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If St. Gaudens were looking for a model today...

291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,390 ✭✭✭✭✭
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who would he select? (This is a serious question.)

My choice: Katherine McPhee (This is a serious answer.)
All glory is fleeting.
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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,191 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Out of the current crop of young Hollywood Starlets, I would vote for Jessica Alba and Charlize Theron.
  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jennifer Lopez

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,390 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Out of the current crop of young Hollywood Starlets, I would vote for Jessica Alba and Charlize Theron. >>



    Wrong body type for early 20th century models.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • rainbowroosierainbowroosie Posts: 4,874 ✭✭✭✭
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yikes! 291fifth has McPhee-ver. A model for a coin would not and should not be chosen from the pool of pop culture icons.
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,390 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yikes! 291fifth has McPhee-ver. A model for a coin would not and should not be chosen from the pool of pop culture icons. >>



    We have to stick to well-knowns even though St. Gaudens never would have. Think body-type. I have to do this when selecting models for my photography.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I bet you could find a Victoria's Secret model to fit the bill.
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I bet you could find a Victoria's Secret model to fit the bill.

    I will do some research tonight and get back to you on your idea. image
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  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭✭
    I'd give my vote for Lynda Carter.



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    If not her, then perhaps Rita Hayworth.............this is the picture from the poster in the movie The Shawshank Redemption.

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  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305
    I vote for Angelina Jolie...great greek like features....It would be great.

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    should age well and hold its own

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  • crispycrispy Posts: 792 ✭✭✭





    << <i>Wrong body type for early 20th century models. >>



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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No question about it, Scarlet Johansen.

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  • ABC123ABC123 Posts: 2,627
    Jenna Jamison---they could also revert to Roman Numerals XXX
  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,235 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OPRAH.....serious answer.
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  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,474 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Isabella Rosellini. Beauty, charisma, modesty.

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  • frankieboywonderfrankieboywonder Posts: 318
    Rosie O'Donnell...................would represent very well the obese country we have become.
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  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146 ✭
    He wouldn't have liked any of the thin, starving women of today. Look at Cezanne, Renoir, Latrec and Gauguin's paintings at the turn of the 20th Century. They all liked women with some meat on them.
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  • pharmerpharmer Posts: 8,355 ✭
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  • rmossrmoss Posts: 644

    Edited to add:
    No disrespect meant toward this thread, just injecting a little humor.



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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Laetitia Casta, if she doesn't need to be American.

    Otherwise, some of the options listed above.
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  • bosoxbosox Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I second Laetitia.
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  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    A classic beauty!

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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Scarlett Johanson is a great choice!! image
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  • CoindexterCoindexter Posts: 1,074
    If you're going to go the Hollywood starlet route I have to nominate Zooey Deschanel.

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    But on a serious note, when this subject comes up (this being the third time I recall since joining) I always nominate the United Sates' finest ever ambassador of class: Audrey Hepburn. Plus, she was a knockout by anyone's standards.

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  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,315 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am with solid. I have been a Laetitia Casta fan for a LONG time. She is French but hey....French coinage is about the only one that can compare artistic wise to American IMO.

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,280 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>He wouldn't have liked any of the thin, starving women of today. Look at Cezanne, Renoir, Latrec and Gauguin's paintings at the turn of the 20th Century. They all liked women with some meat on them. >>



    I agree. Anorexia need not apply.



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  • 100proof1957100proof1957 Posts: 6,231 ✭
    Kirstie Ally is still pretty hot !
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  • WhitbyWhitby Posts: 1,341
    Isabella Rossillini (yes I know the spelling is off)
  • partagaspartagas Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭
    Definelty Scarlett Johanson!!!!!
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,390 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The only two candidates suggested so far that meet my own criteria are Katherine McPhee and Scarlett Johansson. Both have body types that St. Gaudens would have liked for the depiction of "Liberty" on the Double Eagle. St. Gaudens would not have selected any of the thin body type models that are so popular today.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • 1956Half1956Half Posts: 77
    I cannot believe many of the skanky suggestions put forth so far. Angelina Jolie???? BARF!!!! Please schedule an eye exam asap.
    I nominate Laurie Dhue of Fox News..... Yum!

  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭
    Mrs. Longacre.

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  • crispycrispy Posts: 792 ✭✭✭


    I merely picked two women with the "hourglass figure" which was in vogue in the past.

    You want stunning try Catherine Zeta-Jones.




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  • claychaserclaychaser Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭✭
    A serious reply!


    Let's see if I got the link right:

    The obvious choice! Link is "G" rated-
    How about her?


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  • zennyzenny Posts: 1,547 ✭✭


    << <i>
    You want stunning try Catherine Zeta-Jones. >>





    bingo!
  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305


    << <i>Laurie Dhue >>




    LOL....Got legs of a sumo wrestler....thick. Angelina will do fine for me.

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,390 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A serious reply!


    Let's see if I got the link right:

    The obvious choice! Link is "G" rated-
    How about her? >>



    No. Just not right for St. Gaudens. Arms are too thin.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,500 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The truth is that he wouldn't get to select. There would be many committees formed to address the topic and no doubt some subcommittees would be needed to ensure the chosen person(s) represented a cross-cultural and possibly unisex version of an American. We'd end up with a composite of everyone. It would suck, of course.
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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,158 ✭✭✭✭✭
    St. Gaudens wouldn't be allowed to design coins for the US today.
    He would never pass a drug test as he was a morphine addict.
    He designed his famous $20 coin while high.
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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The truth is that he wouldn't get to select. There would be many committees formed to address the topic and no doubt some subcommittees would be needed to ensure the chosen person(s) represented a cross-cultural and possibly unisex version of an American. We'd end up with a composite of everyone. It would suck, of course. >>

    Sad, very sad...but very true.
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,019 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The truth is that he wouldn't get to select. There would be many committees formed to address the topic and no doubt some subcommittees would be needed to ensure the chosen person(s) represented a cross-cultural and possibly unisex version of an American. We'd end up with a composite of everyone. It would suck, of course. >>


    Yeah, it would probably look about as good as a love child of Helen Thomas and Ernest Borgnine.
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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,191 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On second thought how about:

    1. Ginger or Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island; or

    2. Emma Peel of The Avengers; or

    3. Jeannie of I dream of Jeannie; or

    4. Any of the three sisters in Petticoat Junction; or

    5. Julie Andrews from the Sound Of Music; or

    6. Rita Hayworth; or

    7. Betty Grable; or

    8. Any of the Andrews Sisters; or

    9. Sophia Loren; or

    10 Audrey Hepburn; or

    11. Daphne Jong Jongs (an Olympic diver from Sweden in the 1984 Olympics who stood about 5'11" tall who would give Helen of Troy and Athena a run for their money in the beauty department).
  • uofa1285uofa1285 Posts: 2,252 ✭✭


    << <i>Jenna Jamison---they could also revert to Roman Numerals XXX >>



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    << <i>Rosie O'Donnell...................would represent very well the obese country we have become. >>



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  • DHeathDHeath Posts: 8,472 ✭✭✭
    Jennifer Connelly would be a good choice, IMO.
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,500 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Daphne Jong Jongs (an Olympic diver from Sweden in the 1984 Olympics who stood about 5'11" tall who would give Helen of Troy and Athena a run for their money in the beauty department). >>


    OK, if we are reliving female athlete fantasies from years gone by, how about Denise Biellmann, the Swiss skater who made "Biellmann spins" famous when she won the 1981 ladies' world championships.
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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,390 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Daphne Jong Jongs (an Olympic diver from Sweden in the 1984 Olympics who stood about 5'11" tall who would give Helen of Troy and Athena a run for their money in the beauty department). >>


    OK, if we are reliving female athlete fantasies from years gone by, how about Denise Biellmann, the Swiss skater who made "Biellmann spins" famous when she won the 1981 ladies' world championships. >>



    These aren't supposed to be from years ago! They are supposed to be current women...as in 2006.
    All glory is fleeting.

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