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Message:: [QUOTE="Morgan1878, post: 588136, member: 17869"]Ah yes the eagles..why have coin designers had so much trouble drawing this bird.  I did not say that the eagle was crummy on the SLQ, only that there is very little artistic relationship between the two sides of this coin. I actually think the SLQ eagle is one of the better executed birds. The eagle on the Walking Liberty looks so heavy, I don't get the impression that it's capable of flight.  The St Gaudens eagle is OK but still on the heavy side..it reminds me more of a cargo plane than a fighter. There is however a common stylistic theme between the front and the back with sun and its rays. The most pathetic eagle of all time is the insignificant bird found on the reverse of the Franklin half. In so far as the Liberty figure goes on the St Gaudens, even if it is heavily influenced by Delacroix, as Salvador Dali once said " If you don't imitate something, you won't achieve anything".  I like the St Gauden's Liberty because she is dynamic, carrying the torch of freedom and obviously marching forward. The rays of the sun backlight liberty and give the coin an expanding feeling beyond the confines of the rim as if to say there are no boundaries as to what the nation can accomplish.  As for the Walking Liberty, she gracefully transverses a peaceful landscape. Perhaps I have a gown fetish as well. In any case, it appears that my preferences are for dynamic rather than standing libertys. Oh and for yum yum points I'll pick the Liberty on the Peace Dollar with her slightly open mouth. It made me very curious as to what the rest of her looked like. The hat is cool as well. I understand the model for this coin was the designer's wife.[/QUOTE]

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