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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 557020, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Franklin&#039;s and Ike&#039;s remind me of</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Franklin&#039;s and Ike&#039;s remind me of of a coinage design nightmare just like Roosevelt&#039;s and Susan B&#039;s.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I tell you what, now be honest put a Walking Lib Half, Standing Lib Quart. and Mercury Dime, and a Buffalo Nick down on the table then next to it put a Franklin, SBA, Roosevelt and an Ike next to them.&nbsp; Leave them there for a year and ask everyone that comes over to tell you what coin is the most beautiful - if anyone picks even one coin from the second group you can be assured that they had a childhood trauma of some kind.</p><p>What I am really trying to say (now I&#039;m still being good, It&#039;s Monday) is to go from classic U.S. coinage that was beautiful to the latter group is like going from great, artistic, classic American designs to boring, ugly, too large dead historical peoples head shots and poorly designed reverses.</p><p>In other words there is no comparison at all between the 2 groups, none whatsoever.</p><p>It is just like beautiful coinage designs died in the mid to late 1940&#039;s and except for the Silver, gold, and platinum eagles and a very few commemoratives our coinage made for commerce is just plain ugly by comparison, there is no comparison.</p><p>But if you like them so be it, I&#039;m just saying the coinage designs that were once so very beautiful are no longer and I&#039;m surprised when anyone would willingly say those aforementioned modern coins have any beauty or class at all - my, have I not been so diplomatic lately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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