2000 CONCEPT Flowing Liberty Liberty dollar

relayer

Pretty cool, not $150 worth of cool, but still pretty cool

MWallace

You can read all about these pieces on my website at The Gallery Mint's "One Concept" Dollars

Mike
SmallDollars.com

Russ

And yet they picked the Sac.

Russ, NCNE

lordmarcovan

The Sac is a more understandable choice, politically, and a nice design.

That concept above is fantastic too, however. I like it!!

DominusDeus

That blows away any coin design we've had in the last, oh, 150 years??!

Why the HELL didn't they use that design?!

mgoodm3

Nice , but I think the obv is a bit too frilly.

billboat

I like it--it brings back the Liberty design that we have missed for too long!!

My edit--the reverse evokes memories of our earliest coinage.

Weiss

Hey, isn't that the Jefferson dollar obverse?

richbeat

I like it, and I'd rank it right up there alongside Frank Gasparro's original Liberty design for the dollar coin (SBA was chosen instead).

buffnut

What a beautiful coin! I would have loved to see this one go into production. The new designs (IMO) lack the classic regal qualities of the early US coinage. With the statehood program and the new nickels, it just seems that the designs have gone more of the route of novelty. On the plus side, the new programs have sparked renewed interest in US coinage that has been suffering in recent years. Even if it doesn't bring more traffic and economy to the coin shows, there are still many people who collect the newer designs out of pocket change. This at least brings an increased awareness to the hobby, which is always healthy.

Conder101

One interestig thing about those concept dollars is that if you examine them closely you will find that the dies were to a large extent hand engraved. That is a technique that most US collectors have not really seen. Other than on the hair of the 1793 coinages and some minor hand refinishing of details on early coins through about 1800 hand engaving is seldom seen on US coins. And nothing is engraved as extensively as these dies were.

wingedliberty

Its a tremendous design. I love it. ,but the ACLU will never allow it to be selected. More bland and politically correct designs will win out. Liberty portrayed with female iconography and Greco-Roman and Napoleonic concepts of Liberty is something that the ACLU and the politically correct brain cannot grasp due to their total ignorance of history. They smoked too much pot at Berkley.
I love this design. It should have been selected, but it will never happen.

ms70

I love it!

sumnom

Winged L,

Please wipe the spittle off your computer screen.

DominusDeus

I honestly wish I had $150. I'd snatch one of thoes up right now.