Found this today while searching the box for world coins. I don't think somebody liked this design version very much, LOL
I liked this full face Jefferson, but the eyes, nose and mouth are wrong. If you compare his portrait with this coin design you will see what I mean. Makes it look like his brother, or something. (I don’t know if he had a brother, btw, I will look that up). If he did have one, it is the brother asking “Who wants cranberry sauce?”. But, being a fair-minded person, it was a reasonable depiction, just not a great one. I also did not like the script “LIBERTY”, but was glad of the return to Monticello for the reverse.
I only keep one of each year for the folder. Thats it. Not hard to just take a single one. Not so pretty but the design was a second thought and die life was probably more important. Think about the high relief on the older Jeffersons... more prone to die breaks and the like. In theory, a shallower die would live longer... and since design is second to the ability to mass produce - we get things like this.
The Mint had every chance to make a great coin and failed. They could have at least gotten the face right ( high or low relief aside).
The public was actually screwed out of a timeless design when the mint made Schlag redo the art deco design and went with the 1938 redo.... IDK why....as America really loved art deco..... now had his orginial design not been poo pooed...we would of had another design that made us proud. The Mercury dime art deco....standing liberty quarters who doesn't like these two?
