than a pro if he wanted

 

You mean "Injuns", right?

 

Hmm. When and where I grew up, there WAS NO organized Little League, but we produced some pros. (And an NBA executive, and Knicks and Grizzlies coach, but that's another story.)

 

That’s surprising if you’re origionally from PA since little league was founded in PA

 

Yeah, we found it ironic too. Only a few hours from Williamsport, too.

 

Never realized that you were from Pennsylvania. My mother grew up in Lancaster and Centre Hall.

 

Reading - smack dab in the center-center of the city. Until age 16. College in Lancaster, various Reading-area locales for years, then most of the last 12 years in Amish country. Now I'm in center-center Harrisburg.

 

I’ve been to Reading a few times, that Japanese temple thing sticks out. I go up to State College every couple years and make the drive to Gettysburg.

 

Umm. Sir? Can we PLEASE make that "Japanese"? The Pagoda is my home town's very identity. Well, that and the fact that we built an obscene number of locomotives but have no recent passenger rail service.