Comments on: Great Coin Design, by Committee http://www.coinlink.com/News/commentary-and-opinion/great-coin-design-by-committee/ Rare Coins & Currency News for Numismatic Collectors - Updated Daily Mon, 07 May 2012 19:57:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Donald http://www.coinlink.com/News/commentary-and-opinion/great-coin-design-by-committee/comment-page-1/#comment-166787 Donald Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:10:48 +0000 http://www.coinlink.com/News/?p=6585#comment-166787 We agree that design by committee is not the optimal way to produce attractive coins and medals. You seem to suggest that there is another way but after you criticize the CCAC for trying you don’t suggest anything. I would love to take your suggestions and the suggestions of your readers back to the CCAC coin design subcommittee at our meeting on Monday. There are few people more critical of the US Mint than me, but criticism alone does not change things. We need to offer suggestions and propose changes that can be made to the process. Now is the time to hear it. So please speak up. No one has a monopoly on good ideas. We agree that design by committee is not the optimal way to produce attractive coins and medals. You seem to suggest that there is another way but after you criticize the CCAC for trying you don’t suggest anything. I would love to take your suggestions and the suggestions of your readers back to the CCAC coin design subcommittee at our meeting on Monday.

There are few people more critical of the US Mint than me, but criticism alone does not change things. We need to offer suggestions and propose changes that can be made to the process. Now is the time to hear it. So please speak up. No one has a monopoly on good ideas.

]]> By: Rex http://www.coinlink.com/News/commentary-and-opinion/great-coin-design-by-committee/comment-page-1/#comment-164029 Rex Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:35:36 +0000 http://www.coinlink.com/News/?p=6585#comment-164029 Is it just me or does coin design seem like it's a lost art, the new coins coming out these days look very crude, the Pocahontas dollar, the new president dollars, the reinterpretation of the buffalo nickel for the gold coins, etc. we don't see anything like the seated or standing liberty designs, poor details, poor realistic likenesses are commonplace today. Is it just me or does coin design seem like it’s a lost art, the new coins coming out these days look very crude, the Pocahontas dollar, the new president dollars, the reinterpretation of the buffalo nickel for the gold coins, etc. we don’t see anything like the seated or standing liberty designs, poor details, poor realistic likenesses are commonplace today.

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