Poll for Favorite DESIGN ????
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Poll for favorite DESIGN ???/
Not considering OTHER types. Just overall design please. Irrespective of grade OR date and mint.
Just between these two types.
TEN INDIAN
$20 Saint Gaudens
Thanks, folks.
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Poll for Favorite DESIGN ????
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Saint-Gaudens
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If I had to pick a design of all time, it would need to be this one:
TomB has an example that is simply mesmerizing.
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Both are beautiful, it’s a close call, but I like the $10 Indian slightly better.
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I'm a fan of the Connecticut, that Charter Oak is fantastic. But I always thought the eagle was a little blah. I wish it was combined with the Albany beaver instead. How's that for heads vs tails!
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I vote for the eagle simply because the 1/4 and 1/2 eagles are my personal all-time favorite U.S. design. While the ten dollar shares the same reverse, the indian head of the 2 1/2 and five dollar are more appealing. Not to mention both are incuse which makes them quite unique. My opinion.
Which of the two pictured do you like?
The ten dollar eagle.
I like the St Gaudens for the Liberty and the Eagle. It should be representative of our most treasured coins. JMO
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The Saint-Gaudens $20.
I chose the eagle for it's open fields whereas the double eagle's rays clutter up the coin, IMO.
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I chose the Eagle. $20 is a great design but it is everywhere. Kinda like that great classic song that you are sick of hearing.
I like the $20, but design-wise it's just too cluttered. Rays on the front, rays on the back. The eagle's wings look unnatural. The $10 is a bit busy as well with that headdress that takes up half the obverse, but at least it has some open fields to provide balance.
Indian for me
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I’ll take the Saint!
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Although this is awfully close!
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The Saint Gaudens for me.
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The Indian $10 here as well
The $10 for me too.
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I’ll take the Saint.
I know it’s sacrilege, but I’ve never like the $10 indian much. It’s my least favorite of all the indians on US coinage.
To be honest, I've never been a huge fan of St Gaudens designs.
This is far better.
I went with the Saint, although Im kind of numbed by the over-exposure of the design. So common and copied by the mint. I would have gone for the Pratt design had it been an
option.
I broke the tie
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$10 Indian.
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They are both great designs produced by a great sculpture, but the double eagle gets the nod from me. The MCMVII High Relief is particularly nice.
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That, on an eagle or double eagle size would be perfect.
Close call, but the Saint wins. Liberty looks like she is walking towards my house for a visit 😀
It's all good in any case (or slab)
And in my favorite holder.
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I like the $10 ones better if/when they look like this with a little bit of toning/skin, but usually I like the $20 Saints more
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Saw this for the first time last night. An amalgamation of the two. This Obverse looks better to me than the normal Saint obverse with the reverse similar to the $10 Indian. This is the way Augustus Saint Gaudens had originally intended it to be. VERY LOW mintage, as well. Only 750 in 2018.
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I really don't like saints. I prefer the earlier liberty head to either of these two designs.
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Limiting the picks to what was in the original post, I will go with the Saint. If it is any US coin, I would likely select a Commem- just not sure which one.
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Two of my favorite designs but I give the Saint the edge.
I've got two of my favorite types.
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High relief toss up......
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I voted for the $10 Indian.
Neither in my top ten but I would choose the $10 Indian.
I love the Connecticut design, by the way, and unlike lermish, love the art deco eagle.
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Also my fave bird depiction. So Ayn Randish!
What? No Barber Quarter option?
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i own both, but the $10 indian i like better, i got several of my double eagles graded with the special green label years ago
I've always liked classic designs, so I have to go with the $10.
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The other element is that the bullion weight of the 20 can reduce the number of folks who can afford them.
Which.... has nothing to do with the design but is worth considering.