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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;phankins11, post: 2177761, member: 70703&quot;]I agree wholeheartedly as well here.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, I do wonder this...even if Congress could quit stepping on their own....well this is a family venue...so I&#039;ll say get out of the way of their own egos, even if the artists were given true full reign in designs, and even if the designs were to harken back to the allegorical representations of Lady Liberty on our coinage, I wonder if the product would be as beautiful as the original pieces. I wonder, just how much the modern mechanics of coin production would keep what would be minted from being as beautiful as what once was.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe its in the eye of the beholder, but to me, sure the designs of our old coinage are beautiful and nothing has come close since, but it was also the variation of production, die polish lines, the old die cracks, the die gouges, the truly doubled dies due to double squeezing while creating the working dies, true mint luster of the old gold, silver and copper coinage that made\makes the old stuff so interesting and beautiful. We all know that the creation of hubs, master dies, working hubs and working dies is all together different. In fact, I think I was reading somewhere that in some cases we go straight from computer design to working hub. All the in between is no longer done. Master hubs are CNC routed now rather than pressed from master dies, which were pressed from a master hub, which was created from a portrait lathe. All this is done to reduce the human error element.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know our coinage today can exhibit some of these variations but it just seems to me that as time has gone on and technology has &quot;improved&quot; you do get closer to a &quot;perfect&quot; coin, which leaves less room for errors and variety...and it seems to take the spice out of our coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my thoughts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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