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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 962873, member: 66&quot;]The Saint-Gaudens and WLH designs came to the Bullion coins while Elizabeth Jones was still the Chief Engraver.&nbsp; Same person who gave us the 82 Washington Half, the $5 Statue of Liberty, and the 1988 $5 gold obv. (go look at them folks)&nbsp; She knew coin design, at least for commems.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why they came up with the artist infusion program some 14 years ago.&nbsp; Since then they have had a bunch of Graphic artists coming up with the coin designs.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes they did.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure any design has not been panned when it was first introduced.&nbsp; In most cases new designs were ordered to improve the &quot;poor quality existing designs&quot;&nbsp; and in every case once the new designs came out they were criticized as not only not being an improvement but actually being worse.&nbsp; Basically what it comes from is people don&#039;t like change.&nbsp; They get uncomfortable when something is different from what they are used to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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