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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2656067, member: 15588&quot;]I admit I&#039;ve never understood all of the rancor thrown at the SBA dollar from a purely aesthetic perspective. I <i>completely</i> understand its utter and humiliating failure as a coin in commerce and why it didn&#039;t catch on and why people hated it from that perspective. But, economic foibles aside, as a design in and of itself, I&#039;ve always liked the coin. The reverse just re-used the Eisenhower dollar&#039;s reverse in miniature and I rarely hear complaints about that. So is the problem the portrait? Is it because she&#039;s not a pretty woman? I&#039;ll freely admit that Susan B. Anthony was no looker by today&#039;s standards (or perhaps by many other standards as well), but that aside I find the obverse well rendered and proportioned in a pleasing way.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.usacoinbook.com/us-coins/susan-b-anthony-dollar.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In short, I&#039;ve seen <i>far</i> uglier coins than the SBA out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many have cited the Churchill crown as an ugly coin, almost always referring to Churchill&#039;s less than flattering visage.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/photos/royaume-uni/g4974.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>To me an ugly person doesn&#039;t necessarily make for an ugly coin, it depends more on how well the coin depicts the person, but I&#039;m probably in a distinct minority on that point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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