What coin designs turn you off?

tjkillian

What coin designs, on U.S. Federal coinage meant for general circulation in the U.S., turns you off? I really like 19th century coins, but classic head $5 half eagles really don't do it for me. It looks like her head is too small to put a brain in.

Tom

littlewicher

The ones with bald people on them.

dddangerousdan

Anything that starts with susan.

DAN

izzy452

The Washington quarter.

DCAMFranklin

SBA

keets

.....the early issues with that pathetic eagle on the reverse. downright embarrassing no matter how significant the coins are. it just doesn't project strength.

al h.

MrKelso

The SAC Dollar

SethChandler

Most modern coins, esp. commems from the 1980's.

paigowjohnny

1. Sacagacrappa
2. Susie B.
3. Peace dollar
4. Ike dollar
5. Frankie

dpoole

The dead president series (except for the Lincoln Cent).

Sunnywood

Most designs that glorify people, places and politicians, instead of the lofty ideals of Liberty and the Union. Which do you think has the potential to inspire greater artistry in any age: idealized representations of Liberty and the American Eagle (or other such suitable symbols), or profiles of bald old men whose hoary visages (dis)grace our coinage due to the political will of our legislators and Presidents to glorify their predecessors, themselves and their colleagues instead of the country and its ideals.

The obverses of the Ike, Kennedy, SBA, and Roosie are particularly appalling, as is the notion of retaining the same designs on our coinage for endless decades. But then, despite modern technology, the mint and its engravers would shy away from any design requiring great detail, high relief, or classical artistry. Further, the illegal cheap and base metals used today do not permit the beautiful detail of softer gold and silver.

Our coinage is unconstitutional, illegal, intrinsically worthless, and ugly. The last time there was a great artistic revolution was under the wise Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. If only someone today had his appreciate of art and nature !!! We could use another Saint Gaudens. Instead, we get crummy watered down designs lacking in detail or beauty. How many of you know the true outrage of the state quarters .... that the designs submitted by the artists were never used, but were rather "reinterpreted" by the Mint to make the coinage cheap crap that is easy to produce by the billions. What lost opportunities !!!! There are great ideas there, and many wonderful American symbols, but their execution is typically unworthy.

Sunnywood

ClarkOfKent

Frankie-steins

flaminio

What Sunnywood said. Everything in circulation today sucks.

braddick

ALL coins look good in PO01.

LincolnCentMan

I dont like the Sac. I thought the flowing hair design (also second place to a coin the begins with Susan ) would have been a much more astheticly pleasing.... I should add that I do like the rev. of that coin, however. I dont particularly care for the Ike either.

David

maddox

Franklin, there rather boring to look at - Unless there "Clown Frankies"

LucyBop

This whole thread is BANN'DD!

paigowjohnny

Man she's fast....

mercurynut

The SAC is really ugly!

berylcoin

Sunnywood just about said it all. And what he didn't say, the "Hostage Nickel" campaign out of Virginia did.

Beyond that I haven't yet grown to appreciate any of the Classic head designs. They do nothing for me.

BC

Mikey

Coins with ugly people. Why aren't our nation's heroes better looking?

KlectorKid

Morgans. Sorry guys but I dont think she is as great as people say *cough* cough* over rated *cough*

Lakesammman

Barbers and Morgans - makes me nervous when I can't tell the sex.....

mdwoods

I like 1793 Cents, Liberty cap coins, Draped Bust coins, and everything produced since 1900, although the Barber and Liberty Nickels are kinda copies of ancient coinage, in a way. mdwoods

eagle7

Sacs, Susies and Ike's. To me they are all throw up ugly!

Striker

SBA

LucyBop

The honest truth with me is... I love all of our Countrys coins... And I don't think there is a loser in any of them....

MrKelso

<< <i>Morgans. Sorry guys but I dont think she is as great as people say *cough* cough* over rated *cough* >>



Well i never!!! how dare you!!!! BANNED

jom

Moderns:

Ike, Frank, SBA, Washington : Obverses
Frank, Wash, Lincoln Mem: Rev

Classics:

Any and all Barbers (includes the nickel), some of the "classic head" gold (I don't remember exactly what they are called), most early Cents with a liberty head (not the flowing hair one), Peace Dollar.

I happen to like both sides of the Saca but I don't like how the metal tones.

jom

SeattleSlammer

The IKE dollar is one of the ugliest coins ever, period. God it's ugly!

ClarkOfKent

<< <i> The honest truth with me is... I love all of our Countrys coins... And I don't think there is a loser in any of them.... >>

Lucy finally professes her love for the Kennedy...

LucyBop

Hey, I have a Kennedy Proof Registry set....

ClarkOfKent

<< <i>Hey, I have a Kennedy Proof Registry set.... >>

Well, at least you have some taste.

Tootawl

<< <i>Barbers and Morgans - makes me nervous when I can't tell the sex..... >>


I always though that the figure on the Barbers was a dude. It's not?

Bustman

pretty much anything after 1936

ursabear

Me, I think the screaming wigs of our first coins. Mind you, I think they're REALLY KEWL, I'd love to have lots of them, but they all look like they've had the hair-dryer-in-the-bathtub treatment.

Tassa

My Least Favorites:

SBA
Sacs
Ikes
Frankies
Peace Dollar

michael

not all
but

most all state quarters are downright gross and ugly

sincerely michael

joejeweler

Bingo!.......my girl calls it a "Wimpy Eagle" for exactly the reasons you state. I've always thought the eagle in the Flowing hair designs looked bulimic or anorexic! Certainly doesn't portray a vigorus nation of healthy patriots.

It really surprises me this design lasted as long as it did. Should have been a one year type! I wonder if the person approving the designs got ridiculed thruout their run......

Other than the weak eagle the rest of the design is ok. The design i like the least in total is the Liberty head nickel prior to the buffalo design. Just nothing that appeals to me on that one! (closely followed by the 3 cent nickel.)

Joe T.





<< <i>.....the early issues with that pathetic eagle on the reverse. downright embarrassing no matter how significant the coins are. it just doesn't project strength.

al h. >>

ccr

The " run over set " might disturb some.

RegistryCoin

I like Ike, for the biggest turn-off design. Ike heads would make great finials though...

Fairlaneman

Merc Dimes.

Its makes no sense for anyone to collect the ugly, gross, small, thin, hard to see, almost worthless pieces of silver. Most should be melted now.

State Quarters and Susan B's are Really Cool.

Ken

Merc

The shield nickel and the 2 cent piece are not appealing to me. I have a few circulated ones just to have some for a type set. The obverse looks like a tombstone.

dabugler

This might piss some off but the obverse of the peace dollar has always struck me as as strange. Those spikes coming out of her head scare the hell out of me. The reverse of the barbers are progressively disturbing. The half dollar looks like a chicken in need of a good steak. "Feed the starving chicken".

lclugza

Anthony and Ike dollars, and the Shriver dollar. Also any design with Saddam Hussein, the Ayatollah Khomeini, or Karl Marx.

ccr

On a little more serious reply, Sacaqaweas doesn`t do a thing for me. It looks like a Gorilla with a shave.

ARCO

Cleaned Morgan Dollars just turn my stomach. I have some toned coins and some circulated with dirt and nice original toning that make them look so cool. Clean them up and they become hideous monsters.

Tyler

construct

I think the twenty-cent piece is a real loser as far as beauty goes. Liberty has a silly expression on her face, the denticles aren't big enough, and the raised lettering on the shield was just a REALLY bad idea.

The eagle is also odd. It's not cool like the regular seated liberty coinage. They would have done better with the young eagle of the first silver coins.

I still think they're interesting though, even if they do look really foolish.

Baley

I don't care much for copper-nickel clad coins of any design, maybe because they look just like my pocket change except possibly in better condition; they're less objectionable in proof i suppose. Still, I like an allegorical Liberty figure much more than a Presidential profile.

I don't favor the seated liberty design all that much, for the head to toe whole body Liberty I think the standing quarter, WL half, and Saints are a lot prettier.

as for Liberty head/bust types, draped bust are my favorite, followed by capped, then flowing, and probably Barber last, as some mention maybe because of the androgenous look.

I do prefer Morgans and peace dollars about equally, and think the Sac is a big big improvement over the SBA.

I still think the dollar coin will not be successful until it is smaller than a quarter, I think there's room in size between the nickel and quarter for a dollar coin that you can carry more than one or two of in your pocket.

JOHNandBEA

..........Roosey's..............

DAM

The shield nickel and the 2 cent piece are not appealing to me. I have a few circulated ones just to have some for a type set. The obverse looks like a tombstone.

Man, Merc... That hit very close to home.

I prefer 19th Century coinage. Some 20th Century coins too. Nothing much after 1963.

I also side with what Sunnywood said, especially the issue over creative control of the State quarters. What a lousy thing to do to the artists that created the "original" designs. If the Mint knew it was going to "screw up the design", why was it opened up to the public to begin with?