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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oval_man, post: 1515708, member: 22602&quot;]<font face="verdana"></font></p><p><font face="verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="verdana">I totally agree; nothing wrong with having an organization&#039;s logo on a coin—but trying to have it command an entire side is bad thinking. Logos are flat by nature; they are meant to work on letterhead, sides of trucks and cookie packaging. I&#039;m not big on the GS logo but put any other successful logo on a coin and it&#039;s going to be lifeless as well.</font></p><p><font face="verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="verdana">There&#039;s another problem with this design that I&#039;d like to argue—and it&#039;s a problem that seems to afflict a lot of modern coinage. The rendering of the three women is obviously meant to suggest the different stages of life: the cheerfulness of youth, the adventure of adolescence and the growing wisdom of adulthood. While this idea (whatever you might think of it) might work fine <i>as a pencil illustration, </i>it&#039;s a horrible idea for low-relief sculpture, or any sculpture for that matter. First are the technical limitations of reproducing a two-dimensional portrait as low-relief sculpture (and the Sac dollar is one of the few obverses IMO which gets it right—barely). But more of an issue in this case is the fact that that each of these women&#039;s expressions represents, literally, a snapshot in time. They are photography-based expressions—which we know because, frankly, a little girl can&#039;t smile naturally for the 5 hours it takes to draw her likeness.</font></p><p><font face="verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="verdana">Compare this &quot;snapshot,&quot; &quot;aren&#039;t I having fun on my summer vacation&quot; quality with the quiet stature of Lincoln&#039;s portrait on the cent or Liberty on the Peace dollar. The latter are expressionless for a reason: to connote timelessness. The figure, whether Liberty or Lincoln, is not reduced to a superficial &quot;moment&quot; but rather allowed to become symbolic of other things.</font></p><p><font face="verdana"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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