Vote for the Nebraska state quarter design

notlogical

They are voting on the design for the Nebraska quarter. There are 25 designs to choose from. Most of them are not very good, I don't think. too many picures and stuff. I think #1 or #6 are the best. The website says that they only want people from Nebraska to vote but I wondered what everyone here thinks of the designs. Which one do you like?


Nebraska State Quarter Design Vote

INXS

Personally I like 6 & 11. However I wouldnt hold my breath on seeing anything close to these come from the mint. I just purchased a Missouri and Delaware SQ from the National Collectors Mint while not legal tender they are much closer to the original siubmissions which the US Mint refused as being to difficult to produce. Plus they have more eye appeal than the mint released design. Just my opinion.

Inxs

DominusDeus

I voted 11.

Gonfunko

I like #8 - but the mint'll probably make it look like something you'd step in at a park.

CoinHusker

What??!! No designs with a football?

But seriously, I like #6, 8, 1 or maybe even 16.

For those who aren't "up" on Nebraska imagery:

The Sower on designs 1, 9 & 23 is the sculpture atop the State Capitol building in Lincoln.

Speaking of that, designs 5 15, & 21 feature the Nebraska State capitol building. Nebraska has the only unicameral form of government (one house legislature) in the country. State law says that "the people" are supposed to be the second house, but you know how that goes.

Design #2 with buffalo Bill Cody is a reference to North Platte, NE where Buffalo Bill built his retirement home "Scouts Rest Ranch".

The designs that have "Chimney Rock" on them (#'s 4,5,6,7, 8, 10,13,14,17,18 & 19) is referring to a famous landmark in western Nebraska on the many frontier trails that passed through Nebraska on the way west.

Designs 10 & 14 show a Sand Hills crane. These cranes get their name from the Sand Hills region in Nebraska, and they make a annual migratory stop near Kearney, NE each spring. (If you like birds in general or cranes in particular it's a must see.)

Designs 12 & 13 feature the state bird, Meadowlark, and the state flower, Goldenrod, repsectively.


Well, enough of the Nebraska history lesson. Sorry to bore you but thought you may be interested in what some of the symbols mean.

ziggy29

<< <i>What??!! No designs with a football? >>

That was my thought, too, though in reality I know they're not going to use the coin to celebrate football. But still, what's one of the biggest things to many Nebraskans? What do most "outsiders" think of first when they think of Nebraska? I'd guess "Husker football" on both counts.

airplanenut

Wow. IMO, those designs just plain suck. For those that like #11, I highly doubt it could look any bit good when reduced to the size of a quarter, made monotone, and given such low relief.

#12 is the only I see that looks any bit decent... at least it's not super busy or full of unrelated objects. Heck, I don't even like the one with the plane!

ddbird

#6 is the best...we need to bring back the oxen!

lordmarcovan

I voted for #6.

IrishMike

#12

CoinHusker

<< <i>I voted for #6. >>



That's one of my favorites too, but If that is a setting sun in the design isn't the wagon headed back east?

TheLiberator

#3 looks like the greim reaper! hahahahahahahaah!

19Lyds

6 is alright but I also like 22.

I think the mint will approve 25 though without the soldiers.

Number 3 looks like it has Skeletor instead of Chief Standing Bear........

notlogical

I kind of like 22 too. It reminds me of a place that looks like it out by my Grandpa's farm.

tporreca

#8

laserart

I don't live in Nebraska but I drove through there once. I liked #6 so much I voted for it twice..

CoinHusker

<< <i>I like #8 - but the mint'll probably make it look like something you'd step in at a park. >>



I like that one too, but I'm biased because it looks like my icon.

Bear

Using the outline of the state, was most....................................unusual and innovative.

I like #6. Im sure given half a chance, the Mint will screw it up and produce another ugly coin.

sumnom

They were all weak. I went for 9, The Sower.

Any design with a state outline should automatically be disqualified.

TonedCoinTrader

Well I like # 5 so..

billboat

I'm sorry but none of these designs are worth coining.

billboat

Sorry but they are all awful!!!!

Edited to add: please ignore the extra post--but I still haven't changed my mind.

sumnom

Billboat, you are so right.

TommyB

i voted for 6, but they will pick #1 because it has the best state outline.

sumnom

TommyB, you are being provocative.

poorguy

Here's a late entry.

sumnom

Insrpired!

Gemini

I voted for #6

CoinHusker

Poorguy, That probably describes the state better than most of the "official" entry's. For some reason, I remember that there was a prohibition on ANY sports designs, including football when the design contest began.

I think they were afraid of opening a can of worms where a design would become a specific team's advertisement BUT Nebraska is a little differnt. Much of the state's identity comes from football.

I was surprised that there weren't any design's with "note worthy people" from Nebraska on them other than Buffalo Bill. Willa Cather, Maria Sandoz, Wiliam Jennings Bryan, John G. Neihardt. Or how about more comtemporary Nebraskan's, Johnny Carson, Marlon Brando, Dorthy Mcguire, Nick Nolte?

Or a picture of a can of spam, a Nebraska product. Or how about a picture of the Kool-aid man since Kool-aid was invented in Hastings, NE. with the slogan, "Nebraska...Oh, YEAH"

Oh, the opportunities missed!

sumnom

A spam cube would have been better than most of the designs here.

CoinHusker

<< <i>A spam cube would have been better than most of the designs here. >>



Well, you can look at it this way. by the time the mint gets done with the design Chimney Rock will look like a spam cube.

notlogical

Thanks! It was fun reading what everybody said.

relayer

It was hard to like any of those designs.

I went with #17


And who the heck is this "The Sower" dude? Is he Johnny Appleseed?