Susan B. Anthony dollars ugly?

JoeLewis

Why does everyone seem to think that the design of the SBA dollars is ugly?

I'm asking because I think it's my favorite design on a modern-type coin (especially the reverse.)

I also really like the eleven-sided polygon around the edges of the coin.

MajorDuty

Welcome to the forums.

roadrunner

Susan B. Anthony dollars ugly?

Yes.......I can't explain it. It just is. But the Ike can keep her company. Though rarity has no effect on ugliness.

roadrunner

coinman420

welcome and to answer your question, its because it looks like granny from the beverly hillbillies on the coin. the edges are nice however. JMO

dbldie55

If they would have used the flowing hair design on the obverse, it would have been the best looking clad coin (although that is not saying much)

JoeLewis

Maybe that's just how she looked (I type this without even attemting to google an image of her...how lazy am I?)

I would argue that none of the people (except maybe on the Sac dollars) is remotely attractive.

I just like the clean lines, and detail on the SBA coins. I'm surprised more people don't agree.

P.S. Thanks to everyone for making me feel welcome to this forum!

Dog97

I think Susie B is hot! She’s strong & stern looking, and a strict disciplinarian. My kind of woman!
The coin is ugly because until then all women on coins were sexy with their hair down, not in a severe bun looking like a constipated librarian.

JoeLewis

Ugh! She looks better on the coin!!!

atom48coin

Hoorah for you!!! I also like the Susie B, and consider the tribute to be a "historical moment." I tend to think that some people may not like the coin for more that just aesthetic reasons, though. Afterall, she was one of the pinnacles for women's rights. That aside, however, I do remember when the coin was first introduced, and all the size confusion with the quarter. Too bad they didn't make it a bit bigger.

A

Scioto

Take a look at the pictures.

Best thing I can say is the coin is "life-like" in it's portrayal.

Steve27

"I'm asking because I think it's my favorite design on a modern-type coin (especially the reverse.)"

The reverse is just a scaled-down version of the Ike reverse.

TWQG

I prefer the term 'Carter dollar'.

Now where is my sweater?

cladking

Welcome aboard.

The reverse is one of my favorite US coin designs. The obverse is OK and I like the look especially
on the '79 issue but SBA was not a very attractive woman in her middle years. She was a little hand-
some when younger and matured well but in between there are few pictures where she looks attract-
ive. The first drawings she had been prettied up a little but the family balked and wanted her depict-
ed as she was. They got there way and it's a handsome coin of a less than beautiful woman.

Colorfulcoins

Fugly

OKbustchaser

Not particularly attractive but still head and shoulders above its replacement.

RichieURich

to the Forums, JoeLewis!

shirohniichan

<< <i>If they would have used the flowing hair design on the obverse, it would have been the best looking clad coin (although that is not saying much) >>



Yea, verily.

I was really disappointed when they ditched Liberty for Susie B.

I also remember a cartoon of a guy looking at an SBA with a disappointed look and saying, "Ah, man-- I thought it was going to be a Susan Anton dollar." Does anyone else even remember Susan Anton?

Pentimento

1-- The reverse looks bad in 1/3 size.

2-- The geometric border is a crappy compromise to the proposed shaped coin.

3-- The obverse is crazy! mintmark, cameo broach, and designers initials form a line. 'In god we trust' is stuffed between two stars, and shaped around her chin.

LindeDad

Not a bad coin as long as you only look at the reverse.

Dog97

Maybe if they would ov used a picture of her in her younger days............

Pentimento

Dog97, I like that you started looking at pictures of SBA at 4:20 and spent 2 hours finding the hottest picture of her available online. It was worth the wait!!!!

Leiana

I have said before that the coin looks like Ike in a wig.

I liked Miss Liberty better.

Welcome to the forums!

-Amanda

Dog97

<<<Dog97, I like that you started looking at pictures of SBA at 4:20 and spent 2 hours finding the hottest picture of her available online. It was worth the wait!!!!>>>
It was a very diffcult task.

atom48coin

Yes, I remember Susan Anton.

A

Susan Anton

Nothing historical here.

nankraut

"Does anyone else even remember Susan Anton? "

Yup...I remember her; and she looked a lot different than Susan Anthony!!!!!!

denga

JoeLewis Monday October 09, 2006

Why does everyone seem to think that the design of the SBA dollars is ugly?
I'm asking because I think it's my favorite design on a modern-type coin (especially the reverse.)
I also really like the eleven-sided polygon around the edges of the coin.

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I once spoke with Frank Gasparro, in his office, about the Anthony portrait. He said that he had suggested giving her a pleasant expression, but this had been refused by Mint Director Stella Hackel Sims and the family of Miss Anthony.

Denga

Coxe

If they did an unknown comic dollar would people think it was SBA, the dating years?

garsmith

<<Why does everyone seem to think that the design of the SBA dollars is ugly?

I'm asking because I think it's my favorite design on a modern-type coin (especially the reverse.)

I also really like the eleven-sided polygon around the edges of the coin.>>


It's not the coin that's ugly it's the woman, even I have to admit she one homely woman and I have the #9 circ set and the #12 proof set

LastExitInNY

To me a toned coin is ugly. SBA's aren't that bad when you consider some people cook coins and change their appearacne. SBA is an original, good or bad, it's authentic with no doubts of it

WoodenJefferson

Welcome to the boards...now about SBA...well, consumers were not ready for a coin that looked and fealt like a quarter...and had a once living woman on the obverse. The coin just never got off the ground...the proofs are absolutly gorgeous, but the circulated busniess strikes have much to be desired. If you like'em...collect them, don't be swayed by opinion. This is a hobby...not a sport.

FullStrike

Dog are you sure that Susan B Anthony was a woman? I think it's actually Ben Franklin in drag! Was she alive back in old Ben's days? Man the Coin looks good but the pic of SBA is horrible.

quarterguy

You guys think SA in ugly.... wait until we have Hillery's mug on a coin. That will be one coin I will not touch with a 10 pole!

TavernTreasures

<< <i>welcome and to answer your question, its because it looks like granny from the beverly hillbillies on the coin. the edges are nice however. JMO >>




Granny was much better looking!

Actually, a hillbilly (mountain person) may be an appropriate subject for a US coin!

ABC123

Beauty is in the eye of the Holder !

LanLord

<< <i>You guys think SA in ugly.... wait until we have Hillery's mug on a coin. That will be one coin I will not touch with a 10 pole! >>

Jeeze, that just made me throw-up a little in my mouth.

MajorDuty

I like the coin. Sure, the woman depicted on the obverse isn’t exactly a “looker”, but then again neither are any of the other women that were put on other U.S. coins. It’s a coin, people, not a Glamour magazine.

I like the coin for many reasons: I remember as a kid when it came out, it was unique to me, a non-collector. I also remember the talk about wide and narrow borders, and this caused me to keep an eye out for these varieties, again, at the time a kid who was not in to numismatics. In a way I have the SBA to thank for my current interest in the hobby. The “P” mint mark was used on the coin for only the second time in U.S. coinage history, second only to the war nickels. The SBA also has the distinction of having the longest period of time in between being minted 1981 – 1999, one year longer than the Morgan dollar. Yeah, I like the coin.

mrcommem

The only coin that is uglier than the SBA is the Eunice Kennedy "Old Hag" Commemorative Dollar. Those coins are even gonna get uglier when they tone. ARGHHH!!!

Conder101

Yes, I remember Susan Anton

123cents

JoeLewis. I kind of like the Susan B. Anthony Dollar but it is pretty ugly.

dorkkarl

<< <i>Why does everyone seem to think that the design of the SBA dollars is ugly? >>

because . . . . well . . . . . . it is.

K S

dorkkarl

i remember susan anton as well. at least i remember that movie "golden girl" (i think), & didn't she had a vertically challenged relationship w/ dudley moore?

K S

shirohniichan

Maybe the Marshall Islands or Liberia will help us out by issuing Susan Anton dollars and leave SBA to the USA.

Whitby

The SBA dollar is possibly the ugliest coin for circulation in the US. The Shriver Commemorative is very close. In my opinion, the SBA profile reminds me of the business end a 50 year career of doing bend overs for a nickel an hour. She is uglier than a can of smashed a55 holes. Its just a fact. Really.

Coxe

<< <i>Maybe the Marshall Islands or Liberia will help us out by issuing Susan Anton dollars and leave SBA to the USA. >>



No doubt. Have they done Elvis and Marilyn yet (and I don't mean Costello and Manson)?

BTW, here is a coin I got recently under melt that is Liberian. Posted it on the dark side board to find out more about it but it is too slow over there.

quarterguy

Sell me your SBAs!!!!

Gemini

Ben Franklin obv. Liberty Bell rev. makes sense. muling Susan B. Anthony obv. Moon Landing rev. doesn't make design sense. If they wanted to pay tribute to her she should have had her own reverse design to remember her achievements. How about something like "Am I Not a Woman And A Sister" design thats found on HTT's. I could think of better ways of honoring her. Now calm down I am serious here Future generations will think Susie had something to do with the Moon Program instead of fighting for Womens Rights. Oh wait a minute...maybe Susie was an astro-aunt in the Space Program

TavernTreasures

She was an avocate of "temperance". Belly up to the bar fellas.

Dog97

<<<Dog are you sure that Susan B Anthony was a woman? I think it's actually Ben Franklin in drag! Was she alive back in old Ben's days? Man the Coin looks good but the pic of SBA is horrible. >>>
I dunno. She looked like a man....she acted like a man...she blamed all the world's problems on men...she wanted to get paid like a man...she wanted to vote like a man...she said black men threatened the safety of white women...she never married a man...she hung around with a woMAN...think she might have been involved in some of that lesbianism stuff. She was sexist, a racist, an all around troublemaker. She was arrested & convicted and told the judge FU...a common criminal has no place on American coinage.

shirohniichan

<< <i><<<Dog are you sure that Susan B Anthony was a woman? I think it's actually Ben Franklin in drag! Was she alive back in old Ben's days? Man the Coin looks good but the pic of SBA is horrible. >>>
I dunno. She looked like a man....she acted like a man...she blamed all the world's problems on men...she wanted to get paid like a man...she wanted to vote like a man...she said black men threatened the safety of white women...she never married a man...she hung around with a woMAN...think she might have been involved in some of that lesbianism stuff. She was sexist, a racist, an all around troublemaker. She was arrested & convicted and told the judge FU...a common criminal has no place on American coinage. >>



So you like the coin?

Dog97

<<<So you like the coin?>>>
No.