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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1616885, member: 26302&quot;]I just have a HUGE problem with them reusing old designs, especially on differently sized coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>One, the artist created his artistic vision and design for a certain size. Who are we to change that vision? Should we freely add a cow or change the dimensions to American Gothic or a Picasso? Should committees be free to change any artwork they feel like it once the artist is dead and can no longer object? </p><p><br /></p><p>Two, what about the value being destroyed to the owners of the originals? The $20 St Gaudens coins used to carry much higher premiums, but once the treasury reused the design, (changing lady liberty to be skinnier btw), the values on those coins went down. Same with WL half owners. A nice BU example of this coin used to carry higher premiums, but since a collector cheaply can now get an oversized version in high grade, the owners of WL halves have been hurt. </p><p><br /></p><p>What next? What series of coins should the US mint attack? </p><p><br /></p><p>Those are my issues with it. To me, it should be banned from using old imagery and we should simply DEMAND artistic excellence from our current artists, or do what Teddy did and bring in TALENTED artists to design our coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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