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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 566060, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Why don&#039;t we have beautiful coins anymore?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Why don&#039;t we have beautiful coins anymore?</p><p>I for one am so bored with State Quarters and modern commemoratives plus buillion that I could puke, right here right now.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>Now Carl and Brooklyn and everyone I&#039;ll be good but the door was opened.</i></p><p>When I look at a classic coin say a AU-58 1959 Indian Cent or a Oregon Commemorative Fifty Cent and think what has happened?</p><p>I was so bored by the time I put Hawaii in my book I could have cried.</p><p>The last truly artistic coins were designed by Elizabeth Jones, poor old Frank Gasparro never stood a chance next to her.</p><p><b>How did we go from classic beautiful coins to tokens that look like they came from Chucky Cheese???</b></p><p>I just don&#039;t get it!</p><p><i>You see I was good - I did not mention once how ugly I think Roosevelt&#039;s, Eisenhower&#039;s, SBA,&#039;s and the worst of all the Sac&#039;s and Presidential Dollars are not to mention Kennedy&#039;s and Franklin&#039;s!</i></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>OHHH, I bet you guys have perked up now???????</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ben is back!! - No not really, well sort of I just had to have a modern coin bashing episode, I&#039;m so sorry but feel much better now. Thanks!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You didn&#039;t expect me to reform overnight did you?&nbsp; If you give me one modern coin bash plus a Third Party Grading bash each week I&#039;ll be satisfied, I think[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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