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Son-a ma-gun That's a gorgeous coin .  |
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yep, that's pretty sweet. the design has a real Metropolis feel to it. I like the coin designs from that era.
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That's a high relief, not an ultra high relief, different type of coin. The high relief coins required three blows of the coining press with annealing between strikes, the Ultra high reliefs took nine to eleven blows to fully strike up. Both completely impractical and the reason they eventually switched to the low or regular relief version that could be struck with a single blow. |
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Oh my. Hey, if you're gonna dream...dream big. Now who has those winning numbers to give me?
ANA member - PAN Member - BCCS Member There are no problems only solutions - the late, great John Lennon
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A minor point:
I have always thought that the later design with the motto below the flying eagle is a better design,
because the addition of the extra lettering below the eagle helps to balance the large amount of lettering above the eagle.
Pity the motto wasn't on the high relief coins.
?Thoughts from anybody else?
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The motto may help artistically, but I object to its inclusion.
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Pity the motto wasn't on the high relief coins.
?Thoughts from anybody else? Agreed. Should have been on them all |
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United States
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There are other ways to balance the lettering at the top, e.g. the sun could be bigger or higher relief, or put the denomination down there.
This particular motto shouldn't be on any coins. Besides, between this, "E Pluribus Unum", "Liberty", "United States of America", and the often spelled-out denomination, there are way too many words. Mottos have become the NASCAR patches of numismatics.
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10/20/2019 9:29 pm
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Mottos have become the NASCAR patches of numismatics. You are entitled to your opinion but given that NASCAR was founded in the 1940s and Mottos had been around LONG before that seems like an inaccurate comparison. The motto had been on coins long before the Ultra high relief and leaving it off was a change not the norm |
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My comparison was about the visuals of too many things that someone decided to put there, not all of them directly related to the item itself.
It was an earlier change from the norm to put it on coins in the first place.
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10/20/2019 11:54 pm
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Fascinating!  |
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