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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 194611, member: 6229&quot;]Which coin, in your collection, do you think is the nicest?</p><p>Tell us about your coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There are no right or wrong answers. No one is to judge your selection.</p><p>The coin may or may not be your most expensive. It may or may not be your least expensive.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My opinion is the 1987-P United States Constitution Bicentennial Silver Dollar.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The obverse surely fits its purpose: a parchment sheaf is centered on the coin with a quill pen angled on the parchment from middle left to the upper right corner and the inscribed words &quot;We The People&quot; across the bottom of the parchment. Immediately above the parchment is our motto <font size="2">&quot;IN GOD WE TRUST&quot;. </font>Around the rim are the phrases &quot; The U.S. Constitution 200th Anniversary&quot; and (at the bottom) &quot;Liberty&quot; centered between the inaugural date (1787) of the Constitution and the minting date (1987) of the coin. On the exerge between the bottom of the parchment above Liberty and the two dates in a semi-circle is a glory of 13 stars (one for each of the original 13 colonies). The mint mark (P) of my uncirculated coin is to the right of the bottom of the parchment.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now, lets look at the reverse: prominently displayed slightly above the center of the reverse is a cross-section of Americans clothed in various garb representing contrasting lifestyles. There are 13 discernable portrayals. Below the group is the word &quot;DOLLAR&quot; with the figure &quot;1&quot; below it. Around the rim of the reverse, at the bottom is the Legend. &quot;United States States of America&quot;. At the top is the phrase &quot;E.Pluribus Unum&quot;. The phrase and legend are separated by three interlinked circles representing unity.</p><p>Now there&#039;s one more distinction on the reverse I like: The designer&#039;s initials are placed below the 6th figure on the right (a P above a V. The designer of this coin is sculpture Patricia Lewis Virani. She also designed the obverse of the 1988 Seoul Olympiad Commerative Silver Dollar and the obverse of the 1989 Congress Bicentennial Clad Half Dollar.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here&#039;s the image: <a href="http://www.coastcoin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=MDC-87ConstitutionGbu&amp;Category_Code=MD-Commemoratives" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coastcoin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=MDC-87ConstitutionGbu&amp;Category_Code=MD-Commemoratives" rel="nofollow">http://www.coastcoin.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=MDC-87ConstitutionGbu&amp;Category_Code=MD-Commemoratives</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Clinker[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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