Advisory body does not like any of the Hawaii quarter designs

Michigan · February 3, 2007 3:01AM

HONOLULU (AP) _ Five proposed designs have been submitted by Hawaii for the 50th state quarter. But a federal design advisory body doesn't like any of them.

Three designs submitted by the Hawaii Commemorative Quarter Advisory Commission feature Kamehameha the Great, the unifier of the Hawaiian islands.

One features a surfer and another a female hula dancer.

But Thomas Luebke of the U-S Commission of Fine Arts says panel members thought the five designs were too cluttered and visually confusing.

He says the commission would like to see Diamond Head as the main feature on the coin because the extinct volcano is a recognizable landscape.

But another advisory group, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, says it favors keeping King Kamehameha on the coin.

Both groups are advising the treasury secretary as he selects a design to send back to Hawaii for local approval.

jayboxx · February 3, 2007 3:08AM

Why don't they let the people of the states decide which they like best?

numisma · February 3, 2007 3:08AM

They should use the same obverse as the 1883 Hawaiian quarter.

fcloud · February 3, 2007 3:12AM

It is pretty amazing with all the ugly state quarters out there, they wait until #50 of 50 to start making their objections.

19Lyds · February 3, 2007 3:19AM

<< It is pretty amazing with all the ugly state quarters out there, they wait until #50 of 50 to start making their objections. >>

DUH!

I wonder what the designs look like? Whatever they were they gotta be better than Wyoming...............

No wait, Wyoming isn't cluttered. At all.

I either can't type or I can't spell..................

notwilight · February 3, 2007 3:22AM

<< It is pretty amazing with all the ugly state quarters out there, they wait until #50 of 50 to start making their objections. >>

I don't think that is true. I'm from MO and but Iive in CA. A friend back there kept me informed of quite a bit of hoopla over the design. The artist/supporters of the rejected design were so upset that they had 10,000 of them privately minted and gave them away in protest or something like that. I have one of the rejects somewhere. I didn't really have an opinion.

The hawaiian desire for a simpler design probably reflects the fact that the review is being done while the Montana Quarter is featured on the mint website. I think a lot of people like it's stark simplicity so when they look at a complicated design, they complain. If the classic texas commem was on the website now....

BobaFett72 · February 3, 2007 3:25AM

If they want the MOSt popular state quarter ever. They should put a topless Hula girl on it.

Moose1913 · February 3, 2007 3:27AM

MrSpud · February 3, 2007 3:32AM

I think the first 3 are cool myself, wouldn't mind any one of them

Burks · February 3, 2007 3:38AM

<< I think the first 3 are cool myself, wouldn't mind any one of them >>

I agree with the 3rd one as well. Very nice. Seems to represent Hawaii.

291fifth · February 3, 2007 3:39AM

The Hawaii designs, like most of the state quarter designs, are predictable, unimaginative, boring and lacking in any artistic merit. They look like the work of graphic designers and not artists.

StampAlarm · February 3, 2007 3:39AM

I don't see any clutter on any of the designs.

BobaFett72 · February 3, 2007 3:40AM

Maybe they could enhance them with scent of "hawaiian pizza"

410a · February 3, 2007 3:48AM

3 is the coolest of those designs. There is definetely something wrong with the Wyoming that silhouette of a horse is doing something to me. Maybe the dies will get polished and we can get a 3 legged colt.

Hugegut · February 3, 2007 3:48AM

SmallSizedGuy · February 3, 2007 3:57AM

I like the third reverse. None look too cluttered or confusing to me...

LindeDad · February 3, 2007 4:08AM

No to surfer Joe.

What does that last one say?

A combo of the girl on two and Diamond Head on three would work I think.

Kimchee · February 3, 2007 4:16AM

There may be political reasons why the panel is rejecting the King kamehameha design. #1 There is currently an open lawsuit of the US gov't vs. Kamehameha school here in Hawaii because you must be at least part Hawaiian to attend, and the US gov't is challenging the school's policy via the civil rights act. The school won the suit but the gov't will appeal.

#2- Putting King Kam's image on the coin would legitimize the fact that Hawaii was once a sovereign entity with its own government (which was a monarchy).

Sean

Moose1913 · February 3, 2007 4:20AM

<< What does that last one say? >>

The state motto, “Ua mau ke ea o ka ‘âina i ka pono,” meaning “The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness.”

RichieURich · February 3, 2007 5:34AM

I gotta agree with the COmmittee on this one, I don't like any of the designs either. I think the satire Hawaii quarter out there has a better design, and no I will not post a picture of it.

ziggy29 · February 3, 2007 5:36AM

<< Why don't they let the people of the states decide which they like best? >>

Deferring to the desires of the states pretty much died in 1865.

Michigan · February 3, 2007 5:38AM

No disrespect to the king but that thing he is wearing on his head makes him look like a space alien from Star Trek.

RegistryCoin · February 3, 2007 5:40AM

The one with Diamond Head works for me.

fcloud · February 3, 2007 5:43AM

Art can be complex. Just look at some of Picasso's works. There is a difference between cluttered and art. I would think the reason the mint so likes designs such as WO. They are simple to produce.

Wyoming--Plywood sign with no depth. Man, that is really mind challenging art!

Advisory body does not like any of the Hawaii quarter designs

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