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It's time for the vote on St. Gaudens model!

291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,389 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The finalists are:

Katherine McPhee

Scarlett Johansson

The question: If Augustus St.Gaudens were designing the Double Eagle today, which of these women would he select as his model?
All glory is fleeting.

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  • DickyBetzDickyBetz Posts: 3,825
    SJ
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,277 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>SJ >>

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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,052 ✭✭✭
    Scarlett

    TC71


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  • AValdeAValde Posts: 299 ✭

    Madeline Albright.
  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So where are the pics?

    Personally I would pick this French Victoria Secret supermodel. That's right- French. In 1999 she was voted to become the new face of Marianne by France’s mayors and then
    shortly afterwards she was to move from France because of taxes & other issues she didn't like. She basically told the government over there to stuff it. I like that. That's Liberty.

    Latitia Casta

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  • holadudeholadude Posts: 316 ✭
    DOn't know who McPhee is, so I defaulted to Johansen.
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SJ no question.
  • xphobexphobe Posts: 605
    Rigged election! The only person who even mentioned McPhee is the OP (oops - and me now). It's Good To Be The King, eh? Looking back at the thread, Laeticia Casta got way more comments.

    McPhee's Disney personality and pageant smile nauseated me. If you are looking for a full-figured female, don't forget Mandisa. She was at least real, and could sing circles around Cat in her sleep.

    I voted for Scarlet, but is she even American? I think that should be a pre-requisite for an American coin model. In that case, Linda Carter would be my choice.
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,389 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Rigged election! The only person who even mentioned McPhee is the OP (oops - and me now). It's Good To Be The King, eh? Looking back at the thread, Laeticia Casta got way more comments.

    McPhee's Disney personality and pageant smile nauseated me. If you are looking for a full-figured female, don't forget Mandisa. She was at least real, and could sing circles around Cat in her sleep.

    I voted for Scarlet, but is she even American? I think that should be a pre-requisite for an American coin model. In that case, Linda Carter would be my choice. >>



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  • 13PacesEast13PacesEast Posts: 712 ✭
    neither
    know what you don't know.

    hi, i'm tom.

    i do not doctor coins like some who post in here.

  • zeus135zeus135 Posts: 1,043 ✭
    Janet Reno.

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  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305
    For a fair vote put ALL the names that were refered. Just to be fair.
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  • SciotoScioto Posts: 955 ✭
    Never heard of either of them.
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  • flaminioflaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
    Not a St Gaudens, but if they ever want to start a new line of Bust coinage, I got just the model:

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  • xphobexphobe Posts: 605


    << <i>if they ever want to start a new line of Bust coinage, I got just the model: >>



    Too high relief - both obverse and reverse. Wouldn't stack properly.
  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    I want Tassa to model for our Gold Coins.image


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  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    Never heard of either one. Do you have pictures or drawings of those two?

    Tom
    Tom

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,389 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Never heard of either one. Do you have pictures or drawings of those two?

    Tom >>



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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Put one on the heads side and the other on the tails side. Notice I didn't say obverse and reverse?imageimage



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  • xphobexphobe Posts: 605
    Here is the most StGaudens-like pic of Scarlett I could find. Nice pose, but the expression isn't dignified enough. And I have to admit she is a little on the anorexic side, by early 20th century standards.

    I think I want to change my vote to McPhee. She may have a bit too much junk in the trunk but she does have "the look".
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    While everyone is voting, here is a photo of the final Very High Relief obverse of the Saint-Gaudens double eagle (March 1907). This was eventually used to make the high relief hubs. The original model was Hettie Anderson, although the figure is a composite. Does the original design resemble any of the candidate modern models? (Photo courtesy Smithsonian Peter A. Juley & Son Photo Collection. Information from "Renaissance of American Coinage 1905-1908.")
  • fcfc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭
    strange that i do not even know who these people are.

    but then i do not own a TV :-P

    couch potatoes.

    i also like to add, a sexy body, does not a woman make.
    i am surprised this forum just bases it on looks.
  • crispycrispy Posts: 792 ✭✭✭


    << <i>strange that i do not even know who these people are.

    but then i do not own a TV :-P

    couch potatoes.

    i also like to add, a sexy body, does not a woman make.
    i am surprised this forum just bases it on looks. >>





    Soooo, OK your vote is for Reno or Albright?



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  • FletcherFletcher Posts: 3,294 ✭
    Yes, I vote for Nanny McPhee.

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