Montana Quarter Designs

[Ediacara]

Poll question: Montana Quarter Designs

Elk


Bison Skull


Map


Landscape (eerily similar to the state seal, which is a no-no in quarter designs)

[Ediacara]

1. Montana's seal fyi

[Tyrone Slothrop]

2. Are those actual models that they were choosing between?

If so, where did you find those at? Several of my relatives would love to see the various rejected (and proposed) images for the other states.

On edit: For the record, I chose the skull. 'Cause skulls are wicked cool.

[Ediacara]

3. It's on the Governor's webpage

Aparently text submissions went to the governor's office, the quarter committee chose four of the most popular themes, and then sent them to the mint. The mint's artists actually produced those images, and sent them back to the state committee. In the next few months, there will be a web-poll to chose between these four.

I am bummed out because I know one of the most popular submission ideas was dinosaurs, but unfortunately, that was not chosen as a fifth option.... Unfortunately, two of the submissions are (IMHO) kind of lame: another map quarter, or an ugly landscape (which as I said earlier, looks just like the freaking state seal minus the mining and farm equipment).

ON EDIT: and now I see the map is winning the plurality in my poll, LOL!

[AllegroRondo]

5. Too many states do a map quarter

I like the ones that are different, like the skull.

[Archae]

10. Especially Michigan

Their quarter is ONLY a map. :boring:

[trogdor]

12. Map quarters suck.

They're an insult to the program and to numistmatics in general. Montana had EIGHT YEARS lead time to get a decent design, and you still have state maps in contention. God, but that sucks.

[terrya]

4. Landscape

It's just a nicer looking design. In my humble opinion.

[Kali]

6. I kind of like the skull

the live animal would have been nice too.

Surprised no gas wells. hee hee

[smitty]

7. Whichever one is finally selected the Montana quarter will better than the

Wisconsin quarter which features a cheese wedge, an ear of corn and a cow. Embarrassingly lame.

[Fox Mulder]

8. Whenever I think of Montana, I think of elk.

I like the elk one. :)

[Left_Winger]

9. I think the elk is the coolest

Just my opinion...

[WildEyedLiberal]

11. I voted elk

I like the cow skull, but I associate cow skulls with the desert Southwest, like New Mexico or Arizona.

[Kali]

15. Its a bison skull - way different shape than domestic cattle. nt

[Radical Activist]

13. Those are all kind of boring.

Hasn't anything ever happened in Montana besides being home to some really crazy people?

[Debi]

18. Hey, I resemble that remark!

(18 years in Montana before moving to Iowa) I guess I'm one of them!

[havocmom]

24. Who's your governor?

Bet ours is cooler ;)

With few exceptions, most crazy people here are from some other state.

[greendog]

14. Need one with a Grizzly Bear...

...eating a Real Estate Agent. :evilgrin:

[Kali]

16. ha - love it.

[havocmom]

23. Amen!

Just say no to trust fund brats wanting the sheriff to get the deer outta the petunias!

[Debi]

17. I like the last one, but only because it's similar to what we used

for our final backgroud for our CYC Convention in 1986 (held in Helena). :sigh: oh the memories.

[EstimatedProphet]

19. They should have a live bison

Montana's one of the few places where it's still possible to see them in the wild

[Squeech]

22. Kansas already used it

One of my favorites of the current quarters. I like the guitar on the Tennessee quarter too.

[Kat45]

20. I vote for dental floss.

"moving to montana soon...."

[Zomby Woof]

21. Going to get a cup of coffee

And give my foot a push...

Me and the pygmy pony over by the dental floss bush!

[Initech]

28. And I ride like a cowboy into the dawns of Montana...

Moving to Montana soooooooooooooooooooon... gonna be a dental floss tycoooooooooooooooooooon...

*extended Zappa solo*

[SoCalDem]

25. Fark did Idaho quarters a while back.. some are hysterical

others at

http://socaldem.smugmug.com/gallery/719518/1/31520600/Medium

[swag]

26. Bison skull.

I've driven from Havre to Glasgow and back too many times not to know that it's bison skull.

[Zomby Woof]

27. I like this one

[Kali]

29. AH hahahaha!

Not laughing AT Montana, laughing WITH - Arizona could have any number of nutty ex-governers or a scene of the lunacy happeneing near the border. We will probably have a cactus.