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<p>[QUOTE="mrbrklyn, post: 1447004, member: 4381"]Not all the classic liberty designs were good. the Seated Liberty was a knock off of the British Britanica and IMO was ugly as sin. People complained about the Barba design (although I liked it). Before that, the Capped Bust was terrible, something we easily forget only because so few of them exist today so we have them in small doses/</p><p><br /></p><p>The golden age of US coins was started with Teddy Roosevelt, and it might have been the only period that coins were really decent. World class artists were put to work including the Buffalo Nickel, Walker, SLQ, and Merc, Peace Dollar not to mention the gold coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>They also lucked out with the elegance of the Morgan Dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The portraits are garbage but just using a classic liberty is not good enough either.</p><p><br /></p><p>ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mrbrklyn, post: 1447004, member: 4381"]Not all the classic liberty designs were good. the Seated Liberty was a knock off of the British Britanica and IMO was ugly as sin. People complained about the Barba design (although I liked it). Before that, the Capped Bust was terrible, something we easily forget only because so few of them exist today so we have them in small doses/ The golden age of US coins was started with Teddy Roosevelt, and it might have been the only period that coins were really decent. World class artists were put to work including the Buffalo Nickel, Walker, SLQ, and Merc, Peace Dollar not to mention the gold coins. They also lucked out with the elegance of the Morgan Dollar. The portraits are garbage but just using a classic liberty is not good enough either. ruben[/QUOTE]
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