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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rmpsrpms, post: 3094456, member: 31773&quot;]Sorry, but I don&#039;t find those designs very good at all, at least as far as a minted product. They indeed are beautiful as drawings, with highly detailed shadows and highlights. In such a drawing, all the details show as the artist intended, but when minted into a coin the highlights and shadows are dependent on how the coin is lit. It is this reason that the photos of the coins don&#039;t look so hot...they are not lit exactly as the artist intended with original design drawings. I think this is an indication that the artist is very good in a 2D medium, but perhaps not so much as a sculptor. Coins are sculptures, albeit low-relief ones, and need to be treated as such. Too much fine detail is present in these coins, and it does not translate well from the 2D medium to 3D.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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