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Canada
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Being in Canada I don't have access to a lot of U.S. coins,but the ones I have seen and have,I'll have to vote no worst designs.``I like them all.  |
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United States
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I dont mind the Franklin halfs, true that the Walkers were alot better but I dont think the Kennedy half is all that great. Anyways, I don't have 10 worst, but a few off the top of my head are any of the dollar coins from Ikes till now and the absolute most horrible thing ever, the State Quarter. |
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United States
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5 "best" State Quarter reverses: Delaware, Connecticut, North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas 5 "worst" reverses: Alabama, Missouri, Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin Will have to think about the original OPs list. |
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United States
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My list! 10. State Quarter obverse: Just tooo busy. 9. 1993 Bill of Rights Commemorative Dollar: It's..awkward looking, and "oh, look! Another building." 8. 1936 Bridgeport, Connecticut, Centennial Half: PT Barnum and Art Deco Eagle. 'Nuff said. 7. 2004 Michigan State Quarter: Boring. 6. 1893 Isabella Quarter: Kinda ugly in my opinion. 5. 2005 Nickel obverse: How much more face can we get on a coin? 4. Presidential dollar: The letters on the obverse are so tiny I can barely read them! 3. Capped Bust coins: I just don't like the portrait. 2. Susan B. Anthony dollar: Horrible, horrible design. Not thought out too well. 1. Norfolk, VA bicentennial half: Way, way too busy. Three rings of text around a city Seal on the obverse... |
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United States
2044 Posts |
I checked out all those you listed and I'd have to agree. Also, Ohio, the state where I live. The design isn't bad but it isn't good either in my opinion.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2044 Posts |
I like the reverse of the Susan B. Anthony dollar which was the same as the previous dollar. But I also like the rim effect to the design. I'm not sure what that is called officially. |
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 United States
1302 Posts |
I agree with the State Quarters... I think they have all but ruined the once proud design of the Washington quarter. Maybe the state park reverses are better- I'll leave that up to the test of time- but that poor cluttered ugly low relief quarter has got to go. The 1932-1990s era quarter looked like sculpture... not so much now. My problem with modern commemoratives is that they take the topic too literally. The disabled veteran coin, the army coins--- are just plain terrible. No style, no emotion. Coinage should be aspirational, in my view. Liberty was always an ideal. It was an interpretation. What we see now is a bunch of by the books- objects. |
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United States
642 Posts |
Not a beauty queen is definitely an understatement....The coin actually made her look a little better. I'm not deriding her accomplishments. I think the problem with commems today is every group wants to be represented 'specifically' in their state, region, organization, etc. It makes for ugly cluttered coins. Besides commemoratives, I'd have to say any of the newer modern 'lazer' engraved coins look like nothing more than ugly, flat chuck-e-cheese tokens. (State quarters, Presidential dollars, Modern Jeffersons, etc) |
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United States
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Coinage should be aspirational, in my view. Liberty was always an ideal. It was an interpretation. What we see now is a bunch of by the books- objects. I agree.. I was looking throught the designs of the $10 gold coins for the First Ladies (which I forgot existed, by the way), and for the presidents that didn't have wives, they used an era Liberty design for the obverse. They look sooooo much better than people on coins, especially modern ones! I wish they would go back... |
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New Member
United States
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I suppose I'm strange - I love the small eagle designs on gold/silver coins. In my eyes, it represents that America hasn't always been a gigantic eagle: it started off thinner and has grown/matured over time :) I also love the draped bust/turban head as it's such an obviously old/antique style. Both also basically scream "expensive" so they're easy to pick out ;D
In my eyes, I distinctly don't like worn Barbers or anything with a president on it.
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United States
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Maybe they could have done something else other than a bust, like have her shown as a standing figure with some of the athletes or something. Like maybe not put her on it at all considering unlike what a lot of people believe she did NOT found the special olympics. Anne McGlone Burke founded the event and approached Shriver seeking funding. Shriver "took over" and became the founder in the eyes of the media. Even on the coin it calls her the founder. Maybe Burke might have made a better portrait for the coin. Can't get the image to come up Edited by Conder101
10/29/2011 09:54 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1358 Posts |
^^ I just realized that's a woman on that coin  lol |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1150 Posts |
Oh, and is she ever sooooooo beautiful!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3453 Posts |
I hadn't seen a 1995 Special Olympics coin until now - that is awful! I would have to say that one is my top least favorite now because not only is it not an ugly design, it really does not do any justice to what it is supposed to commemorate.
I agree the current commemorative coins are often bland and without emotion but this has a "face squinch" factor when first viewing it.
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New Member
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One thing when you think about poor design, are you judging from a collector's perspective or in terms of spending/circulation? As a collector your measuring stick is just aesthetics, but from the mint's point of view there's also the practical considerations, like as was pointed out the SBA dollar looks like a quarter and it's confusing, also all the old big dollars would be bulky in a pocket but they often get high aesthetic points BECAUSE they're big. I think today's gold-tinted dollar coins are ugly as heck but they're the most sensible dollar coins we've ever minted in terms of circulation. |
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