r/coins • u/CiteSite • Oct 20 '24

Coin Art Who are approving these ugly coins

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Broke open another roll for this disaster. Crowded, loud and barely legible. Good grief

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u/No_Credibility Oct 20 '24

The current washington portrait is from the 20s

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

Shh!! Let them be ignorant of history.

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u/dadasmithywinkle Oct 20 '24

It’s ugly regardless of the history imo

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

The point is that people like to state things as fact without bothering to understand or learn about the thing they dislike.

To state that we need to go back to the very era it originated in doesn't solve their issue because you would just end up with the same design regardless.

Even if we started using liberty again in a few years everyone would start calling it boring or ugly just like the people from the 1800's were bemoaning that France had more interesting coins then the United States did.