Top Three Worst Coin Designs

Wouldn't that be more religion than politics?

 

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lmao

 

1) 2011 sacagawea
2) State quarters (I want my eagle back)
3) *save spot for future coin*

 

BARBERS, all day long...

 

Believe it or not, Anthony's family, which was consulted on the design, were not happy with it either. But they felt that the designer had made "Aunt Susan" too pretty.

 

I put it in the worst class, not because it's a bad design, but because it's a design that would be great for a Medal, but is far too "busy" and terrible for a coin. Its obverse and reverse are both too crowded with minimal room left over for the mottoes, and not even enough room for the required IGWT. From any distance at all, it looks like some sort of game piece.

Plus, it's probably the only coin ever that has a *ahem* member *cough* on it.

 

The main reason that the dies were cracking was because of the newness on minting coins in nickel, which is much harder that the copper, silver and gold used up to that point. It took a while before they were able to get the die hardness and required pressure right which is why many of the first ones appeared weakly struck. One early attempt to solve the problem was to remove the rays, not because they were causing die cracking, but because it was felt that pushing that additional metal into the coin would result in an overall improvement in the strike, especially in the shield lines on the obverse.

Yes, I know the three cent nickels started a year earlier but they had the same problems with weak strike and cracked dies. However, everything being equal, it's a bit easier to strike a smaller coin than a bigger. The five cent is about 2.5 times more massive than the three cent.

 

Ike
SBA
Any circulating coin designed by Charles Barber (when circulated; they're actually not horrible when unc.)

Of course, I'm leaving out most of the statehood quarters and the more obvious Modern commems, the most hideous of which was shown earlier.

Special mention goes to the Winston Churchill commemorative from the UK.

 

this one is going to get some boo's for me, but my opinion is my opinion.

1- barber dime/quarter/half
2- morgan dollar (yeah, i said it)
3- modern coinage with a dead president on it

 

1) Franklin Half
2) 2-cent piece
3) State Quarters (including the spaghetti-haired obverse). I want the eagle back!

 

A lot of hate for the Barber series. Thanks for making it easier for me to obtain these coins!

 

Any consolation, I love the Barber design. They are just so bloody expensive to find in MS!!

 

Worse looking coins to me were the Barber anything. Funny thing is they were followed by my two favorite coins the walking liberty Half and the winged liberty (Mercury) dime. To me the Walker half is the most beautiful coin ever minted.

 

Certainly this coin should be considered for inclusion in the Top (or is that Bottom?) Three:

 

The only US coin that I would never collect because of the ugly factor is the SBA dollar.

 

The buffalo nickel is one of my favorites ..

The "bad" list for the state quarters series is endless . . I can't even narrow it down to three.

And Eunice Shriver must have been shocked when she saw that coin design. It looks like Peter Falk with Peter Fonda's hair from Easy Rider.

 

SBA
Sacegewa
Presidential Dollars

It's odd how a country can produce some of the classiest coins in the world yet still produce turkeys such as the above.

May I also point out that if you Yanquis had not left the glorious British Empire on which the sun never sets, you would have had some even better looking coinage. It's not too late to come back, we are a forgiving people after all, especially towards our colonial children. There is a small matter of 200 years of back taxes however which I am prepared, as the Johnny-on-the-spot, to collect at my PayPal address. Please make sure you return Detroit to it's proper state before handing it back. Thanks.

/trolling

 

1. Barber coins
2. Anything with a President, Monarch, or ruler on it.
3. And a 3 way tie between Sacs, Ikes, and SBAs.

Them all be some pug fugly coins.

 

I take that back.

redwin117's dumb error coin he has started multiple threads about takes the cake for worst coin ever.