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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 626352, member: 5233"]I agree that it is very hard to remove a dead President from a coin...and that is probably why one has never been removed from a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, another concern I have is they just wouldn't do a good job with a new design. None of the artists that have made the designs in recent years have done a good job IMHO with the exception of maybe the Sac...which I thought the reverse was the best part of (which they got rid of).</p><p><br /></p><p>With the demand for quantity of coins these days, I wonder if it would be possible to produce a nice quality coin. They have to make so many...at some point you sacrifice design quality for quantity. Combine that with the harder clad planchets we use today (compared to the old softer silver) and I think you have a recipe for an ugly coin. I would love to see an artistic and symbolic design on ours coins as much as anyone...but I just don't know if it could be effectively done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 626352, member: 5233"]I agree that it is very hard to remove a dead President from a coin...and that is probably why one has never been removed from a coin. But, another concern I have is they just wouldn't do a good job with a new design. None of the artists that have made the designs in recent years have done a good job IMHO with the exception of maybe the Sac...which I thought the reverse was the best part of (which they got rid of). With the demand for quantity of coins these days, I wonder if it would be possible to produce a nice quality coin. They have to make so many...at some point you sacrifice design quality for quantity. Combine that with the harder clad planchets we use today (compared to the old softer silver) and I think you have a recipe for an ugly coin. I would love to see an artistic and symbolic design on ours coins as much as anyone...but I just don't know if it could be effectively done.[/QUOTE]
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