New Nickel design POLL

baccaruda · November 6, 2003 12:55AM

Alright, we definitely need a poll for this one. Good or No good?

Placid · November 6, 2003 12:57AM

The lewis and clark is ok. The other one sucks azz.

1957joe · November 6, 2003 12:58AM

I like it! ANY (almost any) change is a good thing for the hobby in general!

numonebuyer · November 6, 2003 12:58AM

Any change has to a thumbs up. We have got to break the opinion of the public to stay with these old designs.

Numonebuyer

kieferscoins · November 6, 2003 1:00AM

I would love to see it in DCAM.

Cameron Kiefer

baccaruda · November 6, 2003 1:02AM

- I like both

GQ · November 6, 2003 1:03AM

Two hands shaking and a canoe in the water....you don't see that everyday.

XpipedreamR · November 6, 2003 1:03AM

No, no, no...a million times no!

baccaruda · November 6, 2003 1:04AM

I'm not sure, but isn't the first a Jefferson Commem knockoff?

ccrdragon · November 6, 2003 1:06AM

The boat is so-so, the hand shake totally sux!

baccaruda · November 6, 2003 1:07AM

or is the handshake an old Peace medal design?

keets · November 6, 2003 1:09AM

hey Gq

that's really a keelboat, not a canoe.

barracuda, that design is taken from the Peace Medal's reverse. i'm uncertain if it was first used by Jefferson, but i believe it was, and then it was issued by succeeding presidents with their bust on the obvers. the big difference is the spirit in which it was given.

al h.

ms70 · November 6, 2003 1:11AM

Virginia can kiss my keel.

fountainheadgold · November 6, 2003 1:15AM

Terrible

nwcs · November 6, 2003 1:19AM

Bottom one is better. Which one does the poll refer to?

baccaruda · November 6, 2003 1:20AM

both, overall.

mgoodm3 · November 6, 2003 1:23AM

Dull designs, but any change is good.

millennium · November 6, 2003 1:34AM

I am ready for a change in design, but these are not very attractive, IMO.

mercurynut · November 6, 2003 2:05AM

Anything w/o full steps is fine with me lol!!!!

golddustin · November 6, 2003 2:29AM

Of the two, I agree with most that the keelboat is better....but not much of a choice! My suggestion would be a scene of Napoleon glumly signing over the territory so he could keep financing his fleet! (with Jefferson in the background smiling slyly, and rubbing his hands together - kinda like Rumsfield "advising" G-Dub).

keets · November 6, 2003 2:41AM

hey Dustin

i doubt that the signing was a glum occasion. perhaps the money was used to finance the French fleet. the major reason the French agreed to sell the land to the Americans was to prevent the British from gaining a further stronghold in the New World by both limiting British expansion and strenghtening the French relationship with their American ally.

al h.

CoinHusker · November 6, 2003 3:44AM

I like them. The first is the reverse used on the medals Jefferson issed to Lewis and Clark to hand out to the native americans they came in contact with. I think it's a great way to commemorate one of the greatest quests of discovery in our Nation's history. The next would be to eliminate the $1 bill and circulate the Sac exclusively.

BillJones · November 6, 2003 4:48AM

Both of them beat the "trolly car" reverse that had been on the Jefferson nickel for the last 65 years. I vote thumbs up.

windwhispersintrees · November 6, 2003 4:49AM

My five cents worth:

We can and should do much better.

Shaking Hands Design: Text at top too large & dominating. Take up more of the field with the hands.

Boat Design: For a coin as small as a nickel, the boat has way too much detail and is too small. Again, make it bigger to take up more of the field.

jjroll · November 6, 2003 4:56AM

RBB617 · November 6, 2003 6:10AM

Just wait for the designations - FF = Full fingers, FFN = Full Fingernails, FP = Full Pole, FK = Full Keelboat, FSL + Full Sail Lines

Brian

Edited to Add: I didn't notice JBStevens thread where several people beat me to the punch. Damn this day job, it keeps me from adding my 2 cents.

billboat · November 6, 2003 6:58AM

Leave the Indian Peace Medal design where it belongs--on Indian Peace Medals. Both designs stink, are too busy for a small coin and typify the recent out put of the US Mint--pure crap in terms of design. (Next time I'll tell you how I really feel)

baccaruda · November 6, 2003 7:10AM

Wow man, 50-50 split just about. I had a feeling it would turn out like that.

Tootawl · November 6, 2003 7:15AM

Is it me or does the handshake look like two people wearing Civil War outfits?
The boat looks like a Roman barge.

Both designs suck.

coinpage · November 6, 2003 7:30AM

Good enough..

291fifth · November 6, 2003 8:55AM

Both designs are bland and unoriginal. They have the look of Franklin Mint products from the mid-1970's.

dollardude · November 6, 2003 9:06AM

So-so. I agree with several other people, in that ANY change is a GOOD thing! The nickel design has been around for 60+ years. It is starting to get boring.

razorface1027 · November 6, 2003 9:10AM

The lewis and clark is ok. The other one sucks azz. i

I must agree...

CarlWohlforth · November 6, 2003 9:20AM

I really like the new designs! Perhaps I've seen too many of the current one

MacCoin · November 6, 2003 9:27AM

if its new I like it. now I would like to see the dime with a new design or maybe the half. I think coinage has come a long way sence the state quarter come out.

JRocco · November 6, 2003 9:34AM

Change is good, BUT ,,, the handshake doesn't do it and the boat (any boat always makes people feel all fuzzy inside) needs a little more kick to it.

Darkhorse · November 6, 2003 9:39AM

I don't really like it.

<< <i>Boat Design: For a coin as small as a nickel, the boat has way too much detail and is too small. Again, make it bigger to take up more of the field. >>

I don't buy that, take a look at the Canadian 10¢ coin, smuch smaller than a nickel but the schooner design is detailed and works well.

MJCoin · November 6, 2003 10:30AM

They could be better but any change after 66 years is ok by me.

LanLord · November 6, 2003 11:24AM

They're okay, but I think the CCAC (or what ever they are these days) are full of cr a p for not changing the obverse to the image of Jeff that looks like the 1 dollar commem.

Android · November 6, 2003 11:30AM

Perhaps, I am uninformed. Are these the ACTUAL reverses for the new nickel? If so, both are horrifically uninspired. A big

from me.

windwhispersintrees · November 6, 2003 11:36AM

An image for your consideration. Some observations below.

1. The Canadian sailboat design is about shapes, not lines.

2. It looks good small because it's an arrangement of big shapes, and the few lines used are clean and relatively straight.

3. Buildings depicted with lines are ok too on small coins because buildings are rectilinear: the lines don't visually tangle like spaghetti. Plus, we already know what buildings look like....you can use as little as a square with a triangle on top, and the viewer can envision a house.

4. The new Nickel boat design is a chicken soup of overlapping lines; we're not sure what the damn thing is supposed to look like because we don't encounter keelboats everyday on the way to work.

5. The Viking dollar is a lot bigger than a nickel, and look at the relative lack of detail on the people. The figures on Lewis & Clark Nickel will be little pimples.

6. Why did Lewis & Clark have to use such a sissy boat?

7. The heck with historical accuracy...let's use that cool Viking boat instead!

ms70 · November 6, 2003 11:37AM

I agree with an earlier post saying that we already have a commemorative coin program. That is where this stuff belongs. As for a
circulating nickel, I think the Jefferson/Monticello design has run its course, should be retired, & something totally new should be designed.

ms70 · November 6, 2003 11:39AM

AND another thing- The boat looks like the rubber raft they put on the Missouri Quarter, only with a sail & canopy.

fishcooker · November 6, 2003 12:26PM

I don't like the one with the Golf clubs

Wolf359 · November 6, 2003 12:27PM

Ok, I like both...it's just that French thing, and I'm part-French!

sumnom · November 7, 2003 12:47AM

Horrific. Inexcusable. A disgrace. The mint should be razed to the ground.

baccaruda · November 7, 2003 12:54AM

Hey - no fair comparing the RCM to our own mint, they'll kick our butts everytime.

sumnom · November 8, 2003 3:26PM

I don't mean to be rude but how could anyone actually like these designs?????? I have from time to time defended the sac. How about some of these new nickel lovers coming out and defending the indefensible?

Darkhorse · November 8, 2003 4:52PM

A closer look at hte Canadian dime. Like the Canadian 1, 5, and 25¢ coin the design has been the same since 1937 and is due for a redesign itself. Granted, before 1935-1937 Canada had some of the most boring looking coins in the world at the time (in my opinion).

The design for the 10¢ coin was originally slated to be on the 25¢ but works well on a small scale. As previously mentioned it's a lot of big shapes as opposed to lines.

US coins also have to deal with more words: United States of America, E Pluribus Unum, In God We Trust, Liberty, Date, Denomination... and the caption for the commemoration on top of that.

There's a lot to be said about the KISS rule. Keep It Simple, Stupid.

fcloud · November 8, 2003 9:44PM

Any change right now is a big improvement. I think the designs are okay (yes they could be better); however, just the simple fact we have a modification in our coins in which are way over due for new design make me happy as a Lark!

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