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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 72287, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Morgan, Morgan, nur nicht heute...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at U.S. patterns (see here: <a href="http://www.uspatterns.com)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.uspatterns.com)" rel="nofollow">www.uspatterns.com)</a>, you come to understand that William Barber and Charles Barber and GEORGE MORGAN spent their working days, day in and day out, cutting dies for coins. They experimented.&nbsp; They did the hard work every day.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, Gobrecht and Reich on the one hand, and the outsiders like McNeil and DeFrancisci on the other, did not have that opportunity. </p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is that the Morgan Dollar is an easy choice for Best Dollar because it is perfectly executed. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is an ineffable &quot;something&quot; to the coin -- the sum total of its major design elements, but also, how they are arranged, their proportions, etc. -- that make the Morgan Dollar undeniable. </p><p><br /></p><p>I say that even though I do not &quot;like&quot; the coin.&nbsp; Financially, economically, and politically, the Morgan Dollar is about the worst coin in the world.&nbsp; It is all but evil, the result of political shenanigans between the miners and Congress.&nbsp; And yet, it is such a nice coin...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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