2022 QUARTERS ARE IN CIRCULATION

A recent find not by me but someone I know denver mint quarter. These are the only pics I have. I don’t know what I was expecting, interesting.

 

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Oh boy, Don't remind me,

 

Gotta say.......I'm not a fan of the GW portrait. Wonder why they have him facing right now ?

 

That's the way the artist, Laura Fraser, created it in 1931. John Flannagan did a similar one that faced the other way. Flannagan's got chosen for the 1932 quarter, Fraser's is being put on the new 2022 quarter.

https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/woman-behind-long-awaited-obverse-quarter-design

 

Johnny Likey!

 

Looks more like play money to me. I'd bet a lot of young cashiers would reject that coin, but what do I know?

 

Frankly a lot of them don't really look at money - they just mindlessly take it and throw it in the cash register. Unless you doff off a $2 bill and you will get several differing reactions(I am buying it out of the register, is this real? is it legal?, I haven't ever seen one of these...

 

So then that would be the same Washington portrait as this this 1999 commemorative five dollar gold. I always rather thought it was a powerful portrait of the man.

 

Great a Racketeer Quarter!!

 

I never would've thought of it, and now I'll never be able to stop.

 

That's funny!

A history of the Racketeer Nickel for completeness...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-racketeer-nickel-180961066/

 

I never knew until today that the 1932 quarter design had to be based upon a sculpture of Washington by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. Houdon made a plaster cast of Washington's face (a "life-mask"). That's why Fraser's and Flannigan's portraits look similar.

It's good to learn new things at my age.

Below, Houdon's clay bust he left with Washington before returning to France and the completed statue he completed later.

 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe..._Houdon's_Washington,_seen_from_the_front.jpg

 

I was going to help out and post the photo, it's a no go for me too.

 

Thanks, @Hommer, that site is fussy about linking to it's photos but you got yours to work.

 

I like the concept behind the portrait. However, the execution of which, I find to be a disappointment in reality. Regardless, I believe that I already saw these photos on Instagram a few days ago.

 

Almost looks Roman. Now that’s a cool likeness

 

Wow never saw those before. Very nice coin. What did people say about his likeness back then. Curious

 

Good job. Thanks

 

No way