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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PdlJmpr, post: 1212489, member: 23797&quot;]&#039;</p><p>I think all your negative comments are overly simple and lazy.&nbsp; One&nbsp; of the first words little kids learn is &quot;no&quot; and most grow up never&nbsp; learning the beauty of &quot;yes&quot; and how many more opportunities come with&nbsp; the affirmative.&nbsp; I am guilty of complaining that there are too many new&nbsp; design to keep up with, but then I remember how few there were my first&nbsp; thirty years of collecting.</p><p>In 1979 I saw the first SBA and thought&nbsp; they could have done better with the design, but I have two sets because&nbsp; they were minted in my country and because the Red Book is not a&nbsp; popularity contest.&nbsp; I rented a house in Boulder for a couple of years&nbsp; at that same time.&nbsp; A couple of decades later Glenna Goodacre lived in&nbsp; that house while she created the Sacagawea dollar.&nbsp; I would have&nbsp; considered that eagle reverse my most favorite anyway, but the story&nbsp; makes it that more special and I wish I could make her acquaintance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have you ever&nbsp; googled images of one or another president?&nbsp; Basically all variations of&nbsp; the same small handful painted or photographed way back when that all&nbsp; more or less look like the guy.&nbsp; What do you want, a Buchanan that looks as good as George Cloonie?&nbsp; I know Washington didn&#039;t want his likeness&nbsp; placed on coins because he didn&#039;t want to be seen as the potentates he&nbsp; fought to eliminate, but 235 years later is it possible to look at the&nbsp; likeness of a president and honor their contribution to the value and&nbsp; growth of our beloved country instead of equating president with king?&nbsp;&nbsp; The President Dollar series has given me the opportunity to review and&nbsp; learn each man&#039;s life story and my series album has a companion volume&nbsp; with two-page history and pictures of each.&nbsp; I&#039;m enjoying the research&nbsp; and showing it off that I&#039;m thinking about doing the same for each ATB&nbsp; quarter and if I really have a lot of time going back to the first&nbsp; statehood series.&nbsp; Knowing the story behind the coin either makes a&nbsp; worthy design better or makes a less desirable design more tolerable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the Liberty reverse is clean, fresh and beautiful because I have had this thing for the famous statue since her centennial in 1986.&nbsp; I always thought edge lettering was cool (before my eyes got old) and was in favor of leaving all the mottoes there to spite all those too blind to see.&nbsp; The token-ish look bothered me until I realized that a picture is worth a thousand words and the picture is the honor and value we place in what stands behind the currency.&nbsp; Does anyone know what I&#039;m talking about?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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