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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 568466, member: 4381&quot;]They also became more ugly, but nobody cared.&nbsp; The recent work on them has made them better with the sharpening of the hair (spagetthi hair) and such.&nbsp; As for the Walker design, I believe, and you can disagre, that it is greatly dependent on the soft look of Silver and if you put it on a clad surface it will look so fake and so cheap because of all those flashy surfaces.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there are separate minting issues.&nbsp; The original Silver design, which looked like this in normal business strike:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/walking_liberty_half_1940_obverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/coins/walking_liberty_half_1940_reverse.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have weakness of strike all over the coin especially in the hand, the flag, the drappery.&nbsp; The problems with pressure differences between the high and low points will look even worse on clad.&nbsp; And you see those stripes in her dress, that is going to go over just wonderful on clads.&nbsp; Your going to love the rainbow affect when it strikes through.&nbsp; Finally there is is the reverse Eagle.&nbsp; The design on the Quarter was never capable of being struck correctly on Clad.&nbsp; This eagle, as it is designed, as no chance.</p><p><br /></p><p>They can take this basic design, but they&#039;d need to completely overhaul it, and make it flatter.&nbsp; And it won&#039;t be that appealing.&nbsp; OTOH - I&#039;m not sure any of the other halves will be that appealing either.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If not that much trouble means producing low quality coins, then your right because the silver quarters were a much higher quality...even with an ugly design.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You know what, I agree with you that the war nickels translated well.&nbsp; The exception proves the rule in this case.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Read my original message.&nbsp; Those Buffalo&#039;s on silver and gold really suck compared to the design on Nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No they don&#039;t.&nbsp; You believe that.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The original designs weren&#039;t exactly high art either and on primitive minting equipment.&nbsp; The new remade designs were made from scratch for their new metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is irrelevant to the discussion on walkers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Never.&nbsp; it will look like a cheap counterfeit.&nbsp; It can never look anything like a silver strike in quality.&nbsp; The Walker is a superb and well thought out design that will NEVER translate well to Clad, or Aluminum, or golden brass.&nbsp; It might work on gold.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, art is all about opinions but I can almost guarantee you that 10 minutes after a Walker clad would come out that people would be moaning about how cheap it looks compared to the original silver strike.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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