Presidential dollars...UGLY

I just wish they would do away with the P and D's. Just make one for the whole country. We small time collectors who don't buy from the mint have to run around and try to find the one we can't get at our banks. I'm thinking about stopping to collect these because a.) I feel like I HAVE to collect them because I can get them at face, but don't really like them and b.) I hate running around looking for the "P" version

 

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J.Q. Adams looks like the phantom of the opera, A. Jackson looks like someone hit him in the side of the head with a sledgehammer - knocking his face off-kilter, Van Buren looks like a clown.
I didn't think the mint could make uglier coins than the 1st presdent series - but they managed to find a way.
to anyone at the mint: the 3/4 view is not working! For coins a profile view works much better. One of my many gripes about the new dollar coin.

 

I just go ahead and cross off that roll of Jefferson nickels from your Christmas gift list for next year.

 

I would agree that the bill is a copy of the portrait I posted above and the coin is TRYING to be similar to it, but it fails...looking at these two in the same post, they just dont look that terribly similar and the portrait on the coin has odd mouth and eyebrows that just dont look right...

But again, maybe its just the image and the coin portrait will look better.

 

This is how these men looked. I for one credit them with being realistic.

Jackson looks kinda messed up, but I attribute that to the mint image

 

I don't like the new nickel design either - but don't get me started.

 

just wonder what will happen in the future with possibly a hillary coin or obama or a huck buck or.................................



steve

 

I agree with Drusus. The coin's portrait is much worse than the one one the $20.

 

Nobody's making you get both the P and the D. If you only want to collect one presidential dollar for each president, go ahead. I personally just collect one D for each president (being close to the Denver Mint, I can as many as I care to at exactly face value). I also get the S incidentally due to my habit of buying each year's proof set.

As to the main topic, I don't see anything wrong with the portraits. That's how they looked more or less, based on existing portraits of them. Andrew Jackson was not particularly photogenic. The portrait on the $20 bill is more forgiving but the coin if anything is a bit more realistic.

When we get to presidents that served at a time when photography was commonplace I'd expect the coins to be even more realistic and not so much a "best guess" based on painted portraits.

 

Hey, just hang in there. There are some really good looking men coming up in the future; Millard Fillmore, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon among others.

 

Presidential Dollars = Casino Chips
At least I think they look like something you would get from a casino in Vegas.

 

There are certainly some great presidents to come. Abe Lincoln will be a big one, obviously. But pehaps there are some other angles people have not considered

I heard about the one for Taft..... it was going to need to be a large clad dollar to hold his large photo. lol... bad joke, I know.

Everyone will need to add 2 more dollars to have a complete "Eisenhower Dollar" collection....... good thing that most Eisenhower folders also have the Susan Bs too. you can fit the small ikes in there too.

Skip a Kennedy Dollar and just give people the relatively unused halves......

 

Mr. Fillmore is just dreamy.