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Nebraska quarter design vote...update!

There was an article in our paper tonight listing the 4 designs that have gotten the most votes. Link to the article

Out of all the choices, most are pretty bad, I guess 6 isn't too bad. Doesn't really tell what Nebraska today is about. But i guess they can't do a design about football.
the voting is going on until wednesday. Nebraska Quarter Vote
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  • fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭

    I admit I CHEATED...... but I could *not* resist the temptation to vote for the quarter design that has a B-52 on it!

    If that one wins, the Reagan dollar will have to have an aircraft carrier on the reverse, instead of a '52....




  • khaysekhayse Posts: 1,336
    > Two or three warned of potentially embarrassing missteps. For example, the cornstalks featured in several designs feature three ears of corn. A
    > writer warned that a cornstalk rarely has more than one ear.
    >
    > "When city artists draw farm products, they only draw what looks good, but not always right," that e-mail said.
    Ummmmm, as opposed to all the country artists? I thought all they did was whitlin' and banjo playin' in the country.
    And the rest of the nation doesn't care if the corn is depicted accurately.

    >At least two e-mails pointed out that the covered wagon depicted on two designs appears to be headed east, with a setting sun in the background.
    Sorry I missed the explanation, written on the coin, that that was a setting sun.

    > Others debated whether the coin could or should be used to heal the great east-west rift in Nebraska.
    That must be the great east-west rift I read about in the news all the time. image

    >But i guess they can't do a design about football.
    I'm with you. How about a design showing the option. image

    -KHayse
    ps Sorry, I'm in a smart alecky mood.
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I find none of them particularly striking. I voted for #21, I think it would look great as a DCAM proof.
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536
    > Two or three warned of potentially embarrassing missteps. For example, the cornstalks featured in several designs feature three ears of corn. A
    > writer warned that a cornstalk rarely has more than one ear.
    >
    > "When city artists draw farm products, they only draw what looks good, but not always right," that e-mail said.

    Interesting, here in Indiana, where we also grow a lot of corn, most of our corn has two ears per stalk.

    I always see coins like maps, the right side is east and the left is west So I see the wagon heading west with a rising sun. (I always see the WL half as striding into a setting sun.)
  • fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭

    Indiana corn must be smarter than Nebraska corn.

  • CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,030 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Indiana corn must be smarter than Nebraska corn. >>




    Hey now! don't forget the "N" on Nebraska's football helmets stands for nowledge. image
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