The New Dollar Coin: American Innovation

Your a blessing. You crAck me up

 

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I'm very concerned about how the obverse looks. What is shown is 'old' and 'been there, done that'. I'm sure they can be more creative than that! If they want collectors to buy these they'd better be more creative than that!

 

I just don’t think they have the time. They need to have the 2018 version up in 2018. Doesn’t leave a ton of time to work in design.

 

Find any artistic shot of Liberty, run it through CAD, and out comes a galvano. Just about anything would be better than that, and it wouldn't take much more than a week.

 

The obverse IS a complete embarrassment. I don’t see WHAT they can do with the 2018 reverse to both satisfy the CCAC and comply with the law, too. They griped about the quill pen? Get a grip, CCAC.

 

It's not as if they don't have the funds or access to skilled artists and engravers. That's the part I don't understand. Why make a cheap looking design?

 

Committees aren't known for artistic vision or talent.

 

Bring back the bicentennial design contest winners. They're still around, aren't they?

 

I think we should have a retro dollar coin series with all the dollar designs used from 1792-1978, each year will be a different dollar coin design from the past.

 

Because it's the law.

The introductory coin will bear an obverse common to all coins in the program. It will consist of a likeness of the Statue of Liberty, and the inscriptions of “$1” and “In God We Trust.” The reverse of the introductory coin will be inscribed with “United States of America” and “American Innovators,” and it will include a representation of President George Washington’s signature on the first U.S. patent.

And that is exactly what the participating artists designed.

Christian

 

I wonder if the half dollar dude needed to kill the horse to get the blanket his jacket was made from.

 

Even if that is the law, any graphic designer can come up with a decent idea for their senior thesis. Surely the best in the nation aren't a bunch of talentless hacks?

 

Two of them are, Seth G Huntington designer of the half is 98, and Dennis E Williams designer of the dollar is still kicking and only 56. (Jack L Ahr died in November of last year.)

 

Wish I had your confidence in us. Not seeing the evidence.

 

Sorry to hear about Mr. Ahr. I knew Dennis Williams was just a student when he won the dollar design back in 1976 and the answer to the trivia question "who is the youngest designer of any U.S. coinage?".

 

In New York City they mainly use credit cards. It's so expensive you would have to carry rolls of coins to feed the meters. Some locations in midtown Manhattan it costs $.50 for 12 minutes. And that's only certain times you can park passenger vehicles.

 

Anyone see the obverse of the innovation dollar? The Mint has outdone itself for lack of innovation.

 

The mint will be making more ballast that they hope the collectors will buy. This effort has nothing to do with "coin collectors". It is all about making money and pacifying everyone to ensure political correctness.

 

Ballast. I like that.

 

I like the coin