Her eyes and hair are terrible. She look sleepy, mad, or high. Way too much eye lid showing. And the hair is poorly done as well.
Sounds quite similar to some of the criticisms when the original Peace Dollar design was first unveiled. You made me go back and look at the eye on this design. It does look like she's got a thyroid problem, on top of everything else.
Not even my parents. But people who were alive at the time reported the reaction, and some of us oldsters remember how to read.
I know older thread, but I have seen these sometimes lately. Wow, that is a bad design. High relief is cool and all, and I think more collector coins should be struck this way. However, high relief of a horrible design does not make it acceptable. I just don't get it. Most designs on the platinum proofs are well done, especially since they finally got rid of the ugly SOL obverse. The Franklin silver dollars, Boystown, and other moderns have been some very good designs. Why not just make all PM commems high relief? Instead, they trot out special designs that are eh to horrible as their "high relief" designs. Does the CCACC vote on these things? I cannot believe they approved the 2019 obverse. If they did, we need a new CCACC.
I like the Australia Wedge Eagle and the Saint-Gaudens National Park coins much better. And of course there's the 2009 UHR.
Yes they vote on them, but they don't design them. They get a group of bad designs and then have to pick the "best" of a bad batch. I think I can only recall one time when they just panned all of the designs and refused to select any of them. But in that case there was plenty of time to get new designs. Usually they give the designs to them to make their selection at close to the deadline point and rejecting all of them means missing their launch date. And in that case the Secretary of the Treasury would just pick one.
Been out of the loop for a while, so just now seeing these through the Mint's website and figured I'd dig up an old thread. The most up to date sales figures (1/12/20) from the Mint show the following: Gold - 8,709 Silver - 31,355 Both had a mintage limit of 50,000. Relatedly: 2017 1 oz. Gold Liberty: 31,109 (mintage limit of 100,000) 2018 1/10 oz. Gold Liberty: 30,685 (mintage limit of 135,000) I'm sure given the circumstances of the past two months, that these items are closer to their mintage limits, but still just a big yikes all around for this Liberty series. The '17/'18 coins are right atrocious, but I've just stared at the '19 series off and on for several hours, trying to bring myself to like it and I can't. Like was mentioned earlier, they tried to go for a Peace Dollar feel and couldn't have been further from that mark. What an ugly rendition of Lady Liberty. With both the AGE and Buffaloes being cheaper, they're going to continue to have a hard time selling these.