2010 Penny Redesign-Which Of These Designs Is Your Favorite?

I would go with 12 or 17. They seem like more of a 'Classic' design to me.

YES! It's Norbert! That's what I thought first time I saw it. Want want want!!

BigApple, I think the problem is that the Mint is being run by a bunch of, well . . . . I can't think of an exact word. Basically a bunch of people who think things through too directly, rather than around corners. e.g. I don't like my state's (PA) quarter either--given a choice I would have gone with the Brig Flagship Niagara--the pride of West Pennsylvania--and the Liberty Bell--the pride of East Pennsylvania--connected by the thing that gave us our name, Penn's Woods. Instead they gave us some weird little statue nobody outside the Capitol had never seen before, over an outline of the state. "Well, because it's a commonwealth and it's the Statue of the Commonwealth!" I don't care. Stupid reason, stupid design. Too straightforward and as a result, too obscure.

You can see the same thing in the ATB series--while most of the designs are beautiful (I don't think Chaco Culture transfers well to a quarter-sized business-strike planchet--for a long time I thought those were craters, not houses--but that's a personal preference), almost every single park that includes a mountain has the mountain smack-dab in the centre of the planchet. "LOOK AT ME! I'm A MOUNTAIN!!" C'mon--where is the beautiful vista view from the mountain, or the animal crossing a summit path? What about the feature on the mountain that makes it unique from every other mountain in every other state park (flora, fauna, intriguing rockfalls or other geographical features)? Think around the corner.

Until we get some different thinkers in there, the problem will continue.




*Edited because the Capitol did not give the statue to the rest of PA. I need to stop letting my verbs get ahead of my brain.