WTB: Coins with coins on them

LochNESS

If you have any coins with designs of other coins on them, send a PM!

Inspired by Lord M's recent thread. I have coins with pictures of other coins on them, always liked it, never realized I liked it until he posted that thread and I went searching for pics of such coins. In fact my all-time favorite coin is one with such a design.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's images borrowed from the Krause catalog of two USSR 3-Rouble coins I WTB:

No.1 is a picture of Y# 211, 1988 (I) silver proof (NCLT?), 34.5600 g., 1,000th Ann. of Minting (in Russia) with a coin design of St. Vladimir, 977-1015

No. 2 is a picture of Y# 223, 1989 (I) silver proof (NCLT?), 34.5600 g., 500th Ann. of First All-Russian Coinage with three ancients.

lordmarcovan

Like I mentioned, I think it's a neat concept. I didn't realize it would start you down a whole new collecting avenue, but I approve of that direction if you're going there.

I've always thought that coins with other coins on them were neat.

lordmarcovan

... especially if you collect all of the examples of the coins shown on the coins, in addition to the coins showing pictures of them!

But beware- if you should ever find a coin that has a picture of a coin that has a picture of the same coin on it, that has a picture of ... etc., etc., then you'll be sucked into some bizarre dimensional vortex.

Actually, I'm sure there's a name for that phenomenon, but I'll be danged if I know what it is.

Aha. It's called the "Droste effect". (Thank you, Wikipedia.)



A couple of Isle of Man issues come to mind.

There's this 1979 crown design (KM45), which was also used on a more expensive 10-crown piece (KM775). And they also struck coins commemorating the centennial of the ANA in 1991, which feature a collage of US coin designs. That was used on a 1/5 crown piece (KM29), and also a crown (KM291). Maybe more, for all I know.

Here's the 1991 ANA Centennial design, for sale by Black Mountain Coins, whose shop I visited just a week or so ago on my vacation. CU forum members "danglen" and "savoyspecial" work there.

LochNESS

Yeah! I wouldn't say it's a whole new avenue of my collection, but I am curious to see what's out there. Already found much more than I expected. Most seem to be commemoratives (which makes sense by design). I avoid medals, but since it's ANA, I will consider the 1991 piece.

Thanks for the helpful links and Droste Effect. I was going to guess Twilight Zone Phenom but that's more like opposite day than picture-in-picture.

lordmarcovan

I wonder if there are any Droste Effect coins out there. You'd have to start with a pretty large coin for it to work, I guess.