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To: Jim Noble
It is certainly possible to mint $1 and $2 coins successfully, and even sometimes beautifully. Canada and the UK both have done so.

But the US mint is sunk in both wokeness and ugliness, and unless a new Auguste St. Gaudens or AA Weinmann shows up, we are kind of screwed.

Also, Hermon Atkins MacNeil, who designed the Standing Liberty quarter


66 posted on 09/20/2023 8:53:53 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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To: COBOL2Java
The problem with Standing Liberty was its poor relief. The coins wore down very easily.

My late father said that as teenagers his generation would stroke Lady Liberty's bare breast because that was as close as they were going to get to the real one.

I call it the Janet Jackson quarter.

73 posted on 09/20/2023 9:49:42 AM PDT by Publius
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