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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 2620034, member: 73983&quot;]This is exactly why the current mint products are pure crap.&nbsp; Everything is done digitally.&nbsp; The &quot;Sculpture&quot; is done in a computer, the dies are then produced using a CNC machine and the cameo effect is laser created.&nbsp; And we wonder why our modern coins lack details and look cartoonish. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe it&#039;s perhaps that an actual plaster sculpture is not made at 10-15X actual size and fine tuned in the real world by a true sculptor.&nbsp; The master sculpture is then not reduced and a steel master cut using a reducing lathe, which gives nearly perfect scaled down detail reproduction.&nbsp; The dies are no longer sand blasted to create a more natural looking frost and then the fields are polished down to a mirror, leaving a fantastic looking deep cameo contrast. Granted, this leaves out the actual design process, but it leaves a lot out of the equation for arriving at a final design.</p><p><br /></p><p>We do not have true artists creating our coin designs.&nbsp; Augustus St. Gaudens would be shaking his head and walking away in disbelief at the lack of true creativity and beauty.&nbsp; I share this belief as well.&nbsp; It&#039;s a total shame.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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