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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bacchus, post: 66151, member: 759&quot;]Well, I’m starting to have second thoughts about my previous comments.&nbsp; The Ocean nickel is looking much better to me this afternoon, now that looked at it a bit more and have had all day to reflect on the design.&nbsp; I particularly like the way the boilerplate coin text is wrapped around the outside in a circle.&nbsp; It adds a lot of radial symmetry to the design that I like in a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I previously described the diary description as being in a “busy” part of the design.&nbsp; I now amend that to a “textured” part of the design.&nbsp; And, I find I can read it easier today than I could very late last night (very early this morning, actually) when I was “processing” the rolls. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing I like is this design makes me think about the men who made the journey, and what they were thinking and feeling as they approached sight of the ocean.&nbsp; How far away were they when they could smell the ocean before they could see it, and how far away were they when they first saw seagulls?&nbsp; They must have known they were close before they actually saw the Pacific.&nbsp; How many false alarms had they had, where they were sure they were within a day of arriving at the coast, only to find out&nbsp; it was still quite a ways out ?</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose I could read one of the books based on their diaries to learn the answers to most of these questions.&nbsp; My wife read a biography of Sacagawea, and now she insists on pronouncing the name with a soft ‘g’.&nbsp; Her tribe had a hard life.&nbsp; Some of the other Indian tribes would kill members of her tribe, seeing her tribe as competition for the available food.&nbsp; A lot of this was happening just 200 years ago; amazing how much has changed since then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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