tommyd, that is a beautiful coin.

The elusive 1939 DDR -- doubled "MONTICELLO" & "FIVE CENTS"

Well I like 'em all..........

One of my most beautiful coins.. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.....

My favourite today however would be this one...
I love Die cracks

Here are a few reverse toned Morgans.....

Im glad the SBA came up, I like it though some refer to it as the ugliest coin in US history... even when it is all shiny and new.



What happened to that little lady?

-Bobby

The SBA (IMO, admittedly) isn't even close to the ugliest coin in U.S. history. But it was replaced by the 2nd ugliest dollar coin (and 3rd ugliest overall) in history!

Jim

Well i agree with you. I've never really considered the SBA much, but it's definately not ugly.

Ugly to me is those Matron Head cents, they do pick some real mingers to put on the obverse. Oh then there's the Fluffalo Nickels and the Jeffs, and the Sacs. I'm not overtly keen on any of the seated Liberty stuff (it ain't ugly at all, they just don't look American to me, i think Switzerland).

Oh jeeze i thought i'd seen everything until i turned to the Gold produced between 1813-1839... yeuk. Just like the Matron head copper, nasty. You wouldn't want to meet her on a dark alley, then again the light of a well lit one wouldn't do her any favours neither.


Jim you must be referring to the Morgans. (Or was it the Ikes?) I forget.

I firmly believe that the Morgan dollar is BY FAR the ugliest obverse design in U.S. history. ( The reverse is okay but not enough to overcome the obverse.) The Lincoln cent ranks second on my ugly scale simply because of the vastly mythologized and over-rated man honored. Again, I like the reverse--wheat and memorial both--but cannot countenance honoring a tyrant like Lincoln.

I was hoo-hum about the SBA's design. (But hated the idea of a dollar coin.) The more I am forced to look at Saccies, however, the better the SBA looks to me.

Have you seen, what has been referred to as, Gasparro's original intention for the small dollar coin?

Link to pics of that design (and a nice site as well)

Although I am not a big fan of the "retro" school of design, I think this would have been a nice coin and maybe, just maybe, would have paved the way... back

The SBA and SAC are real nice...as commemoratives.

Oh my God that is hideous. What has that Liberty been smoking? She looks like she should go into rehab. And the hair! Member of the Addams family?

I thought the Sac was bad but not after seeing that.

I agree with you - it is truly a BEAUTIFUL coin and a terrible shame that it was, apparently, usurped by the SBA - but alas, not everyone shares our sense of asthetics *sigh*

That Jeff is just a token, but does it somewhere say it's not a legit coin?

or is it completely other size than a 5 cents coin?

Other wise one could slap it on the counter with the obverse up, hoping nobody would notice.....

It is the same size and it doesn't have COPY or anything on it. I am not sure it has to since the design was never struck. It is also silver and not nickel so the bullion value is greater than a nickel, I imagine..

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Stu, 2 of your photoes above DO NOT match the title thread.

First, no gold coin--simply because of the metal of which it is made--can be considered to be pretty

Second, no Lincoln cent--by virtue of the man represented by the obverse--can ever be considered pretty.








We now return you to your normally scheduled thread on pretty coins.


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Gold is certainly my least favorite coin metal of the big four (Copper, Silver, Nickel and Gold) but I do love that design. And any nice, brown, copper coin is automatically pretty. I'd be a fan of the Shriver commem if I could find a nice EF copper one.

[attachmentid=177]I just got Lance Armstrong winning the tour de france in 2003
proof and max 5000 and certificate
I like the finish of these coins

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Take it away, i repent...

Well it's not as bad as that incuse indian.

Nickel's my least favourite of those four. Copper is in third.

As for gold and silver i like them about the same. I like gold cos well it's a one of a kind metal, alot of metals are 'silver'. But i like silver because it's got a nice ring to it. Actually if you drop a gold coin from a height you'll notice it sounds similar.

Tin's my favourite. Tin coins are out of this world!

Well, I like the incluse indian.
I also love the Sac Dollar, so what the hell do I know about coins!!

Beauty is in the eye of the coin holder.

You people need to learn to take pics big enough to look at.

Here's one I just got in the mail yesterday.



Size corrected in order to be politically correct. No computer user left behind.

I don't know if you can call this pretty or not since it has that big fingerprint on it.

Nice die-break through UNITED on the two-cent piece...

Maybe you will like this one better...

Some might cosider 'dipping' that three-cent silver...

Great coins and great pics. I certainly wish I had the capability to take pics like that. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to have either coin, but the 2 center would be my first choice.

Now now now Aetheling...
Not nice casting stones across the pond at American coinage.
I believe you Brits have minted a dreaded coin or two in your day...
Say anything with old bug eyes George the 3rd cursed enough to have him on the Obverse, or what was the name of that other chap... Oh yes, Winston. I think you call them Churchills.
Remember, stone chucking in not a family value

Love those toned trimes!

If you like die breaks...


1820 cent from the Randall hoard

or die clashes...

1817/3 half dollar

Ungh, Ungh, ungh...

Or a pretty "coin" which isn't a coin...

One of the best looking contemporary counterfeit bust halves I have ever seen.

But you'll note i don't collect that junk. Churchill's are hideous and should never have been minted.

As for the George III post 1816 stuff that's the work of Bendetto Pistrucci so what do you expect? He was less interested in making the design nice, but he was more interested in making it striking. He often went over the top with things. If he were alive now he'd probably be one of the minimalist modern 'artists' that chuck a pile of stones in the centre of the flor and call it artistic expression. I call it a pile of stones whichever way you look at it.

If you think his George III stuff is hideous you should sample some of his other work, namely a certain George IV farthing.

I'm also not keen on any of the obverse of British coinge issued since 1985, i hate the 5p, the reverse commemoratives are forced and are total drivel. Did you see that stupid 2002 £5 coin? A child of 7 could have drawn that and submitted it.

Then there was that Cordial Entende £5 coin for 2004 another pile of trash.

Wreath reverse crowns are naff, as is most of the coinage produced since the mid 1920s. The Edward VII and George V obverses aren't all that great either, they are a graders worst nightmare.

The 1977 crown was particularly bad too. Anything else i forget? Oh yeah Henry VIII old head coinage and Edward VI base issue coinages are pretty nasty in the scheme of things.

Most of the other modern British coins i'm luke warm to. So i think the Brits are rivaling the Usians for crap designs. Although let it be noted we haven't gone to spaghetti hair just yet.

Which goes down well with us dialuppers. You're pictures are too large for my connection to cope with. I couldn't even wait for the proper "quote" button to load. Well i'm not waiting 10 minutes.

I am on ADSL but because of room restrictions my screen is only 15 inch
so with favourites open I only see three quaters of the coin
and scrolling keeps it at another three quarters

I thought that reverse was rather good, especially when compared to the other spate of £5 coins.

That's one of the most dramatic die cracks that I have ever seen

Agreed....looks like Barbed wire going arond the coin...truly spectacular......is it for sale?

RGT, if you attach the images instead of embedding them in your post, it's up to the viewer to download it or not. you get a small thumbnail at the bottom of your post and clicking that will bring up the original image.