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topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I nominate the 2c piece.

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(classic styles please. The Shriver commem is worse than a lockwasher.)
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  • agentjim007agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭
    3c nickel
  • mdwoodsmdwoods Posts: 5,559 ✭✭✭
    3c silver
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  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,060 ✭✭✭
    The Carter Quarter!

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  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭
    I L O V E the 2-cent piece!! Matter of fact, I'll take any and all extras anyone who hates them has and wants to get rid of!image

    For my money (no pun intended), the downright ugliest coin has to be the much-maligned SBA - - hands down!! NO artistic value whatsoever on the obverse, although I will give you the reverse is not bad.

    - - Dave
  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I L O V E the 2-cent piece!! Matter of fact, I'll take ny extras anyone who hates them has!image

    For my money (no pun intended), the downright ugliest coin has to be the much-maligned SBA - - hands down!! NO artistic value whatsoever on the obverse, although I will give you the reverse is not bad.

    - - Dave >>




    I'm with ya Dave, love my 2 centers! image

    Cheers,
    Ray
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭


    << <i>3c nickel >>



    Philistine!
  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    tie between

    sba &

    dde

    dollars



    image

    oopsie, dosie, like the OP I too can edit my post

    to

    shield nickel


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  • FullStrikeFullStrike Posts: 4,353 ✭✭✭
    Roosevelt Dime and Jefferson Nickel.
  • baseballjeffbaseballjeff Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭
    The Peace dollar is a love-hate relationship contender for me. I hate how they are SO weakly struck, and how a nice AU example looks often times better than an MS 65. I know I'll get slapped in the face nominating this coin, but that's my 2 cents, oh yeah, the SBA is pretty bad too.

  • TookybanditTookybandit Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭✭
    I think this is the winner!!!
    Technically not a US Coin

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  • ianrussellianrussell Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I agree... Peace dollar.
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  • x2riderx2rider Posts: 60 ✭
    SBA for sure
  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,337 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I agree... Peace dollar. >>



    Someone with a Morgan avatar disses the Peace dollar? image
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭
    Darn, Ray!! I guess that means I won't be getting any 2-centers from you anytime soon?!image

    - - Daveimage
  • CoinMan1012CoinMan1012 Posts: 379


    << <i>

    << <i>I L O V E the 2-cent piece!! Matter of fact, I'll take ny extras anyone who hates them has!image

    For my money (no pun intended), the downright ugliest coin has to be the much-maligned SBA - - hands down!! NO artistic value whatsoever on the obverse, although I will give you the reverse is not bad.

    - - Dave >>




    I'm with ya Dave, love my 2 centers! image

    Cheers,
    Ray >>


    At least some people got class. image
    Just do it.
  • djdilliodondjdilliodon Posts: 1,938 ✭✭
    Sba by far!!
  • FlatwoodsFlatwoods Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>tie between

    sba &

    dde

    dollars



    image

    oopsie, dosie, like the OP I too can edit my post

    to

    shield nickel


    image >>









    Shield nickel!!!! Now wait just a minute!


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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,814 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I agree... Peace dollar. >>



    Someone with a Morgan avatar disses the Peace dollar? image >>



    Agree. At least the Peace dollar shows a woman. Miss Liberty on the Morgan dollars and the Barber dimes, quarters, and halves look too masculine.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,768 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since we said U.S. coins that would include the commemoratives. To me this is worst design. The obverse has some interesting symbolism, but the reverse is just boring and unattractive. It is hard to believe that two designers were involved in devising this reverse.

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    I was surprised to see the Two Cent piece here. I would not rate it as among the best, but it certainly is not the worst. Many observers have said that it's design cousin, the Shield nickel, was dull and looks like a tombstone. I would say that the nickel design is certainly less pleasing.

    Two Cent Piece

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    Shield Nickel

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,768 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As for unattractive designs, I'd say that the lady who graces the obverse of your avatar is not very attractive, topstuf. In fact I'd say that she one tough looking broad. image

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  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    I really didn't want to do this. Waited & waited for someone else to step up to the plate and take the bullet for me, but it looks like no one will do the dirty deed, so here goes . . .











































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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,814 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The Carter Quarter!

    image >>



    I never heard that expression before. Is that the SBA dollar?

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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dad-gummit, I can't find the Abe Vigoda Shriver photoshop obverse I did several years ago when this subject came up. Hoping someone else here copied it and squirreled it away for its shock value.
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  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>As for unattractive designs, I'd say that the lady who graces the obverse of your avatar is not very attractive, topstuf. In fact I'd say that she one tough looking broad. image >>



    Looking at all of the coinage designs done by John Reich it's pretty easy to see he was a chubby chaser! image
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,768 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>As for unattractive designs, I'd say that the lady who graces the obverse of your avatar is not very attractive, topstuf. In fact I'd say that she one tough looking broad. image >>



    Looking at all of the coinage designs done by John Reich it's pretty easy to see he was a chubby chaser! image >>



    Large women were considered to be quite attractive in the early 19th century. It probably had something to do with their ability to bear children. At any rate one of the John Reich's detractors made the comment that he based the design on his coins from an image of "his fat mistress."
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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hands down........NO CONTEST......the SBA dollar.

    Followed closely by:

    IKE dollar
    Prez dollars and 1st lady crap!
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,530 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Hands down........NO CONTEST......the SBA dollar.

    Followed closely by:

    IKE dollar
    Prez dollars and 1st lady crap! >>


    You didn't even mention Shriver?!?! image
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  • veryfineveryfine Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭


    << <i>As for unattractive designs, I'd say that the lady who graces the obverse of your avatar is not very attractive, topstuf. In fact I'd say that she one tough looking broad. image

    image
    image >>


    I was just about to make the same comment. It is one of the most unnattractive renditions of Liberty.
  • Type2Type2 Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>As for unattractive designs, I'd say that the lady who graces the obverse of your avatar is not very attractive, topstuf. In fact I'd say that she one tough looking broad. image

    image
    image >>


    I was just about to make the same comment. It is one of the most unnattractive renditions of Liberty. >>

    I think is it a he or a she or a heshe. image


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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    >>>You didn't even mention Shriver?!?! <<<

    Yes, that is one butt ugly coin. But I didn't consider it since it is a commem and thus not an actual coin design to be used year after year.

    There are lots of ugly commem's.
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    The beauty or ugliness of a coin design doesn't always relate to my interesting collecting a particular series. I like mid-date large cents, two-cent pieces, silver three-cent pieces, shield nickels, SBAs, and even Ikes. They aren't the best looking coins but I am still interested in having them in my collections. And think about some of the pre-federal issues. Many of them are not too nice on the eyes but they are fascinating (to me). The silver three-cent pieces are intriguing to me because the design is so peculiar.

  • daOnlyBGdaOnlyBG Posts: 1,060 ✭✭
    For me, it's the Morgan obverse. Ugly, puffy face.
    DMPL pieces, though, make up for that ugliness and then some- they're really cool looking.
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  • lavalava Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I really didn't want to do this. Waited & waited for someone else to step up to the plate and take the bullet for me, but it looks like no one will do the dirty deed, so here goes . . .





    +1 -- I don't think anything comes close to this.





































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    HH >>

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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    > Ugliest US coin ?:

    Any zinc lincoln cent that has spent time in the ground.
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  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    She looks like a coin that only a collector or a pirate would love:

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  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭
    A couple of runner-ups . . .

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    . . . I mean, what's the deal with FEET coins ? ! ? ! image

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,178 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the sba gets my vote
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ikes, SBAs. Some people think that Morgans are unattractive as they have a 'fat head'.

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  • REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I thought I'd revive this thread:

    Far and away: Baseball Hall of Fame coin is seriously lame.
  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The US Marshals are joining the club.

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  • vplite99vplite99 Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't like Ike.
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  • RCDBRCDB Posts: 388
    Eunice wins by a mile. It is the only coin that when it is in my field of vision that I must turn away from. image
  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Chain Cent is pretty scary.
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  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    Those who said the peace dollar should bite your tongues. That design was one of the most artful designs ever placed on US coins. DeFrancisci couldn't help that the mint didn't want to spend the money to strike them properly.

    Definitely the SBA or the Eisenhower dollar have to be the tied winners here.
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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,178 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the 3 cent pieces
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Probably something found in my collection...

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,814 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The ugliest coins that I've seen are coins with dark splotchy toning.

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  • jmcu12jmcu12 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭
    In no particular order - walking liberty half, st Gaudens $20 gold, special Olympic dollar, Mercury dime, Franklin half,
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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Most beautiful: Peace dollar, St. Gaudens $20 (and $10), Buffalo, most everything in the Flowing Hair / Bust series, Walker, SLQ, Indian cent, Oregon, Pilgrim, Columbian, Lafayette, Sac dollar, platinum issues, PanPac.

    Just OK: Seated, Barber, Morgan, Mercs, many early Federal gold issues, most classic commems, modern bullion issues/retreads, state and ATB quarters

    Ugliest: Anything featuring a politician, SBA, Ike, Prez Bucks, shield nickel, virtually all modern commems.

    The 2c piece features two reverse designs in my opinion, and is odd, but not ugly.

    When it comes the single ugliest, the Eunice Shriver takes the concept of atrocious hideousness to new heights.
  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,738 ✭✭✭✭✭
    SBA are ugly

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