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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3516946, member: 101855"]The interesting about this design is that the mint paid Schlag for his winning design and then changed most of the aspects of it. Sorry Jefferson Nickel lovers, but the government ordered reverse has never to done anything for me. It lacks depth and visual interest. Years ago a critic called the Lincoln Memorial Cent reverse “a trolley car” and to me the Jefferson Nickel looks pretty much the same way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Schlag’s original design was much better, but the claim was the mint could not mass produce it. In other words, it would not have struck well on the high speed presses of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a photo of Monticello from the "Jefferson Nickel Angle."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]933826[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Oddly enough I didn't take a photo of the left side of the building at the same angle as the Schlag design. I do have this one of the right side. Since the building is fairly symmetrical, which was considered to be an esthetic requirement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the view is similar to the Schlag design.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]933829[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 3516946, member: 101855"]The interesting about this design is that the mint paid Schlag for his winning design and then changed most of the aspects of it. Sorry Jefferson Nickel lovers, but the government ordered reverse has never to done anything for me. It lacks depth and visual interest. Years ago a critic called the Lincoln Memorial Cent reverse “a trolley car” and to me the Jefferson Nickel looks pretty much the same way. Schlag’s original design was much better, but the claim was the mint could not mass produce it. In other words, it would not have struck well on the high speed presses of the time. Here is a photo of Monticello from the "Jefferson Nickel Angle." [ATTACH=full]933826[/ATTACH] Oddly enough I didn't take a photo of the left side of the building at the same angle as the Schlag design. I do have this one of the right side. Since the building is fairly symmetrical, which was considered to be an esthetic requirement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the view is similar to the Schlag design. [ATTACH=full]933829[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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