Do you look at your coins as art?

saintguru · October 9, 2006 3:58AM

Its the best question I could come up with.

I DEFINITELY do....

sTONER · October 9, 2006 3:59AM

definitely, looked at as art,, toned or not

saintguru · October 9, 2006 4:02AM

<< definitely, looked at as art,, toned or not

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Is that just because you're stoned?

ajia · October 9, 2006 4:03AM

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.

sTONER · October 9, 2006 4:32AM

<< 

<< definitely, looked at as art,, toned or not

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Is that just because you're stoned?

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only after 7.30 pm,,

Myqqy · October 9, 2006 4:34AM

Of course coins are art!!!

mgoodm3 · October 9, 2006 4:34AM

Really nice ones - art.
Crappy ones - just coins.

291fifth · October 9, 2006 4:49AM

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."

dragon · October 9, 2006 4:50AM

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Leiana · October 9, 2006 4:51AM

Yes.

-Amanda

Myqqy · October 9, 2006 4:55AM

More art.....

Shamika · October 9, 2006 4:55AM

My coins are historic art. How about that!

richardshipp · October 9, 2006 4:58AM

Yep.

Coinhog · October 9, 2006 5:18AM

<< 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 art

Barndog · October 9, 2006 5:23AM

Yes

Cladiator · October 9, 2006 5:24AM

<< Yes, Fine Art

>>

JJM · October 9, 2006 5:39AM

absolutly

techeff · October 9, 2006 5:42AM

more history than art...

ccr · October 9, 2006 5:49AM

Some pieces of art tell a story.

Like with this, What the heck happened to deserve this fate?

Ike is having a flashback.

Steve27 · October 9, 2006 5:57AM

Yes, that's why I'm primarily a type collector.

NumisOxide · October 9, 2006 6:01AM

YES!

Barndog · October 9, 2006 6:09AM

<< Some pieces of art tell a story.

Like with this, What the heck happened to deserve this fate?

Wow, talk about eye balls.

Coxe · October 9, 2006 6:10AM

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.

Hadleydog · October 9, 2006 6:23AM

Yup.

Julio · October 9, 2006 6:24AM

Sure. Andy Warhol made a soup can art; coins IMO beat a soup can any day. jws

dpoole · October 9, 2006 6:33AM

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.

ABC123 · October 9, 2006 6:33AM

Of course, Art is in the eye of the Holder !

atom48coin · October 9, 2006 7:18AM

Yes -- both art and craft.

A

Clankeye · October 9, 2006 7:22AM

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

Art is a man's name. ---Andy Warhol

cladking · October 9, 2006 7:39AM

<< Its the best question I could come up with.

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+1

cladking · October 9, 2006 7:41AM

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.

cladking · October 9, 2006 7:42AM

Oops, I guess that's +3, eh.

Swampboy · October 9, 2006 7:48AM

If the engravers of the mint are artists than that means the U.S. Gomment is supporting the Arts.
Everybody shhhhhhhhh!!!

Do you look at your coins as art?

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