Here's one coin that I will not be adding to my collection

I’ve got to boast for a second–I’ve got a pretty impressive challenge coin collection (90+ IIRC).

But I will not be adding this one!

Tripler
Nope. :enraged_face:

Not even if there’s a special collector’s edition in gold and marble?

Looking at the design, it doesn’t say “stern” to me. Looks more like a worried turtle about to pull its head into its shell.

Q: When does a commemorative coin become a commemorative plate?
A: when it’s as uselessly big as this garbage.

Maybe somebody with the right materials and equipment can pull a stunt similar to the OSS’s Operation Cornflakes

Moderating:

Overtly political OP, Trump outrage… this is a Pit thread if it’s anything. As such, I’m closing it. @Tripler, please let us know if you’d like it reopened in the Pit.

At the request of the OP, this is reopened in the Pit.

Nitpick (not directed at the OP) if it isn’t spendable legal tender, it isn’t a coin. That’s a round or a medallion.

You might want to check before you nitpick.

By definition, it does not have to be legal tender. It’s valid to refer to an object that resembles a coin used as legal tender as a “coin”.

something resembling a coin especially in shape

That’s the thing about language; when people use a term incorrectly in a particular way often enough, for long enough, that usage eventually becomes correct.

Pretty sure I could still place a round at dead centre. Doesn’t matter if it’s 20m or 50m, I can do it with iron sights from a .22. I can do 200m with telescopic sights, and a .257 Roberts/Remington.

According to Americans, we Canadians aren’t supposed to have guns. Well, bring out Mr. Trump’s vanity coin and put it on a target, and I’ll prove that not only do we have guns, but that we know how to shoot them.

I guess he expects to get a sample for free. Say twelve dozen or so, right?

I bet the “Arts Panel” will gladly agree.

He not only looks ridiculous and stupid, as was to be expected. The whole things is horribly drawn, and his head covering part of the E in LIBERTY, the IN GOD WE TRUST in a circle section at the bottom, and putting six stars on the left side but seven on the right (hint: the upper star is too close to the Y, the lower too close to the small hand) is typographically amateurish, not to say hineous. And that drawing, I can tell you, does not work on a metal surface. Seven eights of the surface are his suit, if you crease it it looks shabby, if you don’t crease it it looks drab.

What a bunch of idiots.

So it’s a six, seven joke?

@Pardel-Lux , good criticism, from a design point of view. I agree.

I’d still like my rifle.

But, but but clearly trump is more important than mere liberty. he’s certainly trampling it everywhere he can. The coin should have him literally overshadowing liberty.

“It has a certain understated stupidity.”

Yes, nice criticism. It is indeed badly drawn and badly designed. It doesn’t look like trump is leaning on a desk, it looks like he’s leaning over a low wall and his tiny fists are suspended in space in front of the wall, making his posture look stiff and unnatural.

But then, his actual posture is stiff and unnatural, so maybe it is accurate :thinking:

I don’t do typographical design, but the kerning of “1776” and “2026” bothers me somewhat.

The key difference between silver coins and silver rounds is legal tender status. Coins are government-minted with a face value, while rounds are privately minted with no denomination.

Two important attributes distinguish a coin from a round:

A coin is minted by a sovereign government. 
A coin is legal tender with a minimum face value. 

https://learn.apmex.com/learning-guide/bullion/what-is-the-difference-between-a-coin-and-a-round/

Coins are minted by a sovereign government, are legal tender, and have a minimum face value in addition to a melt value.

Unless the Trump thing has a value stamped on it and you can literally spend it at that value, it is not a coin.

It’s important to remember the he was the one to approve the design.

So the actually skilled design folks had to make it dumb enough to pass his approval. The guy couldn’t recognize actual quality anything even if it was dropped on his head.


For me the 13 stars are the worst part. It’s admittedly legitimately hard to design neatly with that size of an odd number of things. 3 or 31 would be easier than 13.

But they picked about the worst way. So much winning.