Faces on coins

Oops...should I have included my sarcasm GIF?

 

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I just spoke with a very nice and helpful US Mint representative. Over the past several years the complaints by US citizens has increase as to what image is appearing on coinage. The public does not like the large heavy coins. Most of all they despise the edge lettering. E. Pluribus Unum, the Date and In God We Trust need to be on the front or the back but not on the edge, according to the mints complaints.

Other complaints are the design of the eagle or Lady Liberty. Comments are numerous about the eagle not looking majestic, free, and/or strong.

I can't wait for the complaints the Printing and Engraving office will be receiving for the 1st US Treasurer being replaced by a woman. (Nothing against women)

America wants something other than what we are being given.

 

All of the 1892 (.50) coins were distributed. After the Columbian Exposition closed shop (1894) there remained 3.6 million unsold (1893) halves and the treasury department offered them to the public at face value.......not many were exchanged and some 2,501,700 were melted with the excess remaining being dumped into circulation.

As to the Isabella.......there were only 40,023 business strikes produced and of that number, 15,809 returned to the mint (and the melting pot) after the exposition. Short answer? The Isabella is simply rarer than the halve.

 

There have been several US Commemorative coins produced with two male faces on them.
Lafayette dollar, Alabama half dollar, Monroe Doctrine half dollar, the Huguenot half dollar, Stone Mountain, and at least eight more.

 

Let us not forget the old expression:

Heads or Tails

Where did that one come from?

 

Which eagles are these?? Surely the soaring Sacajawea dollar eagle is the freest we've ever seen! [emoji4]

The established (until recent times) arrangement of inscriptions was ideal, though, IMO:
LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST, and the date on the obverse; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, E PLURIBUS UNUM, and the denomination (spelled out) on the reverse. In that order, top to bottom, respectively. Thank you very much.

Edges are for reeding, or not.

 

Heck, the 'eagle' on the Morgan Dollar looks terribly un-majestic and more resembles a scrawny catbird rather than a bird of prey.........

 

Not certain I would call it a catbird but I agree.

 

Sorry.....one was at the window while I was typing.

 

While the variety of faces on obverses it wild and interesting.

Now that you mention eagles. All the early ones looked not so great.

What I don't like is that we picked an eagle just like every other country in Europe. Why couldn't we have been more original than that?

 

Plenty of countries in Europe that do not use an eagle in the CoA or as their emblem. Besides, the US bird is a specific one (Bald Eagle) contrary to most "European eagles" ...