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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1433536, member: 26302&quot;]So if one sculptur whose name happened to survive from antiquity didn&#039;t do it, its not art? IDK if Kimon or Euainetos sculpted, does that mean that Syracuse coins were superior to Syracuse sculpture? You know, Picasso and Warhol are dead, I guess that means there is no such thing as art in the world now, huh? Sorry, I just don&#039;t understand the nature of that comment.</p><p><br /></p><p>You say that so much more work is done on aesthetics on coins today more than &quot;even ancient Rome and Greece&quot;. Where is the proof? I would argue more work is done on technical considerations, lowering relief to make it easy to strike, optimizing metal flow to make it easier to strike, making sure the coins are stackable, etc. more than art today. The ancients didn&#039;t worry about any of this, so their artwork on the coins was uninhibited by such pedestrian concerns.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I guess my point about moderns versus ancients boils down to proof. We may SAY we are studying the art of coins a lot, but like you said they are drab. I believe today we have &quot;art by committee&quot; which I believe is the opposite of art. I do not think one work of art designed by a group can ever compare to the single minded design of a true artist. This is what I think the difference is, the greeks had a true artist create the dies, where today 50 people try to design a coin. We can do it if we wish, TR had true artists design our most beautiful coins in US history, but we simply don&#039;t. We spend a lot of time &quot;designing&quot; coins, but its not true art. It lacks soul in my opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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