Can Coin Collecting Survive Awful Modern Designs?

IMO America can't produce aesthetic coins today because they don't value art or artists period. Artists are left to die on the curb.

In France, if you're an artist or a teacher you're considered a God! In America, if you're an artist, you're considered a bum who doesn't want to work, and if you're a teacher, you're someone who couldn't make it in the business world or on wall street.

American capitalists, who want to turn this country into a nation of underpaid slaves and serfs, don't value art and therefore the people can no longer produce it because the principles of artistic design and development, and art in general, are no longer taught in schools; including such things as *symmetry*.

Look at that new nickle, Jesus! Jefferson's head sticking out the edge of the rim? Peek-a-boo? Duh? I think one thing that is definitely wrong, is that they've left the time tested principles of good art for something intended to be new and exciting, but got something new and ugly instead.

I liked the new Shield cents, when I actually looked at them.

England is doing very well right now - the new Royal Shield sets might look shoddy on their own, but its very satisfying if you should find a full set in your pocket.

Theres truth to this. The one difference is our coins will be conserved in much higher grades since coins are better made, better ways to preserve them, and cash is just used less. I dont think most will see the premiums old coins have without being top grades though. Now if they switch to really cheap metals that may take 100s of years to catch on