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Ike dollar = ugliest coin

ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
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Its big, ugly, and just plain ugly!
What say you?

p.s. its ugly
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  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    I've seen worse designs.
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  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    Well, American coin...
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  • Coll3ctorColl3ctor Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Well, American coin... >>



    Yes, the Wyoming state quarter image
  • OneCentOneCent Posts: 3,561 ✭
    Ummm..not a chance, no way, nada.

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  • jmcu12jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭
    Agreed, very ugly. And I know I am in a minority on this. It ranks up there with other badly designed coins, i.e. anything 'Walking' to include halves, dollars, and $20 gold...and while we are on the subject of ugly coinage, lets go to the $5 and $10 Indians too.

    Sorry JMO.
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  • garsmithgarsmith Posts: 5,894 ✭✭
    <<Ike dollar = ugliest coin>>

    Susan B. sure ain't winning no beauty contests!
    some of the state quarters are butt ugly!
    and the presi's ain't all to attractive either!

    Maybe the mint needs to go back to the classic designs image
  • bigtime36bigtime36 Posts: 964 ✭✭✭✭
    I would have to say that the new presidential dollars had little to no creativity when designed.... just plain horrible.

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  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    The Ike dollar is rather nice, but only in

    MS-68, 69 or 70 grades. Lower grades

    just look like someone went ice skating

    all over the surface.
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  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    I like the reverse

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  • brendabrenda Posts: 64
    I like the IKe , it has a very financial look to it ,its better than the crap coins they make today imo.
  • jamakinjamakin Posts: 1,055
    Obvrse is not bad but that reverse is image
    I could draw a better eagle!
  • ArtistArtist Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It ranks up there with other badly designed coins, i.e. anything 'Walking' to include halves, dollars, and $20 gold...and while we are on the subject of ugly coinage, lets go to the $5 and $10 Indians too.

    Sorry JMO. >>





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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Ike dollar = ugliest coin >>



    You should be SHOT for making such a statement!!!!! imageimage

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  • Coll3ctorColl3ctor Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Agreed, very ugly. And I know I am in a minority on this. It ranks up there with other badly designed coins, i.e. anything 'Walking' to include halves, dollars, and $20 gold...and while we are on the subject of ugly coinage, lets go to the $5 and $10 Indians too.

    Sorry JMO. >>




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  • ChrisRxChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭
    Yea Susan B as well, but the Ike has an ugly mug and its on a bigger coin!
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  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    anyone have a pic of supercoin`s alien ike?
    that pic might make you change your mind.

    heck, i like ike
  • ccmorganccmorgan Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭
    Yes the Ike obverse, just not enough detail.

    Another vote for the wyoming quarter. image
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  • MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    There are others that are worse- like others have stated, the wyoming quarter is a freakin' joke...
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  • ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,655 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Apparently you've never seen a Shield Nickel, especially a circulated one. As far as I'm concerned, if it began being minted after WW II ended, it's ugly.
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  • cmerlo1cmerlo1 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think the SBA Dollar and the Special Olympics commemorative are worse...
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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The 1991 USO commem dollar beats the Ike dollar hands down when it comes to fugly.

    I agree with bear the Ike dollar is gorgeous in superb gem grades. I am also a huge fan of the 1973-S silver proof "brown" Ike and have been hoarding them for quite some time now.
  • MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
    How can anyone think this is ugly?

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  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭
    better than the SBA
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  • ModernCrapNutModernCrapNut Posts: 2,086 ✭
    There are several that I don't care for, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so I don't comment on coins I don't care for. Back to the old thing of "collect what you like", so I see no reason to make negative comments about coins that someone else may like.


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  • GritsManGritsMan Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭
    I think part of the problem with the Ike is it's so danged BIG. It reminds me of those metal switch box slugs you find at construction sites. If it were silver, it'd have a different feel, but it just feels like a chunk of metal. I've grown fonder of the design over the years, though. The Prez dollars beat it hands down for ugliness.
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  • ttownttown Posts: 4,472 ✭✭✭
    I like it, the SBA dollar is another story. Just the size and weight of the coin takes me back to the days of the REAL Silver Dollar.
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    Not ugly in my opinion. Do you think the Jefferson nickel and Roosevelt dime are nicer on the eye?
  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭
    I like Ike. Our other modern coins are bland, but it wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have to look at the same designs for the last 60+ years on most of them. Barbers do nothing for me. I like the reverse on Barber qtrs and halves, but why did he have to make he same generic obverse design for the dime, qtr AND half?

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  • dlimb2dlimb2 Posts: 3,449
    I use to think it was the ugliest coin also...But after you see a high grade one...it if far from ugly!
  • foodudefoodude Posts: 3,577 ✭✭✭
    I like 'em, but then again I collect and deal in Franklin halvesimage Now that SBA ...image
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  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    Exactly what makes you think it is so ugly?
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  • nankrautnankraut Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭
    I'm with mesquite on this one.
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  • John737John737 Posts: 130
    It's not even close. The Special Olympics commem.
  • planetsteveplanetsteve Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭✭
    Don't balding men deserve some representation on US coinage? <running fingers through hair nervously>
  • CgbCgb Posts: 710 ✭
    I like Ike!

    Especially the reverse, eagle on the moon!
  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ike's in high grade form are very attractive, and are a series that is very undervalued.

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  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    This is the ugliest!image

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  • John737John737 Posts: 130
    At least the reverse is pretty cool, copied from the Apollo 11 mission patch.
  • rooksmithrooksmith Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭✭
    If you consider the "style" of Frank Gasparro, you realize he's sort of an interpreter of faces. The Larger than life eyes that look sort of "comic book" style what I'm refering to.



    You see it in the Anthony Dollar too.S ince he was the Chief Engraver, he did what wanted to.. I say The Susan B. Anthony Dollar is the runner up, for Ugly.


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    I Think Frank was a bit disappointed hat his Liberty design got shot down by the Feministas.




    I'm surprised you dont like the largenesss of the size -
    Remember they were introduced to be "silver dollars" --(primarilly to keep the casino's in Vegas supplied).

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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Agreed, very ugly. And I know I am in a minority on this. It ranks up there with other badly designed coins, i.e. anything 'Walking' to include halves, dollars, and $20 gold...and while we are on the subject of ugly coinage, lets go to the $5 and $10 Indians too.

    Sorry JMO. >>



    Well, you just chose the 2 most beloved US coin designs that have been produced, the Saints and the Walking Lib Halves. I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion, but... if you dont like Saints or Walkers, what do you like?
  • ArizonadesertratArizonadesertrat Posts: 566 ✭


    << <i>How can anyone think this is ugly?

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,587 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The obverse of the Ike dollar isn't the best, but it certainly isn't the worst. The reverse is another story. The reverse, which was mandated by congress, was based on the Apollo 11 mission patch. The design was fine for a shoulder patch but that is all. On a coin it is just kitsch...and the agony was continued when the reverse design was also mandated for the Susan B. Anthony dollar.

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  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This is the ugliest!image

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    wow, somebody please tell me who that's supposed to be.


    *edit* nevermind. It's eunice kennedy

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    Good shops to buy Ike's from??
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  • FrankcoinsFrankcoins Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would have to say that the new presidential dollars had little to no creativity when designed.... just plain horrible. >>



    They look like the Shell gasoline "Mr President Coin Game" tokens from 35 years ago...

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,703 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I would have to say that the new presidential dollars had little to no creativity when designed.... just plain horrible. >>



    They look like the Shell gasoline "Mr President Coin Game" tokens from 35 years ago...

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    I think the Mr President Coin Game pieces exhibit extremely good art and manufacture.

    Take a look at a few of these in hand. Like most all Franklin Mint products they are very well done.

    I like Ike. Gasparro did about as good of a job with it as he could with the subject matter. I don't like the bicentennial design but it's not awful either.

    The new dollar coins I've seen are not very attractive though perhaps they'll grow on me.
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  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    Ike: Great president, ugly coin
  • 19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,492 ✭✭✭✭
    No uglier than a Roosevelt, a Jefferson, a Washington, a Kennedy, or a Lincoln!
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  • TexastTexast Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭✭
    Tell me, what about this is ugly?

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  • jmcu12jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭
    GoldenEye



    << <i>Well, you just chose the 2 most beloved US coin designs that have been produced, the Saints and the Walking Lib Halves. I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion, but... if you dont like Saints or Walkers, what do you like? >>



    I like Morgans, anything Seated, Flying Eagles, Barber reverses, Drapped Busts, Heraldic Eagles. I guess the Art Deco type designs really do not appeal to me at all. I also forgot to mention Peace Dollars and the Eunice Kennedy Commem as other designs that I simply cannot stand. Peace Dollars=glorified silver rounds worth melt...not that I would not sell one for a profit, but I would not pay more than melt for one.

    And I think there was another comment about the reverse of the Ike being nice as it was a patch for the Apollo mission. I would be more inclined to agree if the patch were accurately and FULLY represented. Most of the smaller details of the patch were left out of the coins design, a mistake IMO.
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