A beautiful and stunning commemorative! The best design in history!

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  • ziggy29
    ziggy29 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭
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    Dang, Eunice is HOT.





    If you put the coin in the oven for a few hours.
  • JrGMan2004
    JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
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    -George
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  • nankraut
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  • cosmicdebris
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  • grip
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    They forgot to ad the broomimage.

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    Al
  • K6AZ
    K6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭
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    I think I just lost my dinner.

    Everyone knows the most beautiful modern is the Dolly Dollar.
  • Coinhusker1
    Coinhusker1 Posts: 3,560 ✭
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    << <i>Everyone knows the most beautiful modern is the Dolly Dollar. >>



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  • PhillyJoe
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    Russ just broke his resolution to be a kinder, gentler Russ this year.image

    Joe
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  • FatMan
    FatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
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    Russ, you truely have impeccable taste in coin design.image
  • Koinlink
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    What were they thinking? image
  • Stuart
    Stuart Posts: 9,831 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Russ: Is that a portrait of "Shemp" from the 3 Stooges on that coin?? image I see a strong resmblance to him...

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    Stuart

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  • dpoole
    dpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice specimen there, Russ!

    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



  • mgoodm3
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    That's a MAN, baby!
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  • Shamika
    Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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    Eunice or Eugene???

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  • Shamika
    Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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    I always thought she looked like Eric Roberts the actor.

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  • rainbowroosie
    rainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭
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    I. Do not insult Shemp -- I love the Stooges.
    2. I watched Wizard of Oz last night with my daughter -- the witch is the exact match to that coin!!image
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  • RYK
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    If it were me, I would have chosen a wheelchair basketball design rather than Ms. Shriver's profile. She certainly deserves credit for doing some terrific things to help those with mental retardation and physical handicaps. image
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  • Shamika
    Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
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    Why doesn't she have an adam's apple?

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  • JRocco
    JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Hey Russ, just looking at that can put hair on your chest.
    Some coins are just plain "Interesting"
  • mrearlygold
    mrearlygold Posts: 17,862 ✭✭✭
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    Ugly is beautiful

    War is peace

    Ignorance is strength


    What's wrong with you people?

    Tomimage

    Coin's for sale/trade.


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  • Stuart
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    << I. Do not insult Shemp -- I love the Stooges. >>

    RainbowRoosie: Fair point. I also love The Stooges. Shemp was supposed to look wierd & ugly to be funny, but what's her excuse?? image

    Stuart

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  • flaminio
    flaminio Posts: 5,664 ✭✭✭
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    She's a man, baby!

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  • sumnom
    sumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
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    This joke never gets old, does it?
  • Russ
    Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
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    << <i>This joke never gets old, does it? >>



    What joke?

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  • sumnom
    sumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
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    Oh, right. Sorry.
  • ozzysdad
    ozzysdad Posts: 534
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    Look's more like Eric Roberts in drag, Than Shemp?image
  • BigE
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    Nothing new really, 90% of US coins have unattractive portraits on them-----------------------BigE
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  • morgannut2
    morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
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    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---This is going to be a tough year here with you all!!!!image
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  • ldhair
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    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.
    Larry

  • K6AZ
    K6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭
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  • Russ
    Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
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    << <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
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    Russ Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
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  • morgannut2
    morgannut2 Posts: 4,293 ✭
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    Good point Russ: If I were her husband I'd have beat the artist with an ugly stick!!image
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  • BillJones
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    It almost makes the Suzie B. dollar look handsome. image

    Just another example of how the Kennedys have more political influence than they should.
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  • ccex
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    << <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?"
    "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - Hanlon's Razor
  • 19Lyds
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    A-r-r-g-g-h-h! image
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  • longtimecollector
    longtimecollector Posts: 2,369 ✭✭
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    Looks like CCW AFTER THE MAKEOVER !!!!!!
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  • coinkat
    coinkat Posts: 24,542 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Its one coin... get over it. And if this commemorative helped with the Special Olympics in any way, then it served its purpose.

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  • ldhair
    ldhair Posts: 7,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Ok.
    Larry

  • MrEureka
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  • GoYankees
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    Isn't that Ahnold's mother-in-law???
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  • LanLord
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    Cruel man, cruel
  • Newkid
    Newkid Posts: 312
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    If her hair was braided she would look like the indian on the front
    of a buffalo nickel.
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  • Jdurg
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    She looks like Jamie Farr, that guy who played Max Klinger on M.A.S.H. image
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  • Coinhusker1
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    << <i>image

    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!!
  • Coinhusker1
    Coinhusker1 Posts: 3,560 ✭
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    << <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.
  • WANNABEDEALER
    WANNABEDEALER Posts: 156 ✭
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    That is a WUC, Worlds Ugliest Coin

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