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messydeskmessydesk Posts: 19,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Too bad Frederic Remington didn't live long enough to get in on the "hey day" of classic commems. Just think of what the Spanish Trail store card ... I mean half dollar could have looked like with a competent sculptor at the helm. Then I was wondering what our coinage would have looked like had he and Alexander Phimister Proctor worked alongside James Earle Fraser. Giddy-freakin-yap!
John
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars

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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,475 ✭✭✭✭
    I don;t believe for a second that its the US Mint sculptors that is the problem as much as it is the high speed minting equipment (which demands low profile coins) and the PC crew down in DC!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
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    19Lyds19Lyds Posts: 26,475 ✭✭✭✭
    Oh wait, Random thoughts usually demand random answers. image

    Well, that may be but unless it can actually move on its own then it just ain't gonna work!
    I decided to change calling the bathroom the John and renamed it the Jim. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.



    The name is LEE!
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    LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Design by committee kills creativity.
    And it really does not make too much difference where the committee sits.
    My Current project....https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/mysetregistry/album/160794
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    messydeskmessydesk Posts: 19,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wouldn't have wanted them to collaborate on individual designs, but each have their own little round canvas. I also agree that they'd be wasted on today's low-relief stuff, which I why I kept my musings in the earlier half of the 20th century.
    John
    Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars
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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The state of our coinage today is the direct result of bureacracy over art. No wonder more and more collectors are turning to darkside coins, they are much more attractive. Cheers, RickO

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