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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Flagman, post: 26229943, member: 149686&quot;][ATTACH=full]1675243[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1675244[/ATTACH]&nbsp; Roosevelt wrote in the footnote of the letter thanking St Gaudens, <i>&quot;I don&#039;t want to slop over, but I feel just as if we had suddenly imported a little of Greece of the 5th or 4th centuries BC into America...&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>But I don’t see ancient Classical or Hellenistic Greece in this medal at all. In particular, Roosevelt’s eye is disproportionately, almost grotesquely, small and obscure. </p><p><br /></p><p>I collect fine style Ancient Greek and for me, of all the traits of a design, it is how the eye is rendered that makes all the difference in seeing humanity and life in a coin. Eyes on most American coinage are lifeless when you look closely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two of my coins that are particularly alive in large part because of how the eyes are engraved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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