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Sba's For $1.50 Each From My LCS, I Think I Did Well Enough.

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Coins should represent the grandeur of this country. This does not.


Any coin with a reverse celebrating the moon landing is certainly capturing the grandeur or the country, far more than many other coins in all honesty.
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Certainly the least-loved of all US coin designs, with little competition.
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and several of the early eagles didn't exactly resemble an eagle.
That is the truth.


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Any coin with a reverse celebrating the moon landing is certainly capturing the grandeur or the country, far more than many other coins in all honesty.
Agreed.
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"Sure, the Half Disme would be mocked today, but it would never have been proposed. We live with a lot of forgettable designs in our era, but none as ugly as this hawk-nosed profile. Coins should represent the grandeur of this country. This does not."


I dunno Coinfrog, I think Susan B. Anthony was a handsome man. Susan was a strange name for a boy though...
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Susan was a strange name for a boy though
I think there is a song about that.
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I think is's an ugly coin because SBA was ugly.

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