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<p>[QUOTE="WingedLiberty, post: 1212110, member: 26030"]me too!</p><p><br /></p><p>i am mostly French-English & Scotch-Irish ... but with a small amount of American Indian (Blackfoot Tribe) thrown in there ... most of us are "mutts" here in the U.S.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>In my opinion ... </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>The best new coin design of this decade </b>(why they dropped this stunning design is beyond me) ... A soaring eagle in full flight ... look at those feathers and wing tips ... also an inspried inner positioning of the 13 stars ... i think this is the first US coin with stars not on the very outer perimeter (innovative and new!) ... this is (or I should say, was) just jaw droppingly beautiful and inspiring.</p><p>[ATTACH]128240.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>A subway token (looks so cheap that it doesnt even look like a U.S. coin) ... </b>Are you seriously going to put a "$1" on the back of a coin? Are you kidding me? While you are at it, why not just scribble "A Buck" on the back and be done with it. Could they have made this look any more cheap? Just to clarify, I dont mind the statue of liberty part of the design just the lettering part is so bad, uninspired, and uninteresting.</p><p>[ATTACH]128241.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Whoever designed the flying eagle back of the old Sac. Dollar should be put in charge of all the U.S. Mint designs, he or she is the ONLY person on the U.S. Mint staff with any talent at all. The rest of them are all hacks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="WingedLiberty, post: 1212110, member: 26030"]me too! i am mostly French-English & Scotch-Irish ... but with a small amount of American Indian (Blackfoot Tribe) thrown in there ... most of us are "mutts" here in the U.S. [B]In my opinion ... [/B] [B] The best new coin design of this decade [/B](why they dropped this stunning design is beyond me) ... A soaring eagle in full flight ... look at those feathers and wing tips ... also an inspried inner positioning of the 13 stars ... i think this is the first US coin with stars not on the very outer perimeter (innovative and new!) ... this is (or I should say, was) just jaw droppingly beautiful and inspiring. [ATTACH]128240.vB[/ATTACH] [B]A subway token (looks so cheap that it doesnt even look like a U.S. coin) ... [/B]Are you seriously going to put a "$1" on the back of a coin? Are you kidding me? While you are at it, why not just scribble "A Buck" on the back and be done with it. Could they have made this look any more cheap? Just to clarify, I dont mind the statue of liberty part of the design just the lettering part is so bad, uninspired, and uninteresting. [ATTACH]128241.vB[/ATTACH] Whoever designed the flying eagle back of the old Sac. Dollar should be put in charge of all the U.S. Mint designs, he or she is the ONLY person on the U.S. Mint staff with any talent at all. The rest of them are all hacks.[/QUOTE]
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