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I was looking at the January 8th issue of Numismatic News today. The 2008 designs are shown on the cover. They look hideous!! Not sure if I spelled that right. What do yall think?
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2008, 06:29:34 AM » |
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Have not seen the designs so cannot comment.
Can you scan the pages for us to view
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2008, 07:17:00 AM » |
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They look hideous!! Not sure if I spelled that right. What do yall think? I think you've spelled "hideous" correctly.  Oh. you mean the dollars.  US Mint site - dollar release schedule. Hmmm. Let's just say, those guys were lucky the US Mint didn't design their election posters. Otherwise, we might have been putting the other guy's pictures on those coins. |
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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2008, 07:23:59 AM » |
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Well....I do not know about hideous....but they definatley have a serious look on there faces.
If that is the way they looked then we just have to accept it.
I for one will still collect them.
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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2008, 07:28:03 AM » |
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Only attractive females belong on coins, not pickled presidents.
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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2008, 08:25:17 AM » |
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They're an insult. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were real leaders. That's why they are made to look so feeble or comical. Our so called leaders in D.C can't ever hope to fill their shoes. They in fact don't even have the capacity to amount to a pimple on George Washington's butt.
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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2008, 09:13:21 AM » |
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They're an insult. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were real leaders. That's why they are made to look so feeble or comical. Our so called leaders in D.C can't ever hope to fill their shoes. They in fact don't even have the capacity to amount to a pimple on George Washington's butt.
Better watch it, there used to be a joke in the USSR about such things, talking trash about the leaders, was like divulging state secrets and should be punished  |
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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2008, 10:48:23 AM » |
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The Presidential dollars are no more than polished up versions of the Mint's Presidential medallion program which has gone on for years. As a matter of fact, when it all began, they were going to use the same designs! And, as you all know, they were butt ugly and that fact brought an uproar from collectors. The Mint decided against using their old designs and went with new butt ugly based on the old butt ugly.
As I have said for years and years, put the politicians on our paper currency and do something constructive with our coinage. We don't need dead Presidents on everything and, quite frankly, I think the U.S. has much more to offer on these tiny billboards that travel the world!
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« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2008, 05:24:57 PM » |
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The 2008 coins are no more hideous than the 2007 ones.
I still like to collect them all, but they're not the best series of coins I have seen.
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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2008, 06:14:08 PM » |
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G'day.
If it were not for the generosity of several State-side members of the Forum,
I would not have any of these dollars in my collection.
As I am not a serious collector of US coin I will not be seeking expand my current Presidential collection.
I must agree with the general consensus, they are not the greatest art pieces of the coin world. They seem to lack depth in in facial expression and perhaps a certain finess of detail.
regards,
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« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2008, 12:40:59 PM » |
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Dear AdamL: I beg to differ with you. I collect 'UGLY DOLLARS' Please send me a ROLL OF each of them. In front of their sacrifice and service to a Great Nation, the face, design, ugliness DOES NOT MATTER. HAD THEY ALIVE TO DAY, THEY WILL LOOK 'BETTER THAN ME' I always appreciate new designs of U.S.Coins Kind regards George
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« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2008, 03:06:40 AM » |
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Its nothing against those presidents, or people who are collecting the dollars. I just couldn't beleive how the ones for this year looked. I mean, Andrew Jackson looks incredibly ugly on the coin. I don't think he was that ugly in real life. He's definately not as ugly on the 20 dollar bill.
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« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2008, 03:38:38 AM » |
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Hi folks! I have to agree with longnine009, most of our leaders today (democrat, republican, or whatever) "AIN'T WORTH 10 CENTS", and I will say the same for the JUNK the US Mint has been putting out the last couple of decades-J-U-N-K!!! That's why I collect mostly foreign coins and currency. There's so much nicer stuff out there to collect than the junky (ugly?) coins we have to use every day. Also about Andrew Jackson: he sure ain't no pretty-boy Floyd, but methinks the mint could do a better job of portraying one of our greatest presidents! Nuff said!  |
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« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2008, 03:38:58 AM » |
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Its nothing against those presidents, or people who are collecting the dollars. I just couldn't beleive how the ones for this year looked. I mean, Andrew Jackson looks incredibly ugly on the coin. I don't think he was that ugly in real life. He's definately not as ugly on the 20 dollar bill.
He was an ugly person in his approach at government. He is not deserving of being on a coin, a $20 bill, or a $10 bill as he was in 1914. He is more suited to being a target in a loo than anything else. This is a man who flaunted the separation of powers in the government and basically told the US Supreme Court to shove it. If you have more query on this, look up "Trail of Tears". |
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