Least favorite obverse design on a US coin?

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by Patrick Bateman, Jul 18, 2020.

  1. Patrick Bateman

    Patrick Bateman New Member

    We all love our Walking Liberty, Morgan, Mercury designs, but what is your LEAST favorite obverse design? I’m a fan of Eisenhower dollars, but that obverse is ehhhh in my opinion. I also dislike the Susan B Anthony obverse. Lame imo! Happy Sacagawea came into the picture.
     
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  3. ewomack

    ewomack 魚の下着

    I am not particularly crazy about either the obverse or the reverse of the first "American Innovators" dollar, here shown with the obverse on the right.
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    It looks like some of the subsequent issues may have improved somewhat upon this first design, thankfully.
     
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  4. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    The modern Jefferson nickel. Arghhhh
     
  5. Beardigger

    Beardigger Well-Known Member

    Effigy Mounds Quarters
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  6. Bradley Trotter

    Bradley Trotter Well-Known Member

    The U.S. Mint should've just kept Felix Schlag's obverse design at the end of the Westward Journey program.
     
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  7. QuintupleSovereign

    QuintupleSovereign Well-Known Member

    1792 half disme.
     
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  8. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    Pretty much all of the modern U.S. coins. We are so overdue for new designs.

    Morgan dollar also sucks.
     
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  9. GeorgeM

    GeorgeM Well-Known Member

    The Sacagawea dollars have always underwhelmed me. There was a chance to make a radical statement about inclusiveness on coins, and it came out looking like it was designed by committee.
     
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  10. QuintupleSovereign

    QuintupleSovereign Well-Known Member

    Idk, I think the reverse is quite good.
     
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  11. okbustchaser

    okbustchaser I may be old but I still appreciate a pretty bust Supporter

    Morgan dollar
    I HATE the obverse.
    Shame, too, because I think it has one of the best for circulation reverses in US mint history
     
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  12. YoloBagels

    YoloBagels Well-Known Member

    Shield nickel, Susan B Anthony dollar, half disme, Trade dollar, and the capped bust half dollar from 1834 and on.
     
  13. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    I'll make it simple, anything new.
     
  14. Malleus Maleficarum

    Malleus Maleficarum Well-Known Member

    I really don't like the President bust coinage which started with the Lincoln cent. All of it has been around way too long and it's quite boring to me.
     
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  15. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, but the Liberty Seated obverse has never really done a lot for me. I'm not a big Morgan fan, either. But I'll take either in a heartbeat over dead (or, for that matter, living) Presidents.
     
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  16. Long Beard

    Long Beard Well-Known Member

    Those which lack LIBERTY, like the Two-Cent.
     
  17. GeorgeM

    GeorgeM Well-Known Member

    Sure is. The thread title doesn't say anything about which obverses are terrible on coins with good reverses though. ;)
     
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  18. GeorgeM

    GeorgeM Well-Known Member

    I actually quite like the only obverse of a US coin showing a living (at the time) US President. Can you name it?
     
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  19. JeffC

    JeffC Go explore something and think a happy thought!

    I agree with your thoughts on the obverse. When I first saw it, I was a bit disappointed. The Statue of Liberty's been a bit overused and if they really wanted it, maybe they could feature an image from a different, and more dramatic perspective. Also, a curious incongruity for me: Why does a series that celebrates American innovation feature a landmark made in a foreign country on its obverse?
     
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  20. JeffC

    JeffC Go explore something and think a happy thought!

    I think I may have the answer if it ended up to be a non-circulating coin?
     
  21. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    I could, but I struck out on naming the actual President. :oops:
     
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