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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benveniste, post: 8459220, member: 25547&quot;]To be fair, APMEX and Provident metals are asking more for the 1oz coin alone than the Mint is asking for the coin and the kicker.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I wrote about the coin when it was announced.&nbsp; Needless to say, I&#039;m not in the market for one:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The U.S. Mint displayed yet another example of why coin design by committee doesn&#039;t work. The position of Chief Engraver has been vacant since 2010 and it shows.</p><p><br /></p><p>The allegorical representation of Liberty is quite nice, but I can hear a committee saying &quot;the stars just aren&#039;t big enough.&quot; So we end up with a headband that goes beyond unrealistic. Looking at Liberty&#039;s ear, it actually looks painful to wear.</p><p>On the reverse, all the extra verbiage results in an eagle that has its wings in an unusual position and is a bit too short in the body. Yet somehow the designer still felt the need to crop the tail features.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose it would be too much to ask for the obverse and reverse fonts to match, but need they be this dissimilar? And do we really need _4_ sets of initials to clutter up the fields?&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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