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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;352sdeer, post: 2932200, member: 91351&quot;]What ever it turns out to be I’m sure that will get more coins that look like they came out of the pages of comic books. Coinage is taking a turn away from traditional design and I believe that the Artist think they are being creative but all that happens is our coins get uglier. Should the mint issue little cubes? How about we try wire coins? Or metal spheres? Or let’s make them square three D folding hollow sheets of plastic and carbon and glass. WHATS NEXT? Coins in general are dead just like printed media, gas powered vehicles, home phones and a bunch of other stuff that will be obsolete sooner than later. Coins just won’t be needed or accepted for general commerce sooner that we think. </p><p>With that sad note I say we better hope the last of the coins are attractively designed and well executed in their minting because we are going to be stuck with dogs like we have now otherwise for the LAST of our coin heritage. Think about it the only coin that hasn’t been changed is the dime and it’s just pathetic and has been since it’s introduction. Wow we’re stuck with 4 ugly circulating coins, lucky US. Don’t get me started on the little copper game token we have for the cent. And I Love Lincolns. </p><p>The design, art and execution of our coinage is more important than the theme at this time. When the mint turns out new coins the quality of the design and artist skills must be the first consideration not whether the choice was politically motivated within the selection process. Effigy mounds come to mind. How the HECK did that one make it through? I’m sure there were MANY better choices but well we know how it works......wink...wink. And so we get crap for coins. Try submitting the sculpture of Effigy Mounds past the old masters, they would have ruined the career of anyone who would waste their time with crap such as that. I feel we used to get good coins because the selection process was not so top heavy AND the mint directors were all MASTER ENGRAVERS. They knew what quality coins should look like. The last Mint director Edmond C. Moy had ABSOLUTELY Zero experience in coinage. He probably had some in his pocket before his appointment but he had no formal training whatsoever. And he quit in 2011 and Obama never appointed one and I’ll bet Uncle Trumpy won’t either. So alas any new designs will probably be simple, sloppy and unattractive. We won’t get good coinage again until we put Atrists back in as mint directors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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