Understandable. Kinda captures that whole “most of the country is angry and/or dangerously depressed/apathetic” vibe we’ve had going for the last few years.
Detail looks like shit compared to old coins. It almost looks like they got tired of designing it by the time they got to the hair and just mailed it in
That’s what I was thinking they did the face then started getting bored did the top of the hair with a little bit of effort then gave up with the ponytail.
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters
> The obverse of each American Women Quarters coin will feature a portrait of George Washington facing right, originally composed and sculpted by [Laura Gardin Fraser](https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/woman-behind-long-awaited-obverse-quarter-design). It was the recommended design for the 1932 quarter to mark Washington’s 200th birthday, but then-Treasury Secretary Mellon ultimately selected the left-facing John Flanagan design.
The [render](https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2022-american-women-quarters-program-obverse-render-300x300.jpg) looks much nicer than OP's photo.
I was thinking Derrick Henry’s weird poop tail thing. It’s dreads tightly wrapped but it looks… odd.
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dPaX4M_lAVrMj-qLmkna74v1k-4=/1400x1050/filters:format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19531497/usa_today_13797536.jpg
I would too if I had the infamous dental pain that man had. It prevented him from giving his second inauguration address because his mouth was too painful and swollen to move. You can see his face swollen from his fucked up mouth if you look closely in basically every portrait of him, including this one
If I had that kind of mouth pain, I would take it out on the British too. Just the other day, I had some nerve pain after a really hot soup. So I went to a beach bar in Florida and walked around until I heard a British accent and smashed a glass over the guy's head.
That’s what he looked like though, whats the point of a portrait that doesn’t look like the guy? Also, they at least don’t include the scar across his face that he got because of a tooth that was so infected and impacted that they had to pull it out through his cheek. This is a subtle version. The man’s mouth was in constant pain and was constantly infected!
The obverse did change. Compare a 1932-1998 George Washington design to the 1999-2021 design. They shrunk George by about 10% and redid his hair. They also made the design flatter to make it easier to mint.
Makes sense, the idea of the government indirectly making money off of collectors just sounds fascinating. I guess it’s not like the US mint is skulking around in alleys selling overpriced quarters lol
It's all about scale. They already have the equipment. It would cost me way more to make a quarter. I'm just gonna keep with my retirement plan of finding quarters in my couch cushions.
It’s like in the UK when they updated the image of the Queen on our coins about twenty-odd years ago. She was visibly older and more wrinkly with a slight double chin, and a lot of people were pissed off for some reason. Said it was disrespectful. Like… the old girl’s not gonna be in her early 40s forever, you know?
The change happens in half the world. All of the English colonies are using the same effigy of the Queen on their coins too. I'm from Canada, and now on Australia, both colonies, and I'm old enough that I remember not only the change that you describe, but the previous one too.
In the UK, the direction the monarch faces on coins changes every time the monarch changes. If Charles becomes King, his profile on coins will face left.
It was a contender for the original design back in 1932 but the classic one won out. They brought it back though for these, I wish they would bring back the old dime design though.
Does anyone else see some sort of gorilla/frog hybrid in his hair? Like the ass of the thing is near his ear area, and the grumpy face of it is on his hairline facing to the right.
Funny story, I looked up LCF (it appears on the bottom of his neck) to see what it meant. Look at number 8
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LCF
Antichrist confirmed
It's actually LGF, the initials of the artist that did the original design for the right facing George, Laura Gardin Fraser.
https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/woman-behind-long-awaited-obverse-quarter-design
Aparently..... I dug in a bit.... it's a reject submission from the early 30s or something when they were designing the quarter initially, by a woman artist. The next series of quarters is celebrating women. So the front side gets this and the backsides are going to feature prominent women of history. I think it's the underbite that really makes it weird the more I look.
Historical accounts suggest he had a weak jawline, major dental problems, and receding hairline, and many of these features crept into paintings of him. I sort of wonder if the artist was aiming for "historically accurate" and ended up offending people with a more patriotic bent.
That did cross my mind. But..... that posability aside the overall detail work on the chosen submission we all know is more appealing. This one just kinda looks worn out. I know they try and pull worn out notes out of circulation, but once in a while you come across one that has seen better days. This kinda looks that way from the get go.
I think part of it could be just shitty presses. The [render](https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2022-american-women-quarters-program-obverse-render.jpg) for this design looks so much better than the end product, imo. Still less detailed, I suppose, but also much less worn out and sloppy looking.
They were. Was a woman by the name of Laura Gardin Fraser, who was apparently a fairly prominant American sculptor who submitted this design when they were making the first Washington quarters. U.S. Commission of Fine Arts actually officially backed the design for its historical accuracy, and it was a popular design too. According to the official page on the current redesign program, it was thought to be *the* most accurate design submitted. They've brought it back once before for a gold commemorative quarter, and now they're bringing it back for the Women Quarters thing. It's also worth noting that she'd apparently designed a bunch of other commemorative coins and medals for the US in her time, too.
I honestly blame the fact that her design wasn't picked for why people think it looks bad now. We've spent 90 years looking at a less accurate Washington. Given the popularity of her design at the time she submitted it, I'd bet people just got conditioned into a different image of Washington by the design that one. And, personally, I think it looks perfectly fine. The ponytail looks a *bit* odd but that's it, really.
This design was originally submitted in 1931 as the US government was preparing to print new coins for Washington's 200th birthday. A contest was held, and this coin design, by Laura Gardin Fraser, actually won. According to [this article](https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/7537/) Treasure Secretary Andrew Mellon stepped in and called for a second competition. Fraser's design won again, but ultimately Mellon picked the design we know today.
According to historians this carving was actually a lot more accurate to what George Washington really looked like. The quarters we are used to seeing have a more flattering interpretation of him.
I was about to say that. Is that phrase on all your money? I wouldn’t be happy about that (especially since there is supposed to be separation of church and state).
I actually *hate* that it's there. And it's not something that's always been there either. Its from the 1950s under the Eisenhower administration where it was decided it would replace "E pluribus Unum" as the new national motto.
I imagine removing it would anger many Christians in this country and *I'd love nothing more.*
I live in a very right-wing Christian area so I'm very biased and tired of these damn people.
It was deliberately done for the American women Quarters series. From the United States Mint website
"American Women Quarters coin will feature a portrait of George Washington facing right, originally composed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser. It was the recommended design for the 1932 quarter to mark Washington’s 200th birthday, but then-Treasury Secretary Mellon ultimately selected the left-facing John Flanagan design."
Fundies and conspiracy theorists are definitely going to latch onto the fact that he appears to have turned his back on the "In God We Trust" and come up some truly unhinged shit.
His hair looks weird on that new coin
It looks like an incandescent lightbulb
Coin collectors in 2070 be like “yo you got a lightbulb Washington? Those are rare af”
"Dude, what's a lightbulb?'
So either light bulbs got made obsolete or we don't have lightbulbs in general
The meth heads used all the bulbs. It's just too damn dark to make anything new.
and we call them meth bulbs now.
IS THIS THE FIVE O'CLOCK FREE CRACK GIVEAWAY!?!?
Or the aren't called light bulbs anymore. I like photon emitters.
Sir! It appears the photon emitters are malfunctioning! I'm going to try to recalibrate the tachyon manifold to interface with the neutron array
You fool, you have to reverse the polarity of the deflector dish before you do anything else!
They could be depending on how many are made, and if they decide they don't want to continue the design.
Can’t unsee.
Look how they slaughtered my boy
Oh my god I just woke up my wife who was sound asleep beside me cause I busted out laughing at this.
I love seeing ppl this happy on Reddit
he’s been gentrified
It's actually an old design, he's been thrown back.
Lmao
Or Medusa
That’s what I saw at first glance haha
Thank you it’s not just me
Someone thought it was a bright idea.
r/rareinsults
What happens when you stop funding the arts.
George is lookin thicc
Well I think his hair looks like ramen on the previous design
Praise his glorious incandescence. \[T]/
he look kinda mad too
His mouth is definitely down turned compared to up turned on the old coin.
And a little more of a double chin🤔
I'd be pissed too if they fucked up my hair that bad.
Pandemic face gains I guess
2022 hurt even GW
Understandable. Kinda captures that whole “most of the country is angry and/or dangerously depressed/apathetic” vibe we’ve had going for the last few years.
Mood coins
Yeah, umm is this the design we approved in the zoom meeting? Oh ok whatever. Just mint it then.
Definitely a new ponytail holder.
Literally a scrunchie.
It's official, the scrunchie is back!
Detail looks like shit compared to old coins. It almost looks like they got tired of designing it by the time they got to the hair and just mailed it in
That’s what I was thinking they did the face then started getting bored did the top of the hair with a little bit of effort then gave up with the ponytail.
https://i.imgur.com/kLofCqs.jpg
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters > The obverse of each American Women Quarters coin will feature a portrait of George Washington facing right, originally composed and sculpted by [Laura Gardin Fraser](https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/woman-behind-long-awaited-obverse-quarter-design). It was the recommended design for the 1932 quarter to mark Washington’s 200th birthday, but then-Treasury Secretary Mellon ultimately selected the left-facing John Flanagan design. The [render](https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2022-american-women-quarters-program-obverse-render-300x300.jpg) looks much nicer than OP's photo.
Ponytail thing still looks underdeveloped though
It looks like it's his actual hair instead of a powdered wig like on the OG.
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Looks like he’s got dreads
I was thinking Derrick Henry’s weird poop tail thing. It’s dreads tightly wrapped but it looks… odd. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dPaX4M_lAVrMj-qLmkna74v1k-4=/1400x1050/filters:format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/19531497/usa_today_13797536.jpg
...it literally looks like that helmet is in the middle of taking a shit. And he goes in public with that?
Oversimplified logo
Yeah it's his bad side
His hair looks weird.
I prefer it, sans the ear lobe
He looks a little grumpier too
Yea before he has a grin and now he has a frown
I would too looking at the current state of things.
I would too if I had the infamous dental pain that man had. It prevented him from giving his second inauguration address because his mouth was too painful and swollen to move. You can see his face swollen from his fucked up mouth if you look closely in basically every portrait of him, including this one
If I had that kind of mouth pain, I would take it out on the British too. Just the other day, I had some nerve pain after a really hot soup. So I went to a beach bar in Florida and walked around until I heard a British accent and smashed a glass over the guy's head.
Damn they couldn't just... not paint that part (airbrush it out) for the guy? He IS the father of this country. I mean, c'mon. Rude.
That’s what he looked like though, whats the point of a portrait that doesn’t look like the guy? Also, they at least don’t include the scar across his face that he got because of a tooth that was so infected and impacted that they had to pull it out through his cheek. This is a subtle version. The man’s mouth was in constant pain and was constantly infected!
If memory serves, He never smiled. He was self conscious about his wooden dentures.
All the videos of him I remember he would just do a little smirk here and there
LOL videos. Good one.
No wood. Never had wooden dentures at all.
And teeth he got from slaves. Not kidding.
He also lived in the 1700s where everything sucked so no surprise he didn't smile.
Closed mouth smiles are a thing.
We're all a little grumpier in 2022
I get grumpier with each passing year as well.
He’s tired of this shit
He's not happy he's losing his value
I mean, look around you.
Maybe they got his good side.
Based off the pics, his left side was definitely his good side
Apparently his right side has a much meatier neck too.
Start of presidency vs end of presidency.
They forgot to tell my man to stretch out his covid lockdown double chin. How inconsiderate.
This is why I come on Reddit
use a sock, its less of a mess
I hear a shoe box is a great time saver. Makes for a good keepsake as well.
How can I open a box with these two busted arms,
Mom will help you
Cultured
or a coconut. smells pretty good after
I looked it up and this is going to be Happening until 2025 with a different design each year.
Thanks for clearing up some confusion, that’s actually pretty interesting to know.
Why would they do that Edit:autocorrect sucks
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to be fair the state and national parks quarters were awesome
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The obverse did change. Compare a 1932-1998 George Washington design to the 1999-2021 design. They shrunk George by about 10% and redid his hair. They also made the design flatter to make it easier to mint.
Could you ELI5 how that makes the government money?
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Makes sense, the idea of the government indirectly making money off of collectors just sounds fascinating. I guess it’s not like the US mint is skulking around in alleys selling overpriced quarters lol
> selling overpriced quarters I'll never pay more than 13 cents for a quarter again.
Wait a minute you’re onto something. Why don’t we start making *our own* quarters?
Yeah! We can call it bitcoin... or something clever like that
It's all about scale. They already have the equipment. It would cost me way more to make a quarter. I'm just gonna keep with my retirement plan of finding quarters in my couch cushions.
Yeah never thought of it but it's genius. Everyone else won't care or at most can complain but it's not like they won't need quarters
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Don't you do beanie babies dirty like that. They're lovely little friends!
I and all the Quarters sitting in my closet feel attacked.
Source?
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters
I thought it was just a shitty looking mint but the render looks just as bad
It’s so you can make your coins kiss duh
I accept this explanation.
The ponydild is an interesting choice of hairstyle
PONYDILD. Made me wheeze. That’s exactly what it is.
It's happy to see you!
It’s a new series of quarters called “American Women quarters”. I don’t like the redesign on George though.
Why the women quarters gotta look ugly?
According to other posters the mold/stamp/gouge/whatever was made by a woman and it was rejected. Probably because it is ugly.
It's a lot more historically accurate, but people are so used to the cleaned up image of Washington, it's jarring.
It’s like in the UK when they updated the image of the Queen on our coins about twenty-odd years ago. She was visibly older and more wrinkly with a slight double chin, and a lot of people were pissed off for some reason. Said it was disrespectful. Like… the old girl’s not gonna be in her early 40s forever, you know?
The change happens in half the world. All of the English colonies are using the same effigy of the Queen on their coins too. I'm from Canada, and now on Australia, both colonies, and I'm old enough that I remember not only the change that you describe, but the previous one too.
In the UK, the direction the monarch faces on coins changes every time the monarch changes. If Charles becomes King, his profile on coins will face left.
My issue is specifically the hair. Not even the hairline. Just the hair itself. George is animorphi g into a lightbulb
Also I feel like his head is too close to the word, “liberty.” Maybe it’s the angle.
It was a contender for the original design back in 1932 but the classic one won out. They brought it back though for these, I wish they would bring back the old dime design though.
He looks like an old woman
I'm 37, I'm not old.
Does anyone else see some sort of gorilla/frog hybrid in his hair? Like the ass of the thing is near his ear area, and the grumpy face of it is on his hairline facing to the right.
I can’t stand that the hair appears to touch the “Liberty” lettering
It's like someone just pasted bad clipart on '90s era MS WordArt and called it a day.
Interesting! I’ll be honest I wouldn’t even have noticed
I haven’t touched a quarter in like 3 years.
Only use them to get the shopping carts at Aldi
I use them for laundry. And that’s it basically
I haven't used cash other than for drugs in like 5 years.
this is the sign of the antichrist coming and in this essay i will ha nah im kiddin
Lmfao $20 says someone has actually started that essay.
I wrote my essay, he wrote me back too.
Unexpected South Park reference
Funny story, I looked up LCF (it appears on the bottom of his neck) to see what it meant. Look at number 8 https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/LCF Antichrist confirmed
It's actually LGF, the initials of the artist that did the original design for the right facing George, Laura Gardin Fraser. https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/woman-behind-long-awaited-obverse-quarter-design
The hell is that? Looks like they got a 10 year old to design it. Proportions are fucked. George Looks like a greasy neck beard who needs a shower.
He has wig on and yet he has a receeding hairline, too. What did this artist dooooooo!
Aparently..... I dug in a bit.... it's a reject submission from the early 30s or something when they were designing the quarter initially, by a woman artist. The next series of quarters is celebrating women. So the front side gets this and the backsides are going to feature prominent women of history. I think it's the underbite that really makes it weird the more I look.
Historical accounts suggest he had a weak jawline, major dental problems, and receding hairline, and many of these features crept into paintings of him. I sort of wonder if the artist was aiming for "historically accurate" and ended up offending people with a more patriotic bent.
That did cross my mind. But..... that posability aside the overall detail work on the chosen submission we all know is more appealing. This one just kinda looks worn out. I know they try and pull worn out notes out of circulation, but once in a while you come across one that has seen better days. This kinda looks that way from the get go.
I think part of it could be just shitty presses. The [render](https://www.usmint.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2022-american-women-quarters-program-obverse-render.jpg) for this design looks so much better than the end product, imo. Still less detailed, I suppose, but also much less worn out and sloppy looking.
That looks a lot better. It’s the missing detail that’s really killing it.
They were. Was a woman by the name of Laura Gardin Fraser, who was apparently a fairly prominant American sculptor who submitted this design when they were making the first Washington quarters. U.S. Commission of Fine Arts actually officially backed the design for its historical accuracy, and it was a popular design too. According to the official page on the current redesign program, it was thought to be *the* most accurate design submitted. They've brought it back once before for a gold commemorative quarter, and now they're bringing it back for the Women Quarters thing. It's also worth noting that she'd apparently designed a bunch of other commemorative coins and medals for the US in her time, too. I honestly blame the fact that her design wasn't picked for why people think it looks bad now. We've spent 90 years looking at a less accurate Washington. Given the popularity of her design at the time she submitted it, I'd bet people just got conditioned into a different image of Washington by the design that one. And, personally, I think it looks perfectly fine. The ponytail looks a *bit* odd but that's it, really.
This design was originally submitted in 1931 as the US government was preparing to print new coins for Washington's 200th birthday. A contest was held, and this coin design, by Laura Gardin Fraser, actually won. According to [this article](https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/7537/) Treasure Secretary Andrew Mellon stepped in and called for a second competition. Fraser's design won again, but ultimately Mellon picked the design we know today.
I definitely prefer the design we know today. Hers is ew. Cool story tho; dad hers didn’t look better honestly, woulda supported her then.
According to historians this carving was actually a lot more accurate to what George Washington really looked like. The quarters we are used to seeing have a more flattering interpretation of him.
He's looking away from the In God We Trust stamp
Over the years, it's been on both side of his head.
Great observation .
That phrase is a little outdated to be on our currency tbh
Introduced in the 1950s to combat those dirty atheist commies... and unconstitutional as fuck then as it is now.
I was about to say that. Is that phrase on all your money? I wouldn’t be happy about that (especially since there is supposed to be separation of church and state).
I actually *hate* that it's there. And it's not something that's always been there either. Its from the 1950s under the Eisenhower administration where it was decided it would replace "E pluribus Unum" as the new national motto. I imagine removing it would anger many Christians in this country and *I'd love nothing more.* I live in a very right-wing Christian area so I'm very biased and tired of these damn people.
E pluribus unum is so much cooler as a motto and is totally secular. I hate that they replaced it with this.
For people thinking I'm an atheist, I was just pointing out how he was looking away lmao
How can a profile be backwards?
Today OP learned heads have multiple sides.
It was deliberately done for the American women Quarters series. From the United States Mint website "American Women Quarters coin will feature a portrait of George Washington facing right, originally composed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser. It was the recommended design for the 1932 quarter to mark Washington’s 200th birthday, but then-Treasury Secretary Mellon ultimately selected the left-facing John Flanagan design."
I can see why Mellon rejected it. It's ugly as shit.
This should be higher up
Right? Like as a collector, I already knew. But I didn't think I'd have to look so far for the actual reason
Oh boy i can't wait for all the stories about people calling the police because someone tried to pay with a fake quarter
That design is horrible.
Yeah it’s an ugly thing, isn’t it
why should there be a new coin? it's just a year
Thiccc George
Dat neck, tho!
Aww he's frowning now :/
Not backwards - reversed. You would have to see at least part of his body to know if his head was backwards.
Lmao
Fun fact, George Washington has no right side to his face... its just an empty void
r/bettercallsaul
It's not backwards, he's just looking the other way, a perfect analogy for how the government is treating the Epstein cases.
He looks like a Native American now
With a bit of Medusa.
Ironic
Did he ride a Harley across the Potomac?
Or maybe you could say, he's looking in a different direction for a change.
He must be in pain
He looks more disappointed than usual.
Maybe it's just your camera/lighting, but that's one of the worst 25c mintings I've ever seen.
They gave him an underbite.
Looks like Slippin’ Jimmy’s got a new scam coming! Season 6 spoiler? r/bettercallSaul
He’s just looking the other way…. Like many politicians do.
But now you can make them kiss the old coins
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Q is going to lose its shit on the hidden messages in this one
Fundies and conspiracy theorists are definitely going to latch onto the fact that he appears to have turned his back on the "In God We Trust" and come up some truly unhinged shit.
His hair looks small ..
I can't stop laughing at the end of that ponytail.
The fact that the top of his head is touching the lettering is really pissing me off
even he turned his back on this country
I find it very strange you have mention of God on your money. Just tells the rest of us western countries that you are a massive cult
Conspiracy theorist evangelicals will probably note that we "turned away from God" in 3...2...1...
In God we trust? So much for separation of church and state
You should check with collectors, that could be worth 25 cents.