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<p>[QUOTE="Texas John, post: 1817378, member: 25813"]V nickels are of a classic late Victorian design. Buffalo nickles are of a modernist design, like Lincoln cents. In 1913, the V nickel design would be seen as stuffy and old fashioned. The Buffalo nickel would be seen as novel and emblematic of the age.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the world was engulfed in the carnage of World War I, modernism got a bad name, and the coin designs of that time (Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty Quarters, Walking Liberty Halves) are neoclassical, attempting to invoke a bygone era of timeless values and artistic sentiments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ironically, after the war had ended and the Roaring 20's gave way to the Great Depression, the neoclassical designs of the 1910's were seen as old fashioned, and modernist sentiments again came to the fore, as personified in the Washington quarter, which is aesthetically similar to the Lincoln cent and Buffalo nickel, and at the time could be seen as both modern and nostalgic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Texas John, post: 1817378, member: 25813"]V nickels are of a classic late Victorian design. Buffalo nickles are of a modernist design, like Lincoln cents. In 1913, the V nickel design would be seen as stuffy and old fashioned. The Buffalo nickel would be seen as novel and emblematic of the age. As the world was engulfed in the carnage of World War I, modernism got a bad name, and the coin designs of that time (Mercury dimes, Standing Liberty Quarters, Walking Liberty Halves) are neoclassical, attempting to invoke a bygone era of timeless values and artistic sentiments. Ironically, after the war had ended and the Roaring 20's gave way to the Great Depression, the neoclassical designs of the 1910's were seen as old fashioned, and modernist sentiments again came to the fore, as personified in the Washington quarter, which is aesthetically similar to the Lincoln cent and Buffalo nickel, and at the time could be seen as both modern and nostalgic.[/QUOTE]
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