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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 314932, member: 4626&quot;]Nobody&#039;s making you get both the P and the D.&nbsp; If you only want to collect one presidential dollar for each president, go ahead.&nbsp; 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).&nbsp; I also get the S incidentally due to my habit of buying each year&#039;s proof set.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the main topic, I don&#039;t see anything wrong with the portraits.&nbsp; That&#039;s how they looked more or less, based on existing portraits of them.&nbsp; Andrew Jackson was not particularly photogenic.&nbsp; The portrait on the $20 bill is more forgiving but the coin if anything is a bit more realistic.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we get to presidents that served at a time when photography was commonplace I&#039;d expect the coins to be even more realistic and not so much a &quot;best guess&quot; based on painted portraits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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