Montana governor releases four state quarter designs
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HELENA Four potential designs for a new Montana quarter to be released early next year can be viewed on the governor's Web site.
Once the U-S Treasury approvals the designs, Montana residents will be able to vote on their favorite. Governor Schweitzer will pick the winner at the end of March.
Montana's four quarter designs include a bull elk, a bison skull, the state outline and one called the "Big Sky Country" design.
The bull elk quarter shows an elk and the sun rising over the horizon of the plains and mountains.
One has a bison skull at the center of the coin, with mountains in the background and the words "Big Sky Country."
The state outline fills one quarter design. Inside the outline, the west is filled with mountains tapering to the eastern Montana plains and the sun.
The final design has the words "Big Sky Country" are displayed over a mountain range, with a river emerging from the mountains and snaking down the plains.
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On the Net:
Montana quarter designs: http://www.governor.mt.gov/hottopics/mtquarters.asp
Once the U-S Treasury approvals the designs, Montana residents will be able to vote on their favorite. Governor Schweitzer will pick the winner at the end of March.
Montana's four quarter designs include a bull elk, a bison skull, the state outline and one called the "Big Sky Country" design.
The bull elk quarter shows an elk and the sun rising over the horizon of the plains and mountains.
One has a bison skull at the center of the coin, with mountains in the background and the words "Big Sky Country."
The state outline fills one quarter design. Inside the outline, the west is filled with mountains tapering to the eastern Montana plains and the sun.
The final design has the words "Big Sky Country" are displayed over a mountain range, with a river emerging from the mountains and snaking down the plains.
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On the Net:
Montana quarter designs: http://www.governor.mt.gov/hottopics/mtquarters.asp
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Since I do get to choose, I will stick with #4.
Bison Skull all the way...
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MT1 is OK but kind of looks like an insurance commercial.
MT3 - The state outline is very clip-arty. Yeech.
MT4 - The big sky is boring.
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<< <i>MT1 is OK but kind of looks like an insurance commercial.
LOL!!! Separated at birth, for sure.
MT3 is an abomination, of course.
Gotta go with MT2. I dig the skull! It's kind of an "after" pose from the Spanish Trail half dollar.
MT3 is just...ugly
and I don't like how "Big Sky Country" is written in MT4...
The elk is nice, but it isn't anywhere near as visually compelling or as Old West significant.
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MT 4 is silly. It would look ok without the words Big Sky Country, but then it would just be a strip of hills.
MT 1 is attreactive, and it tells us that Montana has elk.
MT 2 tells us they have dead buffalo as well. Hoof and Mouth disease? Frankly my first impression when I see it is that it is sime kind of religous vision. A giant buffalo skull appears in the sky over the mountains like a vengeful deity.
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#4 is probably better for today..
#1 is OK, but a little too busy.
I'm hoping for #2.
<< <i>Go for the skull. Do we have any coins in history with dead animal remains on them? Any of the experts out there know of one? I'm always in the mood for breaking new ground and I think this would do it. >>
Don't know about a coin with a dead animal on it but an obsolete
banknote pre civil war from Louisiana shows a hunter with a
dead deer strapped on the back of a horse.
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<< <i>Another vote for #1 but if you ever lived in Montana you would know it should be a herd of White Tails running away from you.
#4 is probably better for today.. >>
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Ya, I lived there. One's nice but reminds me of Hartford Insurance. The White Tails would be closer. Number 4 reminds me of the State best--looks like the Three Forks, or maybe Beaverhead River to the west.
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A State outline
or the billboard add
Tough choosing amongst those.
<< <i>Sure beats what Wyoming picked for there's, As a Wyoming native I think's sucks and lack any thinking. I like 1 or 2 but leaning to 2.
Dan >>
Why, what did wyoming pick for theirs?
#2 - Fave of the 4.
#3 - Strike 1: State outline, Strike 2: Another sunshine, Strike 3: Cartoonish
#4 - Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet to rescue his beloved rubber chicken from the clutches of the vile Mad Marty and his army of Tangaroa clones...
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Having a skull for a symbol is kinda creepy.
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Well, I guess I'm really not that negative about it, but as the series progresses the designes are becoming increasingly uninspired IMHO.
Every time a new batch of designs comes out I feel like I'm watching Conan O'Brien. Have you ever seen the segment he does with fake Statehood Quarter designs? The NBC art looks just like the real quarters. That should say something in itself.