 Art historian Cornelius Vermeule , in his volume on U.S. coins and medals , wrote that the obverse " is too crowded , despite the large , flat , clothed bust " and that the various elements of the reverse design " are all too much for one small coin " . He deemed " the coin honoring Hawaii in 1928 ... no more a credit to Chester Beach than was the Lexington Concord coin [ of 1925 ] " . 
