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Design only.... Seated Dollar or Trade Dollar?
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Which do you consider a better design? The Seated Dollar or the Trade Dollar?
Design only.... Seated Dollar or Trade Dollar?
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Neither. Both are awful.
You have to let it grow on you. Seated halves present the design better IMO, than do the dollars. It is the extra drapery on the Dollars that fatten it out. Liberty is a bit more slender on the halves.
Liberty sitting with trade goods at the shoreline - looking to the East and extending an olive branch. Along with the second best eagle on any 19th century coinage. What’s not to like?
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There's just something about the trade dollar that gets my attention. Peace Roy
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I understand. Yet, to me both obverse designs are morbidly derivative of Britannia, and constricted by the small size of coins. Further, the so-called Liberty cap was something Roman citizens gave to freed slaves. As Tom Jefferson noted, Liberty represents the broadest forms of personal freedom and certainly not that of manumission.
@RogerB said:
I understand. Yet, to me both obverse designs are morbidly derivative of Britannia, and constricted by the small size of coins. Further, the so-called Liberty cap was something Roman citizens gave to freed slaves. As Tom Jefferson noted, Liberty represents the broadest forms of personal freedom and certainly not that of manumission.
And yet, some "morbidly derivative" designs seem to remain extremely popular...
Liberty lazing around on a hay bale beckoning the East to make all our stuff.
I would certainly agree that the Seated Liberty design is little more than a Britannia knock-off, and a very weak one to boot. The Walking Liberty is a knock-off of Oscar Roty's French Marianne, but a pretty good effort.
Is this in jest or a serious post? I think the designs are attractive, but maybe I've become jaded since the U.S. Mint has pretty much only produced garbage designs (e.g. dead heads) during my life time.
I prefer the Trade Dollar... The design is just more appealing... much like art, opinions differ. Cheers, RickO
The Trade Dollar, mainly because it is different. The Seated design was used for so long and on so many coins that it became trite.