Hang the controversy. Do you like "motto" or "no motto" better on OLD coins?

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• mhammerman Posts: 3,769 ✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 1:15AM

  I do like the classic head $5's and $10's but my favorite one is the '08 $10 indian NM because it's rarer and I don't have one yet. The field on the reverse if just huge and it really lets the color of the coin come out. As a passing thought...why do they always refer to the '07 $10 indians as NM...that's the only kind minted but they always call them '07 $10 NM. Things that make me go hummmmmmmm.

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• RYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 1:15AM

  

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• topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 1:26AM

  mhammerman.....because we're NUTS! Same thing as a 1922 "PEACE" dollar. Is there another type?
  
  It's ingrained. All...hobbies....need to overcomplicate issues so we can have something to say other than "I want another one."
  
  I just got an 1860-o ....NO MOTTO....dollar.
  
  

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• mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 1:27AM

  On higher grade coins more open fields look better.

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• fc Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 1:32AM

  i think the motto clutters up the coin.
  
  jesus would blush seeing the word god on money.
  
  give to ceasar what is ceasars... or however it went

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• ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 1:32AM

  No major preference in general, but I love no motto Seated coins that have no big marks in that big reverse field above the eagle!

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• TheRaven Posts: 4,149 ✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 1:33AM

  I would say the No Motto coins, because they are more difficult to get and I don't have any.....
  
  I don't think that it should be taken off of our coins today with that said however. Today's coins are basically ugly so it don't matter.

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• topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 1:37AM

  RYK.....I'm glad you took down that picture. There was a possiblity of violating the "separation of "o" and state" there.
  
  

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• topstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 23, 2005 2:05AM

  
  
  << <i>I don't think that it should be taken off of our coins today with that said however. Today's coins are basically ugly so it don't matter. >>
  
  
  
  You CAN'T be saying that you think the old allegorical and bold depictions of Liberty and fierce eagles is better than a suffragette in a bonnet or a woman with a kid lookin over her shoulder.
  
  
  
  

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