Yes I'm Complaining

I know the designs of Lincoln Cents have been discussed here numerous times, one individual accussed anyone not liking the designs as whiners.

I guess I'll whine and complain a little more. I have my proof set of the '09 Lincoln Cents now. My complaint is only about one of the four. With all the things this man did as President, couldn't the final coin been someting else other than a construction site? I have tried to picture this as a symbol of a rebuilding of the Union, but really. I feel better now and am prepared to called complainer, whiner, or whatever.

 

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Complain away......not sure I like any of them, but oh well....

 

I like the Log Cabin penny, and that is it, the rest are ugly.
BRING BACK THE WHEAT!
The memorial didn't do much for me... These don't, and the newer designs really don't either...
I thought the wheat was beautiful, and I would love to see it again

 

The first three I think are okay, but the fianl one is very poor IMO.

 

I think the worst thing they did to the Lincoln cent , was keep redesigning Lincolns' portrait , they took a beautiful design , and trashed it in the last few years . Now it looks like a caricature or something , not strong like the '09 design .
rzage

 

I would love to have buckWheat on the back of the Lincoln. O-Tay ) Traci

 

since this seems to be the complaint department, here is my complaint, first I think Lincoln was one of our best presidents, and better yet a good man. But one of the things that made americas coinage originally unique was not memorializing personages, every other nations coin always had ceaser, the king, the emperor, or the tsar on it, our coins had a personification of liberty as a lady.
It started with Lincoln with the 100th anniversery of his birth, then washington in 32, then jefferson, then roosevelt in 46, then franklin, then kennedy, our coins no longer idealize but are memorials to the past, at least they have not gone so far as to put sitting presidents on the circulating coinage, but that is probably coming.

Get rid of the presidents, bring miss liberty back!

 

The fact that all our circulating coins are dead presidents has had a lot of complaints here, and I'm sure every so often it will rightfully continue to have.

 

I completely agree and have said the same thing many times. I think we need to go back to symbolic images of Liberty and such (ie, the Flying Eagle was nice too) on our coins.

 

Overall, having the Presidents on our coins bores me. Bring back LIBERTY! Bring back the warriors and chiefs of this land. Ben Franklin was a nice touch as was Alexander Hamilton. The '09 Nat Am $1s are a nice new change but not a super design, personally speaking. Lewis & Clark on the 5¢ was a welcome idea but it kind of feels generic, a boat! hmm... I hope there's a trend away from Presidential portraits continuing in the future, it's less rigid and static. Other countries have great artists and scholars on their modern currency. The US should perhaps also.

 

the nice thing about having an allegorical figure of Liberty was that the designs were so varied, not the typical profile or even front on bust. Each design was unique. The posssibilities were endless.

man, I miss those days...

 

I like only LP1 AND LP2. the others I wouldn't have chosen for the reverse design. AND they are hard as heck to scan and get presentable pics. Here's what I mean.

 

Give me Liberty or give me death. :whistle:

 

............the designs should have been put up for a vote to the public. after all it's the public that uses (or is supposed to use) the coins in the first place. majority should rule.

 

Alexander Hamilton??? Whose coins have you been using?

Interestingly in the past when they have put the choice of subjects up to a vote by the people (For what eventually became the SBA and the Sac dollar) the overwhelming choice has always been for an allegorical portrait of Liberty. And then the special interest groups would wade in and we got SBA and Sacagawea.

 

Agreed...
Back to ideals instead of people.

 

The cabin looks like the Unabomber's cabin.

 

@Conder101

Know your notes! Hamilton is on the $10 Bill, he was the First Secretary of the Treasury and his likeness continues to be a non-president portrait in use on US modern currency:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US10dollarbill-Series_2004A.jpg

While this is 'Coin Talk, some people discuss notes and paper currency, by extension of US Presidential portraits being used on modern coin designs, I extended this to paper as well since they appear there. Figured that was a pretty easy leap to make.

 

You nail that one:hammer:

 

In the beginning, coins were struck with George Washington's bust on them and good ole George gave a resounding NO to the idea of his portrait being on any coins! :hammer: I believe that should have always been the case, except for Commemoratives. :thumb:

What we should do is rally together to get Congress to apply that rule to our coins and I think the best way to do that would be a proposed amendment to the constituion. That should get their attention, even if the amendment doesn't pass but to get an amendment proposed, isn't a simple task. :goofer: What would help is to find a governor that is an avid coin collector and get that governor to propose the amendment to their legislature and go from there. :thumb:

Anyone have an idea of who we can talk into this? :high5:

Ribbit

Ps: I just found out Bill Clinton is/was an avid coin collector. Maybe he might be a good place to start? :thumb: