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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Siwash, post: 736563, member: 18091&quot;]I can really admire the oak wreath on the back of the Indian Head cent or Flying Eagle cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>THAT&#039;s the way I would do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, the mint and these committees don&#039;t like classic design. They like using computer-generated stuff (which is why modern commemoratives lack soul). The shield is better than the junk flat flag decal they were going to paste on the back.</p><p><br /></p><p>ONE thing I admire about the OD (original design) for the cent reverse was the typography: the type style and layout of the words between the wheat sheaves.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to me to find out why the mint so loves its current design style---it just may be that the mint wants flatter and flatter images due to the requirements of pressing millions of coin pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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