The new California Quarter. How do you like it?

[maveric]

With John Muir on it.

[Lisa]

1. all the stuff the White House hates!

The scale is a bit confusing (not enough room to convey perspective I guess), but at least the images are clear! Some of Canada's special issue coins are so cluttered it's hard to tell what we're honouring.

p.s. thanks for posting. I'm forwarding this image to a California friend who's teaching in England now, and probably hasn't seen it yet. She used to work on the condor recovery project, so I think she'll be "dead chuffed".

[maveric]

6. The WH would put oil derricks, earth moving equipment and a mounted head

of a mountain lion on the CA quarter if they had their way.

[Lisa]

20. actually, I think they'd drop the mountain lion

It might remind people that there actually are such things as wild animals (other than rats and cockroaches, which are the only creatures that flourish in Bush's wastelands).

Hard to imagine how one might do a pictorial description of a power blackout, but I'm sure that the WH would want to gloat over its monumental screwing of Californians, so they'd think something up.

[immoderate]

2. It... um ... rocks!

--IMM

[BlueJazz]

3. It's a Blessed Miracle! (The Rock looks like the Virgin Mary)

:)

[BlueJazz]

4. Now I look at it again.. On the Left side of the rock almost down..

...to the bottom is JAWS!

[maveric]

18. It looks more like a pigs snout.

It is Ah-nold!

[BrklynLiberal]

17. I see it! I see it!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[mcscajun]

5. I like it! I like it!

I visited the Muir Woods many years ago. Very fitting to put old John on the Quarter. :)

[Taxloss]

7. The composition is a mess.

I'm sorry, that's one ugly coin.

[bridgit]

8. not enough cali...

:shrug:

[maveric]

9. Should it have Ah-nold on a surfboard instead?

Or a looting scene from the 1992 LA riots?

[bridgit]

10. how bout a flood of illegals...

crossing the border @ mexicali :shrug:

[NomoBreaks]

11. Yes, illegals like the WHITE MAN

slaughtering his way west thru the Natives to California where they slaughtered the Mexicans.

[bridgit]

13. exactly my point...

cali is far more multicultural, multi-dimensional than yet another "white guy" standing around basking in the natural beauty here while leaning on a walking stick sheesh homer :shrug: this is the 5th largest economy...where's the bread basket?

[Radical Activist]

12. John Muir was a great man

I love it.

[dolo amber]

14. "ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI!!!"

Oh wait...that's Mike Muir. Nevermind! :D :hi:

[Gyre]

15. It's ok, in a boring sort of way.

But I really liked the stylized waves.
http://www.surfingthemag.com/news/surfing-pulse/012803_quarter/

just my opinion.

Gyre

[bridgit]

16. thank you...

:hi:

[Lisa]

21. nice!

I think the waves and solar waves look kind of Art-Decoish.

[Jara sang]

19. I love it. John Muir was a great man!

Half dome is spectacular and the Calif. Condor needs to be saved.