Proposed Sacagawea Designs

Zoins

Just ran across this proposed Sacagawea design at the link below. Anyone know who came up with this design?

http://dollar-coin.nu/story.html

Anyone have images of other proposed designs?

ricko

I do not recall that proposed design... However, I do like it and would be in favor of seeing it in the future. Cheers, RickO

Kccoin

What a great design!

I don't know the history about. It would be interesting to see the design struck, even as a new commemorative piece

topstuf

What we got was a silly design and, while customary, it's too bad.

koynekwest

I disagree-I think the selected (current) design is just fine and by far the best of the presently circulating coins.

To each their own, I guess.

koynekwest

BTW Zoins-I also like the one you posted quite a bit, too.

AUandAG

Not real keen on that grounded Eagle.

She has a big nose, too......

bob

Zoins

The website was designed from before the coin was launched and has a couple of nice period ads on it:

Zoins

Found out a bit more about the reverse above. It was designed by Roy Andersen:

Roy Andersen
Roy Andersen honed his artistic skills in the competitive New York illustration market. He was commissioned to paint many Time magazine covers, which are now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Mr. Andersen has painted for the National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, the National Parks Service, and movie posters. Mr. Andersen's United States Postal Service Commemorative Stamp Series on Purebred Dogs and American Horses won "Stamp of the Year Awards" from the Postal Commemorative Society in 1984 and 1985.
Mr. Andersen is an award-winning member of the Cowboy Artists of America. He concentrates primarily on historical oil paintings of Native American Indians, and his original oils are exhibited in many museums and galleries throughout the western part of the United States.

koynekwest

That reverse wouldn't be bad paired with the currently used obverse.

We also need to get the DATE restored to the face of the coin instead of the damned edge.