timmy g. has picked the 2010 cent reverse.
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......whatta you think?
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Lance.
<< <i>Ugh. It's like something you'd see on a college pennant or a HS graduation ring.
Lance. >>
I knew it would happen.
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We now will have shield cents to collect.....
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I think the design is incorrect for reasons I have listed before. It contradicts many other examples of U. S. coinage. However, I plan to keep mum now, and see if they actually make them this way.
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Or this one:
Or even this one:
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
I believe the "shield cent" will look better in hand, as a coin, than it will as a pencil sketch.
Its symbolism is simplistic (not necessarily a bad thing). It lacks aesthetic appeal.
At least it is not a building!!!
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I don't care for the design at all.
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<< <i>Don't care for it. >>
Agree. Ugly and uninspired.
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Kind of a small denomination mid 19th century pattern feel to it.
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.......still waiting for the alleged minor change to the obverse. SUPPOSEDLY to be very close
to lincoln obverse of 1909.
I knew it would happen.
<< <i>Acceptable, however, I preferred the eagle. Cheers, RickO >>
Brenner's original wheat ears are positively futuristic by comparison.
When I sat in a conference room at the Philadelphia mint, in 2004, as a designer the Mint's Artistic Infusion Program in its inaugural year, Director Holsman-Fore told us that the coinage of a society should reflect its ideals & aspirations to all societies in the future... well folks, I think that embarrassment of a design proves that such sentiment is a double-edged sword. Truly the only nice thing I can say about this design, is that in a 1,000 years from now, seeing it stamped in low relief on whatever scrap metal planchets the mint is uses for these coins, all because its denomination had long outlived its usefulness as a monetary instrument and only ever existed to placate a public that insisted on remaining ignorant about inflation & other economic realties, it will communicate these and other unflattering sentiments about our artistically impotent culture quite nicely.
To clarify, I mean now disrespect to whichever artist designed this - I know that they were working to satisfy a requirement. If there is an upside to design-by-committee, it is that there is plenty of blame to go around!
From Brenner, to Gasparo, to this... from Herman MacNeil to Janet Jackson, America is actually moving backwards.
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<< <i>Wow. Simply wow. What a piece of garbage! What year is this? 1859? Except you know what? The IHC reverse, the 2-cent, the trime, and the Sheild nickel all used shields with greater whimsy than that abomination.
Brenner's original wheat ears are positively futuristic by comparison.
When I sat in a conference room at the Philadelphia mint, in 2004, as a designer the Mint's Artistic Infusion Program in its inaugural year, Director Holsman-Fore told us that the coinage of a society should reflect its ideals & aspirations to all societies in the future... well folks, I think that embarrassment of a design proves that such sentiment is a double-edged sword. Truly the only nice thing I can say about this design, is that in a 1,000 years from now, seeing it stamped in low relief on whatever scrap metal planchets the mint is uses for these coins, all because its denomination had long outlived its usefulness as a monetary instrument and only ever existed to placate a public that insisted on remaining ignorant about inflation & other economic realties, it will communicate these and other unflattering sentiments about our artistically impotent culture quite nicely.
To clarify, I mean now disrespect to whichever artist designed this - I know that they were working to satisfy a requirement. If there is an upside to design-by-committee, it is that there is plenty of blame to go around!
From Brenner, to Gasparo, to this... from Herman MacNeil to Janet Jackson, America is actually moving backwards. >>
What's your opinion of the LP-15 - Eagle reverse?
I think that it would have worked well on the 19mm planchet . . . OH WELL ! ! !
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John
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<< <i>From Brenner, to Gasparo, to this... from Herman MacNeil to Janet Jackson, America is actually moving backwards. >>
FWIW, I would rather see the cent discontinued ... even though I collect Lincolns, enough is enough.
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<< <i>Acceptable, however, I preferred the eagle. Cheers, RickO >>
I just hope that the mint will produce a P & D roll set for distribution. Otherwise it might be a while before I find any for my Dansco.
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<< <i>Wow. Simply wow. What a piece of garbage! What year is this? 1859? Except you know what? The IHC reverse, the 2-cent, the trime, and the Sheild nickel all used shields with greater whimsy than that abomination.
Brenner's original wheat ears are positively futuristic by comparison.
When I sat in a conference room at the Philadelphia mint, in 2004, as a designer the Mint's Artistic Infusion Program in its inaugural year, Director Holsman-Fore told us that the coinage of a society should reflect its ideals & aspirations to all societies in the future... well folks, I think that embarrassment of a design proves that such sentiment is a double-edged sword. Truly the only nice thing I can say about this design, is that in a 1,000 years from now, seeing it stamped in low relief on whatever scrap metal planchets the mint is uses for these coins, all because its denomination had long outlived its usefulness as a monetary instrument and only ever existed to placate a public that insisted on remaining ignorant about inflation & other economic realties, it will communicate these and other unflattering sentiments about our artistically impotent culture quite nicely.
To clarify, I mean now disrespect to whichever artist designed this - I know that they were working to satisfy a requirement. If there is an upside to design-by-committee, it is that there is plenty of blame to go around!
From Brenner, to Gasparo, to this... from Herman MacNeil to Janet Jackson, America is actually moving backwards. >>
What's your opinion of the LP-15 - Eagle reverse?
I think that it would have worked well on the 19mm planchet . . . OH WELL ! ! !
Regards,
John >>
LP-15?
Honestly, the eagle looks like a cartoon to me. Every feather is rendered the same way & from the same perspective, even though this is not how they would appear on a bird, and its posture nor beak seem anatomically correct for a bald eagle. Also, IMHO, I see no harmony between the bird, its scale, and the size of the coin. Lastly, there is a 216 year history of not putting Eagles on the reverses of cents in this country, and reserving such a motif for coins of higher denomination - I have always found this practice apropos somehow, and would have been sad to see it change for no real reason.
If it were up to me, I think I would have put an acorn on the back of the cent. I believe oak trees can be found in every state in the continental U.S. - acorns make subliminal references to American themes such as the Charter Oak, the Oak in the U.S.S. Constitution, & the oak that the desks in the capitol are made from, and they make allegorical references to the notion that in this country, even the must humble seeds can bring forth grand ventures, as well as the idea of thrift (squirrels saving acorns.) An acorn would resonate with both the scale & color of the cent, and could be rendered in a very tactile & interesting way even given the low relief of today's coins.
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<< <i>........... not to mention that the designers & approvers of this design are NUTS!!
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Back to the cent design, it's simple, which is good, and emblematic.
I like the design, IMO the one cent ribbon should go. One cent should be along the bottom near the rim.
scott
For the record, I don't hate the new design, even if it was not my first choice. I liked the one rejected for political reasons. But we are such a politically correct society that one had no chance once the likeness to the pfenning was revealed.
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