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Message:: [QUOTE="Morgan1878, post: 589750, member: 17869"]Well, I didn't get the answer to the question I was asking in a roundabout way, but will ask in a more direct way now: " Do you think the figure of Liberty on the Peace dollar is a "hottie"." It's trite and somewhat neanderthal, but I have to partially blame another forum member who pointed out her physical beauty in a past thread. My other observation is that if you compare the profile of the Indian on the $10 dollar piece and the profile of Liberty on the Peace Dollar, apart from headwear, they could have been separated at birth. At any rate, you're right about the strikes on the Peace Dollar. I find these hard to grade because of the poor striking. This coin started out as a high relief which I think was how the design was intended to be executed. I've got a couple of these and they are more appealing than the low-relief issues of later years. Regarding modern coins and design..I saw a design of a new Lincoln cent where Lincoln is sitting on a log. What galls me about this design other than the dead president motif is the style which I would call "photo-realism". It's boring. There's no creative element in it, no artistic interpretation, no emotion. It's like a hum-drum buffet. Filling..but not satifying.[/QUOTE]