A beautiful and stunning commemorative! The best design in history!
Russ
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If you put the coin in the oven for a few hours.
42/92
09/07/2006
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Al
Everyone knows the most beautiful modern is the Dolly Dollar.
<< <i>Everyone knows the most beautiful modern is the Dolly Dollar. >>
Joe
What were they thinking?
Stuart
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Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
2. I watched Wizard of Oz last night with my daughter -- the witch is the exact match to that coin!!
rainbowroosie April 1, 2003
War is peace
Ignorance is strength
What's wrong with you people?
Tom
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
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RainbowRoosie: Fair point. I also love The Stooges. Shemp was supposed to look wierd & ugly to be funny, but what's her excuse??
Stuart
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<< <i>This joke never gets old, does it? >>
What joke?
Russ, NCNE
The mintage was quite high compared to most of the other commemoratives about this time.
<< <i>Great New Years Start Guys--Now we're making fun of a women who though unattractive has brought meaning to the lives of thousands of badly disabled and deformed children--- >>
No, we're making fun of the bust of her that appears on the coin. In real life, she's not a bad looking woman for her age. The designer of this coin is lucky she didn't sue him.
Russ, NCNE
Russ, NCNE
Just another example of how the Kennedys have more political influence than they should.
<< <i>Nothing new really, 90% of US coins have unattractive portraits on them-----------------------BigE >>
Yes, but how many of these unattractive portraits make certain coin collectors repeatedly shriek in pain, shiver, or curse? Yes, we've revisited this one a few times already, but good cliches are established for good reason. This haggard portrait has to win some awards among coin designs as whatever award Henny Youngman's "take my wife...please" won.
Saying that 90% of stand-up comics rework old material doesn't single out the most celebrated culprits, and BigE's statement rationalizes away the most hideous designs. The maligned Shriver Commememorative is, in my mind, as much of our little corner of culture as a a Don Rickles "hockey puck" is to comedy.
And besides, Sargent Shriver is too classy of a guy to take out a contract on the designer of this one. He even smiled upon hearing Frank Zappa and the Mothers sing "Who Needs the Peace Corps?"
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Russ, NCNE >>
Was Jackie-O still alive in 1995? I would think she would have been horrified by this coin, given she had a problem with a few errant hairs on her husband's portrait!!
<< <i>I have wondered if all of the mintage of these actually sold.
The mintage was quite high compared to most of the other commemoratives about this time. >>
I think Phoenix Life Insurance Company, a major Spec. Olympics sponser, bought 50,000 or so of these coins and then unloaded them on their employees and gave them away as promotional gifts.