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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 314596, member: 6370&quot;]Looks have never been a factor when it comes to politics with me...and I dont think my statement was regarding how they looked, but how they are depicted...I dont think that JAckson is depicted quite the same as he is in history and portraits:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.whitehousehistory.org/04/subs_pph/images/uploads/7/4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>here he looks contemplative...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/resources/graphic/xlarge/32_00018.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here he looks a bit noble looking off in the distance</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.usmint.gov/images/mint_programs/$1coin/2008PresDollarCoinBanner.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here he just kinda looks shocked and a bit comical...I think my problem is not how the men looked but how they were rendered on the coin...at least in the case of Jackson I dont think they did a very good likeness...I assume it is an adaptation of this portrait:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/resources/Private/Faculty/Fac_To1877ChapterDocFiles/ChapterImages/Ch9jackson.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>then again, sometimes once you SEE the coin it looks better.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>here is what he looked like without the interpretation of a protrait painters brush (at an older age of course)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://gregorear.com/images/jackson.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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