SAE's Need Redesigned
 

Anyone think the SAE's need a facelift? The Canadian Mapleleaf is a favorite of mine. And it blows away the design of Americas. I guess its just my opinion, but maybe its time to do a different design already.

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If anything needs a facelift, it's the old hag on the reverse of Canadian coins!
Why don't they just use her crown or one of her personal effects to represent her...a box of Depends, jar of Ponds cream, tube of Polident, First Allert signal pendant, a cane or walker, large underwear and support hose...something, anything else to represent her other then that droopy bagged out face!

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The peace dollar is the most stunning bust peice coin in american history.

I would love to see then bring that coin back.


T

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I don't care who you are, that's some funny you know what, EE_! :D

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I would like to see a new SAE, this issue is beautiful and it would be hard to beat or equal, but I would like to see an additional issue...like the mint did with the new Buffalo gold, they still produce the GAE, they just added a purer .999 coin...make a silver 99.99 like the Silver Maple and we're got a world class deal going.

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I agree. I love those coins, just wish they had the silver content of an ASE.
A new peace dollar would be a wonderful change.

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I like the current design of the SAE. I would prefer it didn't say "In God we trust", but I'm probably in the minority there.

I do not like the St Gaudens design on the pre '33 gold coins.

And for those of you who don't like the image of Queen Elizabeth on the Maple Leaf, just wait until they put Prince Charles' mug on there.

:smokin:

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Some coins look nice and some look crummy. But I haven't met two people who agree on which is which.

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I say cancel the series and mint a new coin. Then the ones I have will become elusive and fetch a "numismatic" premium.

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"...but I would like to see an additional issue..."

Agree. Standing Liberty (quarter) obverse
Walking Liberty (half) reverse

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Then Prince William ascends the throne...I wonder if he'll retain his looks at 63.

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Former queen's guard, are ya?

It's your opinion, let's just stop there.

Who the F puts a friggin leaf on anything that humans use?

Canadians, that's who, nobody else on the whole planet.

Why? Because the cold up there froze the synapse.

My opinion; leaves belong on things such as toilet paper, and power yard equipment.

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You sound a bit grumpy tonight 'Horn.

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Next, they'll want to replace lady liberty with Palin.

Yeah, Got caught in the rain without a hat.

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I would buy that coin. :wink:

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I would buy the Palin coin too!!!!!

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The standing Liberty Quarter is my favorite coin of all time.

Standing Liberty on one side....Soaring Eagle on the reverse.


As far as British coins, I'm too paranoid to use anything with the queen's image. Have you SEEN the bogus laws that dictate her actions?

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They should make 10 ounce coins with peace dollar design, that come with a proof like finish and hard capsule.

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How bout a Palin Pez head Silver dispenser dispensing silver colored candies from twixt her big shiny teeth.

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Mine might get sticky too fast :( :tongue_ma:

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Surely the Brits aren't claiming the right to send troops into Pakistan with or without the agreement of the Pakistani guvmint are they?

TS might HTF if they did that. :bear_tongue:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7611287.stm

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I think the design on the ASE's is beautiful, but I would like to see something "new". That would require someone to design something worth putting on a coin, and then for the mint to actually accept the design.

Unfortunately, it seems that Mint Engraver's are just not what they used to be. Personally I think many of the modern coins, including about 95% of all the state quarters display the kind of art you would expect to see on the free pamphlets they give away at rest stops.

Notice to get any real attention and praise out of coins the mint has to reintoruce a design from the past. Buffalo.... St. Gaudens...... Walking Liberty..... Most of the other stuff they produce is comercial crap they know people will buy.

Have you seen the designs for the new pennies?

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The woman depicted on the fist bust coins was Anne Bingham..

Anne Bingham's Life

Anne Bingham, nee Anne Willing, was born in 1764 and lived most of her life in Philadelphia.

Considered to be the most beautiful woman of her day, she was a wealthy, well-connected socialite, the oldest child of Thomas Willing, a judge and merchant who became mayor of Philadelphia.

As a 16-year-old, in 1780, Anne married William Bingham, a successful merchant who would become a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. William was 12 years older than young Anne, an age differential common in those days.

William and Anne Bingham pursued lives of wealth and influence. Both were highly educated, with Anne having studied English, foreign languages, music, and other subjects considered appropriate for urbane young ladies of her time. William owned substantial property, with large estates in Pennsylvania, Maine, and New York.

William Bingham was criticized for using his wife's beauty to help advance his career. William and Anne were both were criticized for their aristocratic and anglophilic leanings. In 1795 a mob attacked their mansion near Third and Spruce Streets in Philadelphia, which was modeled after the Duke of Manchester's London residence. The mob was protesting the commercial concessions to the British in the Jay Treaty, an agreement with England negotiated by John Jay, the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.


William and Anne Bingham traveled widely, among other places to Bermuda, where she's buried today, to London, where she met the man who would create the Draped Bust image, and to Paris, which she loved.

Writing to Anne Bingham from Paris in a letter dated February 7, 1787, Thomas Jefferson tried to persuade her that "the tranquil pleasures of America [were] preferable to the empty bustle of Paris." In Paris you're consumed with ennui, with no "object beyond the present moment," Jefferson wrote.

"In America, on the other hand, the society of your husband, the fond cares for the children, the arrangements of the house, the improvements of the grounds, fill every moment with a healthy and an useful activity. Every exertion is encouraging, because to present amusement, it joins the promise of some future good."

Anne Bingham was no idle woman of leisure. She conducted social salons for leaders of the newly born United States and openly expressed her own views about matters of public interest. Though not as well known as Abigail Adams, she was one of the country's first feminists, believing that women in the U.S. should play an active role in politics, as did women at the time in France.

In a 1787 letter back to Thomas Jefferson, she wrote, "The Women of France interfere in the politics of the Country, and often give a decided Turn to the Fate of Empires...[T]hey have obtained that Rank of Consideration in society, which the Sex are intitled to...[Female Americans] are therefore bound in Gratitude to admire and revere them, for asserting our Privileges."

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Leaves on toilet paper? Sounds pretty rough if you ask me.... :wink: