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<p>[QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 848519, member: 18157"]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">My BSA coins arrived today (2 Unc, 2 Proof). I was hoping I would like the design better once I got the coins "in hand"…but I don’t. It's depressing to think how the people responsible for selecting the design could have come up with this. </font></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">It's not that the design is so bad or that having an Explorer scout on it (or whatever she is) is so bad. It's just that the other design was <b>WAY </b>better (imo); the one depicting the 1910 scout reaching down to help the 2010 scout up the mountain. I thought that design captured the essence of what it means to be a scout; teamwork, service to others, and the passing of knowledge and experience from one generation to another.</font></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana"><img src="http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/boy-scouts.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></span></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">...words to live by! :thumb:</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="yakpoo, post: 848519, member: 18157"][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]My BSA coins arrived today (2 Unc, 2 Proof). I was hoping I would like the design better once I got the coins "in hand"…but I don’t. It's depressing to think how the people responsible for selecting the design could have come up with this. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]It's not that the design is so bad or that having an Explorer scout on it (or whatever she is) is so bad. It's just that the other design was [B]WAY [/B]better (imo); the one depicting the 1910 scout reaching down to help the 2010 scout up the mountain. I thought that design captured the essence of what it means to be a scout; teamwork, service to others, and the passing of knowledge and experience from one generation to another.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][IMG]http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv10/Yakpoo/boy-scouts.jpg[/IMG][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]...words to live by! :thumb:[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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