MINT DIRECTOR WANTS REDISGNED LADY LIBERTY TO EMBODY TIGER WOOD'S AND JESSICA ALBA'S LOVE CHILD
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Apparently, Lady Liberty is an old hag according to the Mint. Reported in the October 08 Coin World, Mint Director Edmund Moy stated in a interview he would like to see Tiger Wood's and Jessica Alba's love child embody a modern Lady Liberty. Sorry, but I found the refrence of a redisgned modern Liberty to a bas**** love child rather amusing. 
<< <i>Liberty should also shed her Western roots.
"[The old ideal of] Liberty is a very Caucasian figure. Liberty is no longer a Western Civilization concept," Moy said, in an interview after the speech. "What would the love child of Tiger Woods and Jessica Alba look like grown up? That’s the face I see for Liberty." >>
Moy also refrenced a proposed neo-Renaissance for coin designs to embody the american spirit.
<< <i>United States Mint Director Edmund Moy recently made a bold, public call for a neo-Renaissance of America’s coinage and medal design.
"As Mint director, one of the things I’d like to leave behind is to be known as a catalyst for a new Renaissance, a neo-Renaissance of coinage design that would reflect the best and the future of the new millennium instead of being rooted in doing redesigns of the past," Moy said Sept. 19.
Moy made the statement during the keynote address of the 30 th FIDEM Art Medal World Congress in Colorado Springs, Colo. FIDEM is the acronym for the Fédération Internationale de la Médaille (in English, the International Federation of the Medal).
Moy said this dedication to artistically enhancing United States coinage design is one plank in a fiveyear strategic plan he is crafting, along with senior management and labor teams from the Mint, to determine the Mint’s future path.
"As we try to summarize everything we want to do in a simple sentence that would encapsulate our vision for where the Mint will head, it reads this: to embody the American spirit through the creation of our nation’s coins and medals," Moy said, noting that this statement was agreed upon by those at the Mint. >>
<< <i>Liberty should also shed her Western roots.
"[The old ideal of] Liberty is a very Caucasian figure. Liberty is no longer a Western Civilization concept," Moy said, in an interview after the speech. "What would the love child of Tiger Woods and Jessica Alba look like grown up? That’s the face I see for Liberty." >>
Moy also refrenced a proposed neo-Renaissance for coin designs to embody the american spirit.
<< <i>United States Mint Director Edmund Moy recently made a bold, public call for a neo-Renaissance of America’s coinage and medal design.
"As Mint director, one of the things I’d like to leave behind is to be known as a catalyst for a new Renaissance, a neo-Renaissance of coinage design that would reflect the best and the future of the new millennium instead of being rooted in doing redesigns of the past," Moy said Sept. 19.
Moy made the statement during the keynote address of the 30 th FIDEM Art Medal World Congress in Colorado Springs, Colo. FIDEM is the acronym for the Fédération Internationale de la Médaille (in English, the International Federation of the Medal).
Moy said this dedication to artistically enhancing United States coinage design is one plank in a fiveyear strategic plan he is crafting, along with senior management and labor teams from the Mint, to determine the Mint’s future path.
"As we try to summarize everything we want to do in a simple sentence that would encapsulate our vision for where the Mint will head, it reads this: to embody the American spirit through the creation of our nation’s coins and medals," Moy said, noting that this statement was agreed upon by those at the Mint. >>
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Id love to see the "tails" design
give her a tummy tuck, some botox...
or get a young hottie on the coin...that will increase collecting
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<< <i>lady liberty looks like a middle aged housewife with too many miles.
give her a tummy tuck, some botox...
or get a young hottie on the coin...that will increase collecting
Looks like Moy has the same idea:
<< <i>New vision of Liberty
Moy seeks to use the reverse of the medal to introduce a new concept of what Liberty looks like today.
"Lady Liberty back then represented a beautiful woman, beautiful as defined to the standards of the early 20 th century," Moy said. "So let’s just say I’ve asked John [Mercanti] and his team to think about Liberty a little bit on a diet, and put her on a treadmill, because I view the modern Liberty as having a much smaller, more muscular presence in today’s world."
In regards to Liberty’s flowing robe, Moy suggests something closer to the simplicity and elegance of a Vera Wang dress. >>
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<< <i>I would prefer that I get to have the love child with alba..... >>
Oh?
Sorta take one for the team?
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I further suspect that Mr. Moy does not get out in public in the USA very much if he thinks Modern Liberty has a smaller more muscular look in today's world. Walk down any street in a US City and you will find both men and women (kids, teens, young adults, middle agers and seniors) who are not small and muscular dominate the landscape. So many of the folks in the USA are large and fat
<< <i>tiger + wife + pic of kid.. looks like tiger just popped it out and the wife is assisting him. odd >>
I mean as long as we're rewriting history to fit modern politically correct thought, why only take partial measures? After all, Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson were of FAR greater import to the development of this country than the racist b*stard founding fathers...
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The devices and lettering of coins of old had a hand-engraved element to them - not perfect, but beautiful to the eye because of it. Much of what's done now has a computer assisted/generated look to it - too perfect and bordering on the bland and cartoonish. If the mint let the artists work, I'd suspect that we'd have some wonderful designs in short order.
<< <i>MINT DIRECTOR WANTS REDISGNED LADY LIBERTY TO EMBODY TIGER WOOD'S AND JESSICA ALBA'S LOVE CHILD >>
We tried that already...remember the Susan B. Anthony dollar?
At least Moy didn't go the other way....a love child between Rosanne and Crosby.
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