I have been think about this for a while and while the presidents on our coins were great men and probably deserve the spot at the same time, and the lincolns and washingtons are great but i'll look at my older us coins and love the design and artistry of the personifications of Liberty, i am also a foreign collector and love other countries who put symbols of their country, especially Marianne on the french francs and euros, i know the Mint is coming out with all these new coins and the quarter and dollar sets to raise coin collecting and also pride in the country, but i believe seeing the national personification brings up so much pride, i look at my old coins and am proudful of the us. i also look at the people i meet and it seems that there is such less pride in our country, it may also be a very vocalized minority who live in it but hate our country, anybody else wish that they would bring back the Liberty personification onto the coins and bring back the true artistry of coins instead of all the different sets, i like the sets and will probably collect circulated sets but still, its also strange that i post this because i am a true George Washington fan, sorry had to vent, anybody else have this feeling
yeah. that is the best. if they produce it that way. then my money will be all gone. overdraft is the term to be use at bank.
that is exactly what i mean i know the liberty is one of the pres. liberties but what is the reverse from,
Anybody? Try everybody. Both the SBA and Sac dollars were originally supposed to have allegorical Liberty heads on them until the special interests got a hold of them. For the first small dollar NOW insisted on an historical woman being on the coin. So the mint created a list of 100 possible choices, men, women, and allegorical image, and let people vote on them. The Liberty head came in at number 1 and the Statue of Liberty at number 2. The first historical woman on the list was Susan B Anthony at number 15. They passed over the first 14 choices to give us SBA.
You know, the French have Marianne, and it's neat to see the different incarnations of that image over the decades. Pretty neat.
that is mainly what i am thinking of, the coins i was looking at were French and it was the lady over and over, i also saw a poster with the female personifications of France Britain and Russia, and that got me thinking how much better it would look with liberty in it
Okay, as to Liberty, the earliest were local *****s, who modeled for the chief engravers. Then their wives found out, and then we get much dowdier Libertys because said wives then modeled for the coins. That's why you had the seated Liberty for all those years. It was safer. That changed when Morgan took over in the 1870s. The model for the Morgan dollar, one Anna Williams, was fired from her job as a kindergarden teacher because Modelling was considered immoral.
i just want to say thank you to the person who nominated my post meant to say it when it was up there, thanks anyway
