Your favorite single side of a US coin.

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Was originally posted in the first page of this thread, post #17. Just relinking a broken image url to the thread...

 

mine is the reverse of the sac dollar, beautiful coin all round...

 

US Philippine Peso

My favorite US coin imagery is on the US Territorial Peso. I prefer the obverse (liberty striking the forge of freedom) even though it seems like the conventional obverse/reverse of this coin is labeled backwards:
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Hmm... I seem to have messed up that image post. Here goes again:

 

The eagle on the Franklin half.

Lol, jk, for me its the eagle on the rev. of a trade dollar.

 

If we are counting patterns, then can we count the intended designs of the original artists. Here is a photo of the bronze cast of MaCneil's Standing Liberty design.

 

Is that the fameous bronze that was found which is not for sure it was related to before or after the coin was actually minted? FWIW, I like the coin strike better.

 

Hermon MacNeil's bronze cast

 

I like that SL design better then the coin design.

 

Wow, I've never seen this pattern before; thanks for posting. MacNeil got the figure right in this pattern; much more graceful than the issue (I'm guessing the reduced scale of the final dies is somewhat responsible for the clumsiness of the final figure). Compare the shoulder and legs of each:


He maintained in the pattern the beautiful curve of the exposed hip/leg, where the great trochanter (top of femur) presses out the hip, which can be compared (back view) to this tremendous drawing (c. 1800) by Pierre Paul Prud'hon:

 

Wow, Photobucket deleted the drawing; I guess an 1800 charcoal drawing makes them too hot under the collar (unless it's a copyright concern). Here it is censored, even though it interferes with my whole point about the graceful structure of the figure.

 

Oval
It is sad that art is banned in 2011
I thought we grew out of the 50'S mind set

 

I'd make a comment about Lady Gaga here, but don't want to stray from the topic of the thread.

 

V nickel obverse or $20 Liberty head reverse.

 

Nor do I but that is one beautiful etching

 

You really shouldn't be too surprised about this on CT, just read the rules to get a sense of the atmosphere they are trying to maintain:

While it is 'censored' on this forum site, you can certainly find the artworks of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon uncensored on the net, just run a Google Image search for many elegant examples of his creative output.

 

Krispy, thanks for the comment but it was censored by Photobucket. It surprised me a little, but I'm sure they're only following their guidelines.

 

Yes, that is correct. Photobucket does censor/not allow nude imagery to be hosted via their site. It is indeed written into the terms and conditions that all electing to use Photobucket must agree to when registering an account on their site. While it limits the sharing of what may be tasteful and artistic renderings of the human form it also prevents abuse and issues arising from other imagery some may deem and/or debate to be otherwise. At least we have the other channels open via the internet to turn to if what interests us on one site is limited but available elsewhere.