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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 63626, member: 1101&quot;]One word: &quot;coinability&quot;.&nbsp; The Mint has used this reason/excuse to lower the relief of all of our coins over the past deacde or so.&nbsp; Look at a nickel from the 1960s vs one from today. People may be too familiar with TJ but if you look at it impartially you will see that the original bust was artistically very good.&nbsp; Ditto for most of the other coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is easy to design and even strike a high relief coin - but those &quot;quarter&quot; tokens mentioned are $6 each or so.&nbsp; If they had to make billions of them for less than 25 cents each, the quality would be reduced for sure. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the SBA, I am in the minority, but I like it.&nbsp; It is the last coin with any relief that was issued for ciculation.&nbsp; Run one of those between your fingers and your finger almost gets stuck on the edge of the eagle&#039;s wing.&nbsp; It was the end of an era.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for designs like the Walker 50 cent, it is an all-time classic, produced when art was at a different level.&nbsp; That sort of classic style went out decades ago.&nbsp; I am not saying that it is not still attractive, but people don&#039;t know how to do it any more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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