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<p>[QUOTE="mrbrklyn, post: 589734, member: 4381"]The Peace dollar is a unique attempt but IMO, it fails to pull off the artisitic vision in the technology of coin mintage. It would have been better, perhaps, as a Gold Piece. The reverse Eagle just is a great concept that they NEVER was able to strike correctly and it wears horribly. The Obverse was the only example of the coin design to acquire and assimilate many of the concepts, both socially and aesthetically, of modernism.</p><p><br /></p><p>What it has going for it, however, is that there has been no other attempt to bring this kind of modernism to coinage and instead we are stuck with dead presidents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mrbrklyn, post: 589734, member: 4381"]The Peace dollar is a unique attempt but IMO, it fails to pull off the artisitic vision in the technology of coin mintage. It would have been better, perhaps, as a Gold Piece. The reverse Eagle just is a great concept that they NEVER was able to strike correctly and it wears horribly. The Obverse was the only example of the coin design to acquire and assimilate many of the concepts, both socially and aesthetically, of modernism. What it has going for it, however, is that there has been no other attempt to bring this kind of modernism to coinage and instead we are stuck with dead presidents. Ruben[/QUOTE]
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