Whats the ugliest coin?

kamehameha00

Churchill Crown for Darkside
*shiver* dollar for Liteside

Placid

ROOSEVELT DIME.

JNADAD

Ike Dollar
Franklin Half
Roosevelt Dime
SBA Dollar

to start!

kamehameha00

<< <i>ROOSEVELT DIME. >>




over the *shiver* dollar?!

Waldo

Susan B Anthony dollar followed closely by the Ike dollar

razorface1027

The Lincoln cent

hjohn74

Franklin, without a doubt.

airplanenut

SBA dollar...

The ike is cool when worn to PO-01... as Braddick... he own's a PO-01 lightbulb-head

SeattleSlammer

IKE! FUGLY!

Newmismatist

SBA Dollar - Ugly in all grades and conditions (Proof, MS & circ)
Ike Dollar (MS & circ)
Franklin Half (Circ)

Edited to add: Eunice Shriver Comm - Ugly no matter what

JohnZ

I was going to post my collection of Ikes one day, but I can see now that that would qualify as a faux pas.

Barry

SBA
Ike

ms70

SBA, Ike, Roosevelt, Jefferson.

You'd have thought that with the enormous area on the Ike that they would have been a little more creative.

Edited to add Jefferson.

ms70

***I see dead people everywhere!***

There's an obvious pattern here. All mid to late 20th Century coins w/dead people seem to be the choice.

coppercoins

From worst to no-so-worst.

1. SBA
2. Ike
3. Franklin Half
4. Jeff. Nickel
5. Kennedy Half
6. Lincoln Memorial cent
7. Roosevelt Dime
8. Washington Quarter
9. Morgan Dollar
10. Barber coinage.

top 10 from the best down:

1. SLQ (type I preferred)
2. Small Indian gold ($2.5, $5)
3. St. G $20 (no motto preferred, roman #s)
4. Mercury Dime
5. Walking Liberty 50c (pattern preferred)
6. $10 indian (no motto)
7. Pan-Pac 50c
8. Pan-Pac $50 (either)
9. Buffalo Nickel
10. Texas Half

Notice that my specialty, Lincoln cents, do not bode well for artistic merit. I collect them for the challenge, not their beauty.

CoinHunter2003

The "Ike" dollar. Bland with no polish and even in proof form they're plain.


Alex
(aka Morgan Lover)

Typetone

Guess what! I think Liberty gold is ugly. SBAs and IKEs at least have a neat reverse, regular and bicentennial (IKEs). Nothing wrong with Franklins, especially cameo proofs. I don't care much for Washingtons, especially clads when they changed the strike. Same for Kennedy clads when they changed the strike. Other than that I like most of our designs. Jeffs and Lincolns grow on you.

Greg

Skipper53

Susan B Anthony.
Reminds me of my hideous first grade teacher.

coltgus

Bridgeport commem, the reverse is the ugliest thing I've ever seen.

ah

Any toned coin.

Al

foodude

Lucy, help, they're picking on the Franklins again.

fcloud

2004 Wisconsin Quarter!

Top of the list!

MJPHELAN

The SBA. My eight year old son calls it the Susan B. Ugly dollar.

Shamika

I thought we had agreed that the Shriver Commemorative was the fugliest?!

Mrpawn

1987 Constituion Bicentennial Dollar

1993 Thomas Jefferson 250th Anniversary Dollar

Both are pretty bad

originalisbest

Undoubtably the disgustingly designed Shriver dollar. Somebody phoned that one in, and the connection was NOT a good one.

As for the reverse of the Bridgeport half; it actually has outstanding artistic merit - but may be a little beyond the grasp of the average person's sensibilities. Oh well, it's that kind of thing that makes dilettantes like me take pride.

clw54

All coins are beautiful.

lordmarcovan

clw54

Okay, I was wrong.

Mrpawn

Yeah. lord marcovan. but what does the reverse look like - need to evaluate both sides before it can be declared totally ugly



I could probably be kicked out of our local coin club if I brought that one in for display

Dave99B

Ike dollar - hands down!


Dave

lordmarcovan

The obverse just has Queen Elizabeth, when she was still young and pretty (at least in her portraiture on coins). So that kind of balances out the "God Of Fertility".

I still defy anyone to come up with something uglier than a fierce, woodgrainy-lookin', potbellied guy with a head like something out of the Alien films, and his "naughty bits" swingin' in the wind, as one British dealer put it.

Mrpawn

The "other" side is a definate classic then.

I am not so sure that having a classic side and an ugly side is worse than some of the before mentioned US modern commemoratives. Many of the commemoratives have an ugly side and an OK or good side. A few are just downright ugly and the only good side is the reeding on the edge

ms70

<< <i>Guess what! I think Liberty gold is ugly. Greg >>



*GASP* HOW DARE YOU!

dollardude

Ugliest (#1 is worst):

1. SBA Dollar
2. Buffalo Nickel
3. Indian Head Gold Eagle and Half Eagle
4. Jefferson Nickel
5. Roosevelt Dime
6. Franklin Half
7. Modern Gold (due to ugly reverse only)
8. Indian Penny
9. Modern Platinum
10. Type I Gold Dollar

Nicest (#1 is best):
1. St. Gaudens $20 Gold
2. Morgan Silver Dollar
3. Walking Liberty Half
4. Flying Eagle Cent
5. Mercury Dime
6. Shield Nickel
7. Draped Bust Silver Dollar
8. Draped Bust Half
9. Flowing Hair Cent
10. Modern $1 Silver Eagle

JRocco

SBA, Ike and Roosevelt, but all are still years ahead of that fertility thingy......

numonebuyer

Susan B. Anthony Dollar.

Numonebuyer

supercoin

“I know some people have said that my Eisenhower head is too simple, but, what the heck, the man was plain – a simple, direct man – and that’s why people liked him. He was a simple person, and I kept it that way. I believe if I had done it over, I wouldn’t have done it any different.”

-- Frank Gasparro


And the reverse is among the best in US coinage, commemorating what is arguably mankind's most impressive achievement to date. NASA had its roots in the Eisenhower administration, by the way.

So there. I hope none of you Ike detractors collect those Exorcist-head Liberty coins.

fishcooker

Worst are circulated SAC dollars toned the typical turd-brown. Second are a blackish toned Franklins.

But, whoa, that Shriver one is tough to take!

EvilMCT

Anything with a dead president.

Ken