Here's what they chose for the rev 2010 cent.

Wow, I think your definition of "hate" is a little liberally given. But that is OK, differing opinions and all. I like the 4 reverses this year. They do express artistic ability in my opinion. The 2010 reverse comes no where close IMO. Probably the artists aren't so much to blame as the committee that feels it must please every possible group and eliminate controversy.

One of the "blowhards"

Jim

 

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Perhaps some bizarre designer with a fetish submitted this design... it looks like something one would buy on the discount rack of a seedy downtown store...

Blah...

 

I have yet to receive a 2009 coin in general. Let alone a new Lincoln cent. Let alone worrying about the 2010 yet. lol Nearly 4 months are in the books. No 2009 coins and the mint doesn't have the planchets available to sell a proof eagle of any sort.

Well, FWIW, I like the four designs coming out this year. More than the 2010 but we should expect modern designs from here on out. The old days are gone.

I'm just thankful they didn't feel the need to stamp Obama on the ring.

 

That's awful!

 

This design is just OK. I don't hate it, but I don't particularly like it either. I was really hoping for the eagle design, it was vastly superior. It would have made for a beautiful coin.

It's my fear that the people on this committee are politically correct wussies....scared to use the eagle as a design element anymore because it's perhaps too "aggressive". :rolling:

 

Now we're getting somewhere! Send it in!

 

Well, considering that in the 216-year history of the cent, the eagle has only made a very brief appearance, in 1856-1858, it doesn't seem to be a very traditional design element for that particular denomination.

 

I think one reason coins look lousier is because they use computer graphics or computer assisted graphics rather than hand-drawn. This smooths things out too much, and makes the typography look bad because it's not hand fit.

It's nice to see the return of the wheat, but in an exaggerated form.

Good, too, to see the ONE CENT spelled out. Having the symbols makes coins look like tokens, but perhaps they are accommodating the illegals and legal immigrants who don't know any English with that.

 

I hate when they do that. Same with the dollar coin. The symbol is goosh....

 

different

 

Is this design going to stick for a while or is it going to change again in 2011?

 

what if people cant read?

 

The May 18th edition of Coin World is reporting that the mint has kiled the wheat sheaf design for the reverse of the 2010 cent.

 

According to this week's edition of Coin World the designed pictured has been rejected by the Treasury Dept.

 

Well..... I actually kinda like it.... it's better than the Lincoln Memorial design we have been saddled with for the past 50 years. Please.....no more buildings on our coins.

 

To think I read 54 posts just to find out that the pictured reverse of the 2010 Lincoln cent is NOT going to be the wheat sheaf... Well, lets thrash some other new coin.

You can't please everybody all the time, and you might please some of the people some of the time but you can p*** off most of the people most of the time. I think Benjamin Franklin mumbled something to that effect while he was inventing the light bulb and dimmer switch. :goofer: :rolling:

Bruce

 

Of all the proposed designs I have seen...the only one I really liked was the shield design. I thought it had a very classic look to it and it would go well on the coin.

 

Must admit that I find the "¢" on a coin somewhat strange too. (Oh well, the whole wheat sheaf design is suboptimal. ) But what is wrong with using digits to indicate the value? Do you object to having them on your paper money as well?

Coming from a multilingual environment, I would find it odd to have the value written out in a row of letters. But there are other reasons too - by using digits you (usually) have more space for the "core design".

Visitors (or collectors, hehe) will indeed have to learn the denominations then. But for a local the coins will soon be something familiar - and if the words ONE CENT do not help, then the size and "color" will. Now for vision impaired people, size and edge are more helpful clues anyway ...

Christian