2017 Boys Town Centennial Commemorative Coin Program - The Mint's images are now available
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These are going to take a lot of getting used to.......We may have a new Gold Unc. key in the making.
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Thanks for posting Goldbully. The designs are OK but not spectacular.
Will these get the same reception the Lions Club comems got? At least there is a three coin proof variety set available but not for the unc's. It's possible there could be a race to the bottom for both big releases of 2017 so far.
Thanks for posting these.
Another so-so commemorative set.
It is probably a coincidence but the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel ran the 1938 Spencer Tracy film "Boys Town" a couple of days ago.
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When I saw the half, my first thought was why are they holding rifles (looks like rifle barrels poking out of their gowns), then I realized they were the tassels..
Maybe I'm just ignorant about the nature of the Boys Town organization, but why would you commemorate this by picturing a girl sitting alone puckered-up under the mistletoe?
Is it my imagination or do the folks on the reverse of the half dollar appear to have noses too large for their faces?
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Thank you for posting those "images" Bully.... that was worth a good laugh.
No doubt a contender for the low mintage title. Are these designs being done exclusively on a computer? If so, that would explain a lot.
Count me out....again.
I like the shoes on the girl on the Boy's Town coin. Groundbreaking. I'm all choked up.
O.k., let's have some fun. It looks to me like there is a turtle who is straining to take a bite out of the little girl's shoe. What do you see? Prize for the winning answer to be announced!
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You are referring to the Dollar coin obverse?
I think that's her hand poorly engraved. But I see the turtle's head if I squint a little LOL
I think you might be right, Kudbegud. I'm not squinting but I might just be seeing double. If you get my drift. It's late. Goodnight.
Sure Miles, but I wonder what other images/statements could have been created from the topic at hand.....
........that's a tough one.
@TomB.... I agree... the nose features do seem out of proportion..... Overall, the images do follow the theme of Boys Town...Have not heard much about that for the last twenty years though...so I googled it... It is certainly thriving and appears to still be doing good work. Cheers, RickO
Another oddity to me... take a look at the 5 dancing/skipping children under the tree on the dollar. Each face looks nearly the same! And such an odd expression, one of grimacing or anger?? Course may be just a misleading depiction...
Thanks for posting, looks like my first purchase from the mint this year will be Mar. 23rd for the proof ASE.
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I have no prob with Boys Town, good charitable org.
I suspect artistic license, blend the image of the boys with the caps walking up the dusty road with the clean luggage and the modern Boys Town monument. Whoa-la, ya got a coin. Overlook was later named BT.
THIS.
It has that flat, sand-blasted looking relief lots of CAD designed coins have. Doesn't anyone sculpt anymore!?
This might sound odd, but that $1 design, when it starts toning, I bet will make that coin look spectacular with the tree and the girl.
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Yes, I see the same thing. A turtle or some sort of lizard. A five-striped skink perhaps.
With the exception of the lizard-hand, I actually like the dollar coin. The open clean obverse field has a freshness to it, and I like the offset oak leaves she's gazing at.
The rev., not so much. Cartoonish rip-off of CT Commem, mixed with a "Year of the Child" coin from Sumatra or Borneo or wherever all those coins were "from."