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<p>[QUOTE="CoinOKC, post: 42292, member: 2146"]I'll reiterate: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Personally, I think the SBA Dollar is more eye-catching than the abysmal 1793 Flowing Hair Dollar with her "bug eyes" and wild, Bride-of-Frankenstein-esque hair:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/rjq/1793.wreath.VB.n50.5247.2.jpg?pt=bidpay&sp=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>... but, to each his own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I'd rather see someone like Susan B. Anthony depicted on a coin (for reasons stated in my previous post) than the oh-so-boring Seated Liberty designs, the yawn-inducing Barber series or the scare-young-children Peace Dollar design.</p><p><br /></p><p>Morgan Dollars were not always popular. When they first arrived on the scene, you couldn't give the things away. They languished, unloved, in bank vaults until people realized their value and then greed set in. Morgans have since become a popular series, but not based simply on their design.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CoinOKC, post: 42292, member: 2146"]I'll reiterate: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Personally, I think the SBA Dollar is more eye-catching than the abysmal 1793 Flowing Hair Dollar with her "bug eyes" and wild, Bride-of-Frankenstein-esque hair: [IMG]http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/rjq/1793.wreath.VB.n50.5247.2.jpg?pt=bidpay&sp=0[/IMG] ... but, to each his own. Also, I'd rather see someone like Susan B. Anthony depicted on a coin (for reasons stated in my previous post) than the oh-so-boring Seated Liberty designs, the yawn-inducing Barber series or the scare-young-children Peace Dollar design. Morgan Dollars were not always popular. When they first arrived on the scene, you couldn't give the things away. They languished, unloved, in bank vaults until people realized their value and then greed set in. Morgans have since become a popular series, but not based simply on their design.[/QUOTE]
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