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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 25925759, member: 1765&quot;]The recreated statues are lifeless because they haven&#039;t lived yet.&nbsp; The older ones acquired a lot of character with age.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for modern coin design, yes, the modern CAD designs are dull and lifeless caricatures of the old designs, even when in the same relief.&nbsp; For the Morgans, they won&#039;t reproduce the sharpness of the originals.&nbsp; The could if they wanted to, but die life is more important than a sharply detailed coin.&nbsp; Peace dollars don&#039;t have any really sharp details, so these are more forgiving to the current practice.&nbsp; A big part of the coins&#039; lifelessness is the dead luster applied to the dies before they&#039;re used.&nbsp; None of the luster that develops naturally as a die is used will ever be seen on these coins, because the mint doesn&#039;t want it.&nbsp; Their goal is to make every coin identical, and one reason for that is that if there were the possibility of varying luster qualities among them, they&#039;d get more returns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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