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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KurtS, post: 2111929, member: 11786&quot;]I also notice this particular design <i>completely lacks</i> any Mohawk cultural elements--it could be of anyone. This is akin to coining a &quot;commemorative&quot; about Chinese railway workers in the blandest visual terms--it says <b>absolutely nothing</b> about their culture. So I would prefer a coin honoring the native &quot;code talkers&quot; during WWII--at least their language plays a large role in their service during the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, these &#039;design-by-committee&#039; minting projects have produced some real turds of numismatic art--the 3/4 presidential portraits (a very bad idea in low relief) are just one of many outright disasters. It may be because of the 11 members, there&#039;s just &quot;<a href="http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/?action=press_release&amp;ID=1275" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/?action=press_release&amp;ID=1275" rel="nofollow">one specially qualified in the medallic arts or sculpture</a>&quot;--the rest may be easily tone-depth when it comes to aesthetics--or culture, apparently.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah-- both Australia and Canada have regular issues depicting native animal species that are quite stunning--why not the US? I don&#039;t understand why US coins focus so much on politics, particularly presidents...when Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, et al. would be aghast to know their likenesses were put on coins, like their contemporary King George III. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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