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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1392818, member: 112&quot;]Well, the coins being flat and lacking relief has nothing to do with the designing artists. That part is not their fault. </p><p><br /></p><p>The modern coins are flat and lacking relief because of production limitations and minting costs. If the coins had higher relief the mint could not make them fast enough to keep up with the needs of the country. Higher relief slows down the presses, puts more wear and tear on the presses, greatly increases the number of dies used to produce a given number of coins, and slows down the production of working dies. And all of this costs a lot more money.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the artistic design is also affected by costs and production considerations. The design has to be one that is balanced, obv vs rev, so that it will strike up well at minimum pressures, and not cause undue wear on the dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not saying they couldn&#039;t come up with better artistic designs for these reasons, merely that these things have a distinct impact on the artistic designs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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