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Also, Wyoming! Your quarter could have been cool, guys. But it looks like a placeholder while your engraver designed a real cowboy riding a bronco. Wholeheartedly agree. They literally took their license plate logo and slapped it on a quarter. The prominent designer initials make me chuckle. Whew! That was a lot of work!
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Wow, I never made that connection! It really is their license plate logo, isn't it? I guess there is some historical significance to that particular graphic, but there's no reason that they couldn't have had a more realistic, cooler bucking bronco with the same outline for the coin.
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Yes, it really is just their license plate. https://sos.wyo.gov/Services/BHRHistory.aspxThe original "BH&R" logo was designed in 1935 by Allen T. True (of Littleton, Colorado - heh-heh) and first appeared on WY license plates in 1936. Maybe the designer initials on the coin should really be ATT? Given how defensive the above link seems to be about the state's trademark of that logo, I wonder if the US Mint had to pay Wyoming to use it on the coin. |
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Also, Wyoming! Your quarter could have been cool, guys. But it looks like a placeholder while your engraver designed a real cowboy riding a bronco. I think I've heard it described as looking like something from an old coin where all of the detail has been worn off. I have to agree.
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Also, Wyoming! Your quarter could have been cool, guys. But it looks like a placeholder while your engraver designed a real cowboy riding a bronco.
I think I've heard it described as looking like something from an old coin where all of the detail has been worn off. I have to agree. Meanwhile...in another parallel universe... Other finalists designed by The Mint for the Wyoming quarter here are probably circulating as the official release. Then again, it could have been one of the early design suggestions at the very bottom... https://www.quarterdesigns.com/prop...wyoming.html
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Given how defensive the above link seems to be about the state's trademark of that logo, I wonder if the US Mint had to pay Wyoming to use it on the coin. Treasury: Ok, Wyoming, it's your turn. What do you want on your state coin reverse? Wyoming: A trademarked image that requires you to pay me a royalty of. one MILLION dollars! Muahahaha! (Dr. Evil pinkie) Treasury: (sigh) Fine. Washington? Washington: Sharks with laser beams attached to their heads. Treasury: All I can give you is a salmon. Budget cuts, we've already got to pay Wyoming. Washington: Are they ill-tempered? That would be a start.
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It's very interesting. There seem to be several different reasons why people hate certain designs: 1. Poor artwork - hadly drawn portraits or other features or clumsy layout, too cluttered or too much empty space 2. Ugly portrait - not really the artist's fault if they have to portray an unattractive person accurately! 3. Design ok but doesn't work well in circulation - e.g. Peace dollar, SLQ, British Edward VII florin 4. Annoying features for numismatists such as dates on the edge 5. Coins that are simply dull with no attempt at a real design. In this last category I would include...  1971 Guernsey halfpenny  1985 Belize 25 cents  George V Australian halfpenny and penny - the introduction of the kangaroo really livened these coins up!  Syria 1 piastre from World War II - may be excused owing to wartime conditions! |
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Well, I don't necessarily hate it or hate anything really. but the Susan B, Anthony, dollar is pretty ugly to me and I don't necessarily like the Sacagawea dollar either not that she's ugly. It's just the material it's made out of. |
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The coins posted by NumisRob look beautiful to me.  |
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I'm sure this will be sacrilege to some, but the early 1800s "matron" Lady Liberties ...
That 1814 has a physiognomy that launched a thousand ships...only backwards.
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That 1814 has a physiognomy that launched a thousand ships...only backwards. 
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