2021 American Liberty

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That is one bucking ugly coin, emphasis on bucking. Reminds me of the same dilemma with the basketball coin awhile back.

 

It seems you missed my post

 

You are wrong, I saw it but just forgot about it when I made the comment. Sorry! Still not a very good showing. Sometimes I wish I could work with an artist to see what I could come up with. Might be humbling.

 

I can neither draw nor engrave. But my taste goes to coins that are engraved and not a duplication of a drawing.

 

I would think most coins going back to the beginning of coins start as a sketch at a minimum before the artist starts to engrave. I would be shocked to hear that any of our coins in the US started as an engraving first. Maybe I am missing something in your comment?

 

Maybe I am just viewing this from a jaded perspective. I want and expect to see a glorious image of Lady Liberty or the strong bust of one of our nations leaders. But then I am an old guy..... Perhaps this image may be appealing to a younger generation? I don’t know. Just wondering.

 

Horrible. Bucking Horse? Good grief.

 

The idea of the image wasn't awful just the final decision. It's pretentious and poorly chosen at best. Essentially no one looks at the strange flying saddle and says yes that's the USA bucking off British rule as claimed in the article.

Tip of the hat to the poor marketing team having to come up with such an allegory for a back story, but another uninspiring design by the CCAC

 

I’ll cut to the chase. The finished product doesn’t look like a drawing.

 

Losing my contributions won't hurt them a bit. But, it makes me feel better. There hasn't been a rational coin program out of the mint in decades.

 

That I can understand, appreciate cutting to the chase! Metal gives a dimension, feel, reaction that a drawing will always have a hard time comparing to. One of the reasons I love steel engraved vignettes as much as I do. With the laser engraving of dies that is done now I think we push too close to the duplication and the loss of artistic interpretation that transfers well to struck coins.

 

Wow is all I can say. All 34 design submissions SUCK to put it bluntly. The mint just can’t get it right no matter how they try. I’ve seen more artistic Hobo nickels.

Reed.

 

How about they go back to pics of lady liberty. Better yet make her proportioned about like Anna Nicole Smith and I’d love the designs lol

 

ANS with a SLQ design...variety 1 of course!

 

Love it. Or the walking liberty or the draped bust design. Though Anna Willing Bingham was quite busty herself

 

Where do I place my vote for this design?

 

I think the concept/symbology may be OK, but I think the execution is lacking. And if they really want to stick to the narrative of "throwing off the British" they need to make it an English ridding saddle, not a western saddle. The western saddle was a saddle of the workers/people. This shows "Liberty" throwing off the working people.

 

Considered on its own, I don't dislike it. As a representation of Liberty, it's a big miss. And I definitely won't be paying what the Mint will want for that piece of metal.

 

Well let’s take a look at some of the other submissions shall we. There are more but this is a good sample of the junk we could have had!

Reed.