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I HATE SPAGHETTI HAIR

lsicalsica Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭✭
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/RANT ON

I HATE SPAGHETTI HAIR! LOOK AT YOUR MODERN PROOF SETS. FLAT-AS-A-BOARD RELIEF WITH THE EFFECT OF HAIR DONE BY AN ETCHING THAT LOOKS LIKE WAS DONE BY A DRUNK 1930'S HOBO (i mean the crappy jobs you often see, not the quality work that's become so collectable). STUFF LOOKS LIKE ITS FROM SOME POST-WAR DEBASED CURRENCY WHERE YOU'D HAVE TO HAVE VALUES OF 3 BILLION WHATEVERS ON THEM TO BUY A STICK OF GUM!!!

/RANT OFF
Philately will get you nowhere....

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    AN ETCHING THAT LOOKS LIKE WAS DONE BY A DRUNK 1930'S HOBO





    HEY !!! I resemble that remark !! imageimage
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I completely agree. The mint ruined the obverse designs beginning in the early 1990's.

    Russ, NCNE
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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A gentle reminder... please don't type in all caps; besides being difficult to read it also conveys the message that you are shouting.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • lsicalsica Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>it also conveys the message that you are shouting >>



    I was image
    Philately will get you nowhere....
  • ERER Posts: 7,345 ✭


    << <i>A gentle reminder... please don't type in all caps; besides being difficult to read it also conveys the message that you are shouting. >>



    It's ok, he was RANTING.image
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK... sorry.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    Future Coin Designer?
    image
  • WhizzardWhizzard Posts: 955
    The hair on ancient coins was far superior.
    image
    What do you think, Mr. Bigglesworth?
    image
  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Outside of the yelling, I have to agree with you- ultra modern coins look like arcade tokens....
    My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable !
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,702 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As bad as the spaghetti hair is most people will think a 1995 quarter is acceptable
    and a 1996 is not. The difference between these is subtle but has nothing to do with
    the design of the hair but is rather that the convexity has been reversed. Where be-
    fore the coin was convex toward the obverse, since '96 it is convex toward the reverse.


    I have a hunch that future collectors won't see either of these changes as being so mon-
    umental and won't even see the spaghetti hair as so awful. Let's face it; these designs
    aren't the best that ever graced a coin and it's all a matter of taste anyway. It wouldn't
    be surprising if these later issues retain a lot more hair detail down to low grade. The old
    Washington's have an unattractive obverse as they wear and these new ones probably
    won't be as bad. Perhaps this is why it was changed.
    Tempus fugit.
  • robertprrobertpr Posts: 6,862 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Perhaps this is why it was changed. >>



    Or, perhaps (probably) it was changed to reduce the amount of pressure required to strike the coins, thus extending die life and allowing for greater speed and efficiency in the presses.

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