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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3612888, member: 57463"]Not bad. I am not sold on the subject or the excuse (825 years), but the design style is novel and interesting. Thanks for recommending it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would disagree. First, for US, I believe that we have a consensus that the end of the "classical" era was the end of the Indianhead Cent, Buffalo Nickel, Mercury Dime, Standing Liberty Quarter, Walking Liberty Half Dollar and the Silver Dollar (Morgan and Peace alike). As they were phased out, they were replaced with Dead Politicians and Lifeless Reverses. The Lincoln Memorial and Monticello are not going anywhere; the eagle on the quarter looks like a moth pinned to a board. (In fact, the Washington Quarter and the Nazi Half Mark bear a scary similarity.) The Liberty Bell on the Franklin Half is not going to ring out. In fact, it is broken.</p><p><br /></p><p>The torch was passed to modern Commemoratives. There, the Mint had opportunities. I suggest the 1992 Olympics, for example, at least the obverses. The reverse of the Half Dollar is a better arrangement of the otherwise static symbols. </p><p><br /></p><p>The coins of communist Hungary were perfect examples of the aesthetic bankruptcy of a dictatorship that demanded classical styling with everything at attention, heels clicked together, nothing moving, no suggestion of change. Modern (after 1989) Hungarian commemoratives did offer some other presentations. TheGame in Post 8 showed a 200F with a bridge in perspective.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do agree with your point that the transition from "classical" to "modern" did not happen with the turn of a calendar page. But that was true also for the rise of Romanticism in the 1830s - earlier here, later there, or Expressionism, etc., etc. Modernism in architecture is another example with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in America moving forward head of Bauhaus. Architectural trends may influence numismatics more than we realize.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3612888, member: 57463"]Not bad. I am not sold on the subject or the excuse (825 years), but the design style is novel and interesting. Thanks for recommending it. I would disagree. First, for US, I believe that we have a consensus that the end of the "classical" era was the end of the Indianhead Cent, Buffalo Nickel, Mercury Dime, Standing Liberty Quarter, Walking Liberty Half Dollar and the Silver Dollar (Morgan and Peace alike). As they were phased out, they were replaced with Dead Politicians and Lifeless Reverses. The Lincoln Memorial and Monticello are not going anywhere; the eagle on the quarter looks like a moth pinned to a board. (In fact, the Washington Quarter and the Nazi Half Mark bear a scary similarity.) The Liberty Bell on the Franklin Half is not going to ring out. In fact, it is broken. The torch was passed to modern Commemoratives. There, the Mint had opportunities. I suggest the 1992 Olympics, for example, at least the obverses. The reverse of the Half Dollar is a better arrangement of the otherwise static symbols. The coins of communist Hungary were perfect examples of the aesthetic bankruptcy of a dictatorship that demanded classical styling with everything at attention, heels clicked together, nothing moving, no suggestion of change. Modern (after 1989) Hungarian commemoratives did offer some other presentations. TheGame in Post 8 showed a 200F with a bridge in perspective. I do agree with your point that the transition from "classical" to "modern" did not happen with the turn of a calendar page. But that was true also for the rise of Romanticism in the 1830s - earlier here, later there, or Expressionism, etc., etc. Modernism in architecture is another example with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in America moving forward head of Bauhaus. Architectural trends may influence numismatics more than we realize.[/QUOTE]
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