What is the best looking US coin?

My thoughts exactly! My other favorite is probably the Walking LIberty Half.
Both are beautiful coins!:smile

 

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Walking Liberty Half and the Peace Dollar get my vote....

 

If I had an 1804 Bust Dollar in a real high grade, then I would probably like the Bust design muchly.

I personally like the Gobrecht dollar with no stars on the obverse & flying eagle reverse.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

Are we doing this just to aggravate people or just aggravating them by accident?
The links are dead and no one even knows who the first 10 posters are!

 

I really like the high relief peace dollar and buffalo nickel.

 

Marotta,

You are right! Most of us tend to think of standard Issue coins when responding to a topic such as this one. Personally, I love the Capped Bust Series. However, even with Miss Liberty's somewhat homely look, it is hard to deny the beauty of the School Girl Morgan Silver Dollar!


Frank

 

Standing Lib quarter is best looking US coin in my book

 

This is a good question. Without a doubt the best coin Aesthetically was the type I Buffalo Nickel. Is was the highest form of art, a masterpiece by the standards of any sculpture and art.

The Buffalo Nickel stands on its own as a unique work of art, different from anything else created in coinage...ever.




Second after that is a slew of coins depending on what art styles you prefer. I believe that as a coin, the Morgan Dollar was at the top of the craft, fulfilling the great potential of the Silver Dollar as an art medium. The Morgan was the craft at it's peak




The Morgan design uses Silver Strikes like no other coin before or since. Many designs have artisitc merit, but few say "COIN" like the Morgan does. The strike of the face is highly personal and gentle and the reverse Eagle while often called a buzzard, has an icon power with great definition when struck well between the head, body and wings. The large open fields gives the coin a maximum capability of showing off the luster and proof like properties of these exquisite strikes. Pride can be seen in the workmanship and design of this coin from end to end.

Another great design, but lesser known is the 2 1/2 and 5 dollar gold eagles. These Enclused designs give end small coins a feeling of weight and the Indian and Eagle are stunning works individually, miniaturized and the most malleable and workable of metal materials, gold. These quarter and half eagles are bold in their experimentation, execution and design.




These coins kicked off the highest era of art in US coinage.

Another coin worthy of mention is the Standing Liberty Quarter. One of the 3 coins that finished the make over of American Coinage between 1916 and -1918, this coin has the most delicate and advanced of design of the period




The pose of Liberty is the most graceful of all US coins, in a classic greek shifted hip pose that is both graceful and powerful, kingly in its duality of royal projection and simple peaceful grace. The upward glazing star recalls the many portraits of Alexander the Great. The reverse Eagle is one of the best ever designed for US coinage, realistic while not overtaxing the limitations of coinage technology. This coin also sports a unique rim, unlike any over design. It suffers from only two drawbacks:

A) It didn't wear well
B) Its almost too complex for the quarter dollar sized coin.

Other mentionalbles include the Peace Dollar which suffers most from the inability of the mint to create good silver dollars in this period, the modern ASE which far supasses the original walking liberty design, The Silver Eagle Clad commemorative, the Columbian Commemorative Half Dollar, the Bar Cent which is years ahead of itself in modern design in any field of art, the Mercury Dime and my personal favorite, the Flying Eagle Cent small cent.


Ruben

 

$20 Saint Gaudens.....

 

The Standing Lib

Soooooo Art Deco.
Love it.

 

Heck, the Chrysler Building's art deco Jack, The Standing Liberty's a Classic.....(tongue in cheek)

 

I agree. Rockerfeller Center is Art Dec. The SLQ would predate that movement buy about 20 years.

Ruben

 

Maybe this?

 

Is this better? Who is this?

 

Here is a new idea - 6 years ago.

 

Something missing?

Ruben

 

Anyone know this fellow?

 

Anyone want to try these links?

 

Yes! The date 09-25-2002, 02:34 PM

 

Yep--in fact, most of those people were on here when I was starting reading and maybe even when I started posting here on CT. In a way that makes me feel old.

Mike still comes around I believe, just doesn't posts all that often. He is a writer for the ANA Mag.

Speedy