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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
Voltronicus wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=190259070047 Bless her heart, the poor girl had Down Syndrome. I never knew. |
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"Voltronicus" wrote in message ... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=190259070047 She looks like Lou Costello with JFK hair. I don't know what's happened to the art of sculpting portraits on coins, but too many recent issues are cartoonish. People who ought to look distinguished come out looking like they turned the job over to someone who's last commission was a cereal-box token for Elmer Fudd. |
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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
"mazorj" wrote in message ... "Voltronicus" wrote in message ... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=190259070047 She looks like Lou Costello with JFK hair. I don't know what's happened to the art of sculpting portraits on coins, but too many recent issues are cartoonish. People who ought to look distinguished come out looking like they turned the job over to someone who's last commission was a cereal-box token for Elmer Fudd. Very true, even the Royal Mint portraits have gone down the tubes. Billy |
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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
On Oct 14, 12:31*pm, "note.boy" wrote:
"mazorj" wrote in message ... "Voltronicus" wrote in message .... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=190259070047 She looks like Lou Costello with JFK hair. I don't know what's happened to the art of sculpting portraits on coins, but too many recent issues are cartoonish. *People who ought to look distinguished come out looking like they turned the job over to someone who's last commission was a cereal-box token for Elmer Fudd. Very true, even the Royal Mint portraits have gone down the tubes. *Billy I'm not certain that the Royal Mint doesn't have a problem with the people who operate/manioulate the coin presses more than the die work itself. The newest sovereigns and half sovereigns don't always strike well, yet those designs have been in existence a long time. oly |
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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
The US circulating coins are cartoonish parodies of the original
designs. ------------------------- Frank Provasek Rare Coins http://www.frankcoins.com Ebay FRANKCOINS Member ANA, Texas Numismatic Assoc, Texas Coin Dealers Assoc, PCGS dealer, Full Time Dealer since 1991, Texas Auctioneer Lic 11259 |
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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
On Oct 14, 4:13*pm, Frank Provasek wrote:
The US circulating coins are cartoonish parodies of the original designs. What "original designs"? |
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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
On Oct 14, 1:31*pm, "note.boy" wrote:
Very true, even the Royal Mint portraits have gone down the tubes. *Billy The latest protrait of the Queen is horrid. |
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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
On Oct 14, 1:32*pm, Voltronicus wrote:
On Oct 14, 1:31*pm, "note.boy" wrote: Very true, even the Royal Mint portraits have gone down the tubes. *Billy The latest protrait of the Queen is horrid. Actually, I can appreciate that the Fourth Portrait (by Ian Rank- Broadley) is probably fairly honest (as was Victoria's Veiled Head portrait). H.M. is, of course, 82 years old. The Fourth Portrait may be too large in comparison to the size of the smaller coins - it may take up too much of the field. This could be one reason why the sovereigns and half-sovereigns don't seem to strike up as fully as in the past. The Canadian Dora dePedrey-Hunt portrait of H.M. - now that qualifies as horrid (and it was probably intentionally so, as the government of that day wanted to repatriate "The Constitution" and ditch the ties to the Commonwealth and the Throne - they only got the first part accomplished). I know that if my honest profile portrait were on a coin, it would look a bit like William IV, but bald and rather worse than Old Sailor Billy (that is to say, a bit along the lines of hammered SHXT). And I am just at 50. What would your portrait look like, RF??? oly |
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Princess Di or the Great Gazoo? You decide...
On Oct 14, 4:25*pm, oly wrote:
What would your portrait look like, RF??? I daresay my profile would likely be compared with the late, great John Barrymore |
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