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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4558939, member: 101855"]One numismatic commentator compared the Lincoln Memorial reverse to a trolly car. The design as never been admired, and how could it be? It takes skill to depict a building on a medal where you can have high relief and multiple blows from the dies to bring up the design. To make a building look good on a coin it takes genuine talent. On a small coin like the cent, it’s fool’s errand, especially with the Lincoln Memorial. The building is impressive on the inside, but outside it’s like a box. It’s not like Monticello where you have porches and some angles that could make the structure more interesting Felix Schalg did with his first design for the Jefferson Nickel, which was not used. The second factor during the early days when I was kid collector was that there was seldom anything that was new. The Franklin Half Dollar was introduced in 1948. The Lincoln Memorial Cent was introduced in 1959. We only get the Kennedy Half Dollar because of the assassination. The clad coinage of 1965 was new, but hardly something that made coin collectors happy. Then there was the Eisenhower Dollar in 1973. Do you see how slowly the new coins used to come along? Now there is a new one every other month.[/QUOTE]