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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bacchus, post: 42877, member: 759&quot;]I’m looking at the April issue of <i>COINage, </i> and there’s a story about the artists of the coin designs of the state quarters.&nbsp; What really caught my eye is the Mint’s implementation of the Missouri quarter design.&nbsp; On page 11, you can see a picture of the artist’s original design alongside the actual quarter.&nbsp; <i>Night and day ! </i></p><p><br /></p><p>What happened ?&nbsp; The original design is fantastic; it gives the impression that the viewer is in the river and that the viewer is going to get wet from the water spilling off the edge of the coin.&nbsp; The final version captured none of this feeling.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, before someone says that the original design is too intricate to be engraved, take a gander at page 27, which shows the Missouri quarter alongside a <i>”privately produced medallion”</i>.&nbsp; Privately produced !&nbsp; And the Mint can’t match this ?</p><p><br /></p><p>The medallion captures the original vision much more accurately.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the medallion is bigger, or maybe the process to create the medallion is different or more costly for some reason than what the Mint uses to stamp out three hundred million coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seems like a shame, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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