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CONGRATS Nevada: Finally one state did it right!!!

PrethenPrethen Posts: 3,452 ✭✭✭
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Okay, I'm not a big collector of modern crap. But, let me tell you, the Nevada state quarter is by far the most beautiful state quarter produced thus far. Those horses look great and look like they're going to jump out of the coin.

My state quarter already looks like a bust. For some reason, the sculptor wasn't able to bring up the relief and detail enough in the mountains (as compared to the drawing) to make it look anything decent.

I was looking through a couple of rolls of Nevada quarters so I could put a nice one in my state map. I know, I know...what a geek. Hey, it'll be worth a small fortune in 2009...right? image I found a number of gorgeous prooflikes. In fact, most of the coins were barely marked up (Denver mint), if at all. Washington even escaped with very few abrasions. I think the reverse got away with the least problems because, FOR ONCE, the design actually covers most of the coin and it's not flat or most fields that can get all marked up.

I'm sure there will be a few naysayers out there...so go ahead...and say...."Neigh!"

Bruce

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  • claychaserclaychaser Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
    Sure beats the dottering old fart with a cane on the California! The should have used the gold miner design from the 1925 Commem - but that would not make the current political correctness test!


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  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭
    I like the coin, but, they have the sun rising above the Sierra Nevada. The only place that happens in Nevada is at Lake Tahoe, and they sure don't have wild horses up there.
  • KipKip Posts: 852
    I thinkl someone needed to get a map out if thats the Sierra Nevada mountains on that coin.
    I didnt think the SN range was in nevada in order to have a sunrise effect it?
    Kip
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  • bigbadchad777bigbadchad777 Posts: 1,835 ✭
    The Kentucky quarter is the prettiest! image
  • KoinDawgKoinDawg Posts: 890
    I sure like the BISON on the obverse of Kansas in PR70DCAM. AWESOME.
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  • coinnut86coinnut86 Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭
    Well bash away all you like but I still like Delaware's darn close to the best. I'm not sure if I like it just because it's simple, or if it's because it's the first one issued image
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  • michaelmichael Posts: 9,524 ✭✭
    the guy riding the horse is the best of all the state quarters

    mass tree state quarter is a close second and actually for me looks the best in proof!!
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sure beats the dottering old fart with a cane on the California! The should have used the gold miner design from the 1925 Commem - but that would not make the current political correctness test! >>

    Nothing was as lame as my home state of Texas. An outline of a state with a star over Dallas? Real artistic and creative, guys.
  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
    Did you know that over 90% of the land in Nevada is owned by the Government ?
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭


    << <i>mass tree state quarter is a close second and actually for me looks the best in proof!! >>


    ???? I think you mean the Connecticutt quarter with the Charter Oak. Massachusetts has a minuteman and the state map on it. Personally the CT is my favorite, but the DE is also very attractive in it's well executed simplicity.
  • paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
    I really like Maine

    And I am ESPECIALLY proud of my native state, the Great State of Ohio !!! (he said, sarcastically)
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,502 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like Maine and New Hampshire.

    And that has nothing at all to do with the facts that Maine is my birth state and my family lives in New Hampshire.
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  • JcarneyJcarney Posts: 3,154 ✭
    image

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  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I like the coin, but, they have the sun rising above the Sierra Nevada. The only place that happens in Nevada is at Lake Tahoe, and they sure don't have wild horses up there. >>

    There are lots of mountains in Nevada. I didn't think that the mountains on the coin necessarily represented the Sierra Nevada (which is mostly in California, anyways).
  • calgolddivercalgolddiver Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭✭✭
    how do we know that is not a sunset ...
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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    And those flowers are 12 feet tall!

    Maybe there could be an after market for 7-7-7 tatood on the horses. Or maybe a mint variety.
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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭


    << <i>how do we know that is not a sunset ... >>



    Good point.
  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭


    << <i>There are lots of mountains in Nevada. I didn't think that the mountains on the coin necessarily represented the Sierra Nevada (which is mostly in California, anyways). >>




    No, Nevada's flat except for the Sierra Nevada.image

    When the design was first selected, the mountains were represented as the Sierra Nevada by the newspaperss around here. I just spent a small amount of time on the Mint website and on Google, and see that they have gone generic with the descrpition. I'll buy into that.
  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭


    << <i>how do we know that is not a sunset ... >>



    The design is called "Morning in Nevada."
  • MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭
    No, Nevada's flat except for the Sierra Nevada

    isn't there a mountain range on both sides of vegas, and if I recall correctly, the mountain range runs all the way down to and thru Laughlin. I think i crossed over that road oh aboot a hundred times or so..
  • anoldgoatanoldgoat Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭
    There is a beautiful mountain range in the middle of Nevada where the town of Austin is located.
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  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭
    I'm kidding about the mountains, I live in Nevada.image
  • ModernDollarNutModernDollarNut Posts: 886


    << <i>

    << <i>mass tree state quarter is a close second and actually for me looks the best in proof!! >>


    ???? I think you mean the Connecticutt quarter with the Charter Oak. Massachusetts has a minuteman and the state map on it. Personally the CT is my favorite, but the DE is also very attractive in it's well executed simplicity. >>



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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    I don't know, some guy between two tree trunks. Just doesn't really reach out and grab me. I will give it this though, at least it isn't a clip art paste up like FL, PA, GA, or SC.
  • claychaserclaychaser Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
    Nevada could have used the state bird instead - the construction crane!imageimageimage


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  • KipKip Posts: 852


    << <i>

    << <i>There are lots of mountains in Nevada. I didn't think that the mountains on the coin necessarily represented the Sierra Nevada (which is mostly in California, anyways). >>




    No, Nevada's flat except for the Sierra Nevada.image

    When the design was first selected, the mountains were represented as the Sierra Nevada by the newspaperss around here. I just spent a small amount of time on the Mint website and on Google, and see that they have gone generic with the descrpition. I'll buy into that. >>



    According to maps, the Sierra Nevada range does no extend into Nevadaso it must be Humbolt range or something else. Nice coin though
    Kip
    UCSB Electrical Engineering....... USCG and NASA
  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭


    << <i>Nevada could have used the state bird instead - the construction crane!imageimageimage >>



    I'm glad that's the "State Bird" you were talking about.image
  • OldnewbieOldnewbie Posts: 1,425 ✭✭


    << <i>According to maps, the Sierra Nevada range does no extend into Nevadaso it must be Humbolt range or something else. Nice coin though
    Kip >>



    Kip.......

    "The Carson Range forms the eastern boundary of Lake Tahoe and is the only part of the Sierra Nevada that occurs in Nevada."

    Sierra Nevada

    Edit... I forgot the quotation marks.
  • MarineEAS1999MarineEAS1999 Posts: 327
    I just got my first Nevada State Quarter in change today....WOW

    What a nice design...It was well thought out.

    I like its "motion" and the state motto in the banner.

    WELL DONE.
    Ken

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  • GeomanGeoman Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭
    I also like the Buffalo on the reverse of Kansas. Like the horses on Nevada. And like the large star on the reverse of the Texas quarter. That's about all I like out of 30+ so far.

    I do think the less they place on the reverse, the better the coin is. Less clutter is better in this case (ie: The Kansas reverse).
  • fishcookerfishcooker Posts: 3,446 ✭✭

    The Soviet star on the Texas quarter is a bit odd, but none can compare with the LA pelican!

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