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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1886720, member: 68&quot;]I disagree.&nbsp; Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and peoples&#039; tastes change.&nbsp; What anyone thinks today has no bearing on what people believe in a hundred years.&nbsp; It really doesn&#039;t even have much effect on what people think next week because even individual opinion can change.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I consider the Morgan design the ugliest thing ever struck in metal but I once collected them.&nbsp; My first collection was the buffalo nickel which I consider not so much beautiful (it is) but iconic. The Ike certainly has some of this &quot;iconic&quot; and the reverse is beautiful.&nbsp; I doubt Ike could appear on om a very beautiful coin because Ike&#039;s appearance is not condusive to beautiful artwork.&nbsp; He wasn&#039;t so much unattractive as just not being consistent with metallic beauty.&nbsp; I&#039;d guess it&#039;s the metal (clad) that is the biggest turn-off to most of its detractors. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All over the world these unloved base metal moderns are exploding in price.&nbsp; It&#039;s simply being found that they can be extremely rare because they were unloved. Sure, Ikes are mostly common in lower grades but the only reason nice examples and scarcer issues command such a small premium is that very few people collect them. It&#039;s not so much Ike is ugly as it is Ike is ugly on copper nickel.&nbsp; It&#039;s not so much Ike is ugly on copper nickel as it is the common perception. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Perhaps modern US will never get the attention it deserves.&nbsp; But the fact is this just allows people to put together great collections from dealer stock or from circulation at very low prices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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