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Needs more cowbell

2017 was the year of the enhanced uncirculated set.

2018 shall be even greater!! Even proof-ier!! Even reverse-ier!! And in SILVER....GAZE AND WEEP...

ok just a little dramatic. But here you go. Have a look at this.

Insert witicism here. [ xxx ]

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  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 16, 2017 12:59PM

    The U.S. Mint needs to obtain some form of abbreviated minting facilities in New Orleans and Carson City so they can begin using "O" and "CC" mintmarks once again on collector coins. (sarc)

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DCW said:
    I'm completely over this reverse proof garbage.
    It's nothing special if you keep doing it every year or so.
    The mint should completely rethink their business model. Put out a product that combines artistic talent with precious metal content.
    Basically, the exact opposite of the computer generated crap that graces just about every planchet struck at their facilities.

    It's not going to happen anytime soon. Probably never. What you see is what you get. And will be getting. From now to forever. Sad.

  • UMCaneUMCane Posts: 213 ✭✭✭

    Real proof coins were made by accident.

    "Just because you were born on 3rd base doesn't mean you hit a triple"

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Other than coins for commerce, I'm (almost) completely over US mint issues.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Art, as it applies to coins, is not longer a part of the Mint's purvey...it is all about commercialism and quantity. Too bad... The U.S. should be a prominent leader in artistic coins... even if they are not the major circulation coins.... sadly, commercialism and design by committee has taken over....Cheers, RickO

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 17, 2017 8:48AM

    The "Artistic Infusion" people do not understand that coins are three-dimensional. They miss (or dismiss) that coins are typically relatively small objects.

    As a result, they submit two-dimensional 'poster art' that would be great for a Disney movie poster, something large and flat, placed at the entrance to, or in the lobby of a movie theater.

    And it doesn't work for coinage.

    I am always amazed that the U.S. Mint can find such good sculptor-engravers. IMHO, the sculptor-engravers generally try to fix that flatness of the poster art designs they are handed. Such talented people have to be pretty rare nowadays.

    The Royal Canadian Mint relies more and more on computer based designs in these days of over-issue, and there are all kinds of design snafus. One of these days, the Royal Canadian Mint will issue a one ounce silver coin where a fir tree will be growing directly out of a bobcat's or moose's behind hole. Just wait and see.

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 13,776 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe some new designs on our coinage would be well excepted. After all how much longer can we happily live with the same ole same ole. They need to go back to the 20’s & 30’s idea of thinking. For Gods sake let’s have attractive coins :)

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

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