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Do you look at your coins as art?

saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭
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Its the best question I could come up with.imageimage

I DEFINITELY do....
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    sTONERsTONER Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭
    definitely, looked at as art,, toned or notimage
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    saintgurusaintguru Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭


    << <i>definitely, looked at as art,, toned or notimage >>



    Is that just because you're stoned?image
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    ajiaajia Posts: 5,411 ✭✭✭
    Depends on the coin.....moderns I would generally say no. Just a profile plastered on a planchet.
    Walkers & SLQ and most other 'classics' definately yes.
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    sTONERsTONER Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>definitely, looked at as art,, toned or notimage >>



    Is that just because you're stoned?image >>

    only after 7.30 pm,,image
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    MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    Of course coins are art!!!

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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    Really nice ones - art.
    Crappy ones - just coins.
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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 25,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They can be looked at as art, but the real question is whether they represent good art or bad. In most cases the answer is going to be "bad."
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    dragondragon Posts: 4,548 ✭✭
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    LeianaLeiana Posts: 4,349 ✭
    Yes. image

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    MyqqyMyqqy Posts: 9,777 ✭
    More art..... image

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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

    My coins are historic art. How about that!

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    richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
    Yep.
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    CoinhogCoinhog Posts: 1,336


    << <i>Depends on the coin.....moderns I would generally say no. Just a profile plastered on a planchet.
    Walkers & SLQ and most other 'classics' definately yes. >>




    Some Modern commemoratives can definitely be classified as art, they are beautiful. then again, Some can be classified as cartoonish at best. Think clip artimage
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    BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,535 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes

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    CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,354 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Yes, Fine Art

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    JJMJJM Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭✭✭
    absolutly
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    techefftecheff Posts: 2,285
    more history than art...
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    ccrccr Posts: 2,446
    Some pieces of art tell a story. image Like with this, What the heck happened to deserve this fate? image

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    Ike is having a flashback. image

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    Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,285 ✭✭✭
    Yes, that's why I'm primarily a type collector.
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    NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,051 ✭✭✭✭✭
    YES!
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    BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,535 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Some pieces of art tell a story. image Like with this, What the heck happened to deserve this fate? image

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    Wow, talk about eye balls.
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    CoxeCoxe Posts: 11,139 ✭
    Depends on the plastic holder.

    LOL. Seriously, they are art in an odd way. Being mass produced, they tend to be in a way like lithograph prints. OTOH, there are aspects like toning that make a piece unique in an artistic way. As sculpture, proofs would be the artistic pinnacle of them. But I don't care for proofs. They and commemorative are non-coins in a way. I don't really see then as not coins, but they are not quite the same as business strikes. I think it is the history associated with them that is the draw for me and many (most?) others. For the US, the coins followed the ascent from a band of rebel colonies to the most sophisticated nation on earth. Older ones were handled by people who sacrificed with great uncertainty in the initial building of the nation, the westward expansion, ... Silver dollars are fascinating as one of the longest running scandals in our government, feverishly pumping them out by the billions for special interests with tremendous variation in quality. So many never went anywhere for a century. BRanch mint ones circulated. Same with gold. So they are portals to history and the natural obsessive set completion of an organized design (the art side) for me.
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    HadleydogHadleydog Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭
    Yup.
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    JulioJulio Posts: 2,501 ✭
    Sure. Andy Warhol made a soup can art; coins IMO beat a soup can any day. jws
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    dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We speak a lot about the aesthetics of particular issues here, their designs (St Gs v SBAs) as well as their eye appeal.

    Coins as art? Absolutely.

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    ABC123ABC123 Posts: 2,627
    Of course, Art is in the eye of the Holder !
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    atom48coinatom48coin Posts: 314
    Yes -- both art and craft.

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    ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭


    << <i>Sure. Andy Warhol made a soup can art; coins IMO beat a soup can any day. >>





    Art is a man's name. ---Andy Warhol
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,347 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Its the best question I could come up with.imageimage

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    +1 image
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes.

    In some cases it's good art and in some cases it's bad art but designs are always important to me.

    I prefer usually simplicity and lack of verbiage.
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 30,347 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oops, I guess that's +3, eh.
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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the engravers of the mint are artists than that means the U.S. Gomment is supporting the Arts.
    Everybody shhhhhhhhh!!!

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