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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1812133, member: 42773"]The low relief on Liberty nickels definitely looks more modern, but the design still has a human quality about it. You can see that the coins were actually drawn and engraved by men. That element is gone now.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins in my pocket are dull and lifeless: calibrated to the micron by unfeeling machines - coins made by robots for a post-Orwellian society. The mint even managed to sanitize Fraser's designs on the silver and gold commemorative issues, because of course, there's nothing a computer can't do better than a man.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1812133, member: 42773"]The low relief on Liberty nickels definitely looks more modern, but the design still has a human quality about it. You can see that the coins were actually drawn and engraved by men. That element is gone now. The coins in my pocket are dull and lifeless: calibrated to the micron by unfeeling machines - coins made by robots for a post-Orwellian society. The mint even managed to sanitize Fraser's designs on the silver and gold commemorative issues, because of course, there's nothing a computer can't do better than a man.[/QUOTE]
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