Bruce Wilmore sparked a thought...

Simply put, in my opinion, the reverse design for the bald eagle silver dollar coin is quite plain. The half dollar has a more imposing and robust bald eagle on the reverse. It is also cute with two chicks on the obverse. The gold commemorative, which is beyond my reach at the moment, is more beautiful than the silver dollar coin, but to tell you the truth, the eagle is much more beautifully crafted in the annually issued gold american eagle coin. So my overall opinion, these bald eagle commems are poorly designed. If I had to pick one solely for the merits of its design, I would just stick with the half dollar commem.