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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benveniste, post: 1120621, member: 25547&quot;]I think of the Columbia as the first &quot;clip art&quot; coin -- drop in a couple of buildings (from different centuries no less), a statue, and a palmetto tree that has wrong shaped leaves. Add in the &quot;rings within rings&quot; design feature on <i>both</i> sides of the coin for good measure. Along with the York and Rhode Island commemoratives, it has all the hallmarks of a slapdash effort done to take advantage of the 1936 bubble.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I find the RFK commemorative to be merely homely, and the satin finish was a nice change at the time. When it comes to depicting real people I&#039;m willing to give the coin designer some slack. It&#039;s not like they get to choose what the subject actually looked like. So even though I&#039;d rather not have &quot;real people&quot; on circulating coins, I decided to go with coins where the designer had more creative control and still came up short.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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