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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7802675, member: 10461"]That’s a gorgeous Susie, and while the design is not particularly inspired (I’m mostly noting the recycled and reduced reverse from the Ike dollars- they could’ve been more creative), I think it is far from ugly.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, so maybe Susan B. Anthony wasn’t a beauty queen. Since when is that a prerequisite of female greatness, let alone greatness in general, right? Look at Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II as they aged gracefully on British coins. Victoria started out as a young beauty in the 1840s and aged into a somber looking, veiled old widow on many of her <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-victoria-hope-collection-a-1901-british-empire-type-set.298720/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-victoria-hope-collection-a-1901-british-empire-type-set.298720/">final coins</a> of 1901.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve heard some people say snide things about the present queen’s <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/39640165" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/39640165" rel="nofollow">new portraits</a>. C’mon, she’s 95 years old now and has ruled for nearly 70 of those years. The longest reign in British history and a true golden age, better even than those of her predecessors. I’m an American, but God bless the Queen.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>And</i> Susan B. Anthony, who deserves her immortality.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7802675, member: 10461"]That’s a gorgeous Susie, and while the design is not particularly inspired (I’m mostly noting the recycled and reduced reverse from the Ike dollars- they could’ve been more creative), I think it is far from ugly. OK, so maybe Susan B. Anthony wasn’t a beauty queen. Since when is that a prerequisite of female greatness, let alone greatness in general, right? Look at Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II as they aged gracefully on British coins. Victoria started out as a young beauty in the 1840s and aged into a somber looking, veiled old widow on many of her [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-victoria-hope-collection-a-1901-british-empire-type-set.298720/']final coins[/URL] of 1901. I’ve heard some people say snide things about the present queen’s [URL='https://www.pcgs.com/cert/39640165']new portraits[/URL]. C’mon, she’s 95 years old now and has ruled for nearly 70 of those years. The longest reign in British history and a true golden age, better even than those of her predecessors. I’m an American, but God bless the Queen. [I]And[/I] Susan B. Anthony, who deserves her immortality.[/QUOTE]
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