I don't understand the coin. It only shows from the wast down, boy's & girls. Is this coin Desegregation of blacks & whites, or boys & girls. If it's blacks & whites, what does showing from the wast down have to do with it????? OK, I'm a dummy.
Almost think that the design of the medal would have been a better way to go... first impression I get from the obverse of the coin is someone was trying to take a picture, but had the camera aimed too low, lol... Someone who didn't know anything about the event would look at the coin, and guess that in 2007 they desegreagted schools so people who wear different kinds of shoes could go to school together. Knowing about the event though I can make the leap from the abstract depiction. It's not that bad really, but they could have made it more clear what exactly is being celebrated, and when it took place. A simple "1957-2007" wouldn't have hurt. Reverse is a much better design though I think. Makes for a nice, dramatic picture; makes the school look interesting even were it not for what it is historically celebrated for. I had similar feelings for the World War II comm. half dollar; it has a very detailed, dramatic reverse (practically looks like an action sequence!) but a very underwhelming obverse. Myabe I'll just display it tails up or something.
But once again if you don't know the history behind the event you get the impression that this was the first scholl to boldly step forward and open their doors to integration. (Rather than having to be dragged into it kicking and screaming and made to comply at gunpoint.) Why did they just show them from the waist down? Simple answer, they are still living. They don't want living people on the coins, and they want to commemorate the end of segregation, not the "Little Rock Nine". So they show them in a way in which you can't really point one out and say "That's So and So.".
commemorative i will not buy any modern commemorative silver dollars. too many and not popular. better keep buying am eagle series.
