
2020 Women's Suffrage Dollar and Medal Designs
The U.S. Mint has released the final designs for the 2020 Women's Suffrage Commemorative Silver Dollar as well as the Silver medal. By the looks of the dollar this coin will be an artistic disappointment after the success of the 2019 Apollo 11 designs. There's quite a bit going on with the reverse design, too much in fact, and it reminds me of a hippie rock concert poster from the 60's. The obverse is alright, but it annoys me whenever I see $1 used on coinage instead of One Dollar...using $1 cheapens the coin's value and should be reserved for tokens. As for the silver medal, it features a strong obverse and should do well. The artistic energy that went into the medal appears to be a sign that the mint is moving towards improving it's medal series since the commemoratives have lately not had a good track record. Case in point was the beautiful 225th mint anniversary Liberty medal, compared to the 2017 Boy's Town and Loin's Club commems. Win some, lose some, I guess. Perhaps it's time to take a good look at the mint's medallic offerings, at least from an art perspective.