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I dislike the small dollar usa coins. I wanted to love them but nope. I'm also disillusioned over the 10 billion quarter designs. I thought it was kind of cool with the 50 State Quarters but they went too far. I recently gave all my modern quarters to a local kid who adores them. |
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1792 silver Half Disme 1793 Flowing Hair Chain Cent (first coin produced by Philadelphia Mint for widespread circulation)...Liberty with the always bad hair day.  Flowing Hair Half Dollar and Dime (1794-1795)  and Effigy Mounds Quarter 2017 reverse  Edited by datadragon
05/01/2023 01:01 am
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I hate any type of low denomination Euro's. I will not collect them. Each country involved seems to have lost their coin identity...IMO Low denomination euros are all over the place. Some are beautiful, some are much less so. Some are beautiful at first but get tiresome quickly. I do kind of miss the highly varied pre-euro coinage. As for the 1966 Zambian penny (on page 1), it faces stiff competition from the 1968 Malawian penny. Meanwhile the Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 convertible mark tries its best to look like a fantasy coin. I think I've posted about some other designs I dislike before? I tried to look for some posts and couldn't find anything I'd still agree with. Oh, and a probably-unpopular opinion: I really don't like the Fraser design on the quarter. It's just so ugly. They should have gone with Gasparro's Liberty instead. (TIL about the Jovita Idar reverse, planned for August 2023, which looks like a gimmick for the sake of gimmick.) |
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I dislike the small dollar usa coins. I wanted to love them but nope. I actually like them more now than I did in beginning. The SBA replaced my beloved Ike (although I came to like her) and the Presidential dollars had some really bad portrayals, but I appreciate the reverse designs on the Native American and Innovation series. |
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 The reverse design on Mexican Libertads. I don't "hate" it, I just don't care much for it. |
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And yes that is the image and not dragged over the concrete Okay, I can't top that. |
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And yes that is the image and not dragged over the concrete  |
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And yes that is the image and not dragged over the concrete Wow... that's the kind of thing that makes me think, " and there were actual adult people involved with this?" Anyway, here's my entry: The first reverse of the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial cents, with the log cabin. There was probably no way to make that design look nice, but it comes out especially ugly on actual circulated examples. (BTW, is it just me, or do pennies from that particular year tend to tarnish with ugly, uneven blotching instead of turning a nice, consistent brown?) On the other hand, the fourth Bicentennial reverse (Presidency in Washington) is probably my favorite penny design. (BTW, in having some 10,000 pennies come through my hands in the last several years, I've only encountered one of these.) |
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I hate the Dutch designs issued from 1982 until the introduction of the Euro. The smaller coins are OK, but the larger ones like the two-and-a-half guilder look really awful, especially when they have been in circulation for a few years: I like the designs of the Netherlands Antilles during this time period much better. Quote:
2009 Finland 20 Euro only 3,500....thankfully What is this design even supposed to depict? Edited by NumisEd
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What is this design even supposed to depict? Same question here. Numista says "Representation d'une fenętre d'oů s'echappent deux colombes pour apporter la paix" (in French? Why in French?) translated as "Representation of a window from which two doves escape to bring peace." I get that part. The reverse looks like a map of the earth after the meteor apocalypse. |
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What is this design even supposed to depict? Same question here. Numista says "Representation d'une fenętre d'oů s'echappent deux colombes pour apporter la paix" (in French? Why in French?) translated as "Representation of a window from which two doves escape to bring peace." I get that part. The reverse looks like a map of the earth after the meteor apocalypse. The collector coin "Peace and Security" was the first in a new series, "Ethical Collector Coins". The coin was the first Finnish collector coin in silver with a face value of 20 euro. Coins in this series were issued in commemoration of topical events or phenomena. Representation of a window from which two doves escape to bring peace..Depicts peace doves with colourful twigs flying from a shooting hole, the country name in Finnish and Swedish below, the value on the right, and the logo of the Mint of Finland (cornucopia) on the left of the obverse.  The coin was designed by sculptor Tapio Kettunen. "In my work, the pigeons bringing the peace message fly from the attackers' porthole to the defenders' side - sent by the attackers. Threat and hope are the main themes of the work. I hope these arouse ideas and provide inspiration for different and broader interpretations, than those connected with war and threats thereof", describes Kettunen. Martti Ahtisaari, the tenth president of Finland (1994-2000), and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has signed the certificate of authenticity that includes a quote with the most important message of his speech at the Oslo Nobel Peace Prize ceremony: "Peace is a matter of will". The certificate it comes with shows 4 languages of Peace and Security.  The reverse looks like a map of the earth after the meteor apocalypse.  |
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Of course there will be peace after a meteor wiped out humanity, provided doves survive the apocalypse. Either way, it will be nice and quite on earth.  |
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