The COOLEST coin designs! No duplicates, please!

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MrEureka
MrEureka Posts: 24,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Post a great picture of a great piece of numismatic art. Here are the rules:

1. It doesn't have to be toned.
2. If it's an ugly design but toned, for the sake of the thread, it's still ugly and is BANNED! (Sorry, Ike!)
3. It doesn't have to be a US coin. Heck, it doesn't even have to be a coin. Show us your tokens and medals?
4. If someone already posted the coin, you cannot post another of the same design.

This should be fun!



Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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  • ccr
    ccr Posts: 2,446
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  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    Here are my favorite classic and modern:

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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    Here's a more powerful rendition of St George slaying a dragon by William Wyon:

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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • RKKay
    RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
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    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    1839 UK Una and the lion £5 gold by William Wyon:

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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    1817 UK 3 Graces pattern Crown in gold by William Wyon:

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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • cacheman
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    karlgoetz.com
    karlgoetzmedals.com
  • RKKay
    RKKay Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭
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    Darkside coins taking control...Must fight it...Can only take a...
    Rick Kay
    Specializing in 1854 and 1855 large FE patterns

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  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    Speaking of cool, here's a 1995 Jamaica $50 Bob Marley Commemorative in silver:

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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    More like this at:

    Mildenberg's Dream Collection
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Rick -

    You can't do better than J439?

    What happened to your Schoolgirls???
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • ursabear
    ursabear Posts: 1,888 ✭
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    Of the coins I can own, here's one of my current favorites:
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    Of the coins that I don't own, I think the St. Gaudens $20 is truly magnificent, obv and rev.
  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    1907 US Ultra High Relief Double Eagle:

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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'll just post links to the 1907 US Ultra High Relief Double Eagle

    Low hanging fruit.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    It wouldn't go, so I had to embed it. I apologize if it causes much pain to those with dial-ups. image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • oreville
    oreville Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I have ALWAYS loved the defiant eagle design, the one that RKKAY has for his icon.

    Take a look at it. It is a cool eagle!!

    RKKay: Could you post a nice close up???
    A Collectors Universe poster since 1997!
  • Askari
    Askari Posts: 3,713 ✭
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    More Dark Side!! image
    Askari



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  • Askari
    Askari Posts: 3,713 ✭
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    Here's some other interesting numismia. imageimage
    Askari



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  • originalisbest
    originalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
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    Medallic art can be strikingly beautiful Askari! Though it does have coinage struck for circulation at a disadvantage in that it need not be very practical for mass production. I don't think you're playing fair. image
  • MrEureka
    MrEureka Posts: 24,779 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Central American Republic 8 Reales!
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • Askari
    Askari Posts: 3,713 ✭
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    Hey, I'm playing by Andy's rules, OIB! imageimage Many great coin designers were great medallists and often studied at famous schools. These medallic designs often found themselves inspiring coinage designs. St. Gaudens is a prime example, but also Morgan -- producers of some of the finest US designs of all time. The challenge was to render a beautiful design at much lower relief ... not an easy task!

    Speaking of Morgan, here are a couple other medals reminiscent of the US Morgan and my German pattern above, and one akin to the classic Liberties.
    Askari



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  • originalisbest
    originalisbest Posts: 5,971 ✭✭✭✭
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    OK, I was just poking at ya with a small stick anyways. image

    Quite a few beautiful medals out there, and for that matter, many great high-relief ancients that were the inspiration for Teddy Roosevelt and Augustus St.G in their designing efforts of 1907.
  • WWW
    WWW Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭
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    Cool AND Significant

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  • hookedoncoins
    hookedoncoins Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭
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    I like how this has turned into a mainly darkside threadimageimage.

    -Jarrett Roberts
  • Askari
    Askari Posts: 3,713 ✭
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    Did you have any doubt that it would? image
    Askari



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  • RELLA
    RELLA Posts: 963 ✭✭✭
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    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • RELLA
    RELLA Posts: 963 ✭✭✭
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    How does it not turn into a mainly darkside thread? Compare the total number of worldwide coin designs to the number of TRULY ORIGINAL US coin designs...

    I'm off in search of more fun coin pix (not all US if I can find the ones I want to find).

    RELLA
    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • cardinal
    cardinal Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    This is where the 18th Century U.S. Flowing Hair designs all started:

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    And these are the 18th Century U.S. Silver Dollar designs that resulted:

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  • WWW
    WWW Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭
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    US Coins rule. Be gone Darksiders! "Nuff Said" Translation: Very Cool Coins - And Currency
  • RELLA
    RELLA Posts: 963 ✭✭✭
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    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • RELLA
    RELLA Posts: 963 ✭✭✭
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    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • RELLA
    RELLA Posts: 963 ✭✭✭
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    Do not fall into the error of the artisan
    who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft
    while in fact he has had only one year of experience...
    twenty times.
  • Iwog
    Iwog Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭
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    "...reality has a well-known liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
  • boiler78
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  • StillLurking
    StillLurking Posts: 137
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    image

    An also-ran compared to Askari's medals but still pleasing to the eye.
  • jadecoin
    jadecoin Posts: 422
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    Great idea!

    Extraordinarily unmolested 1783 Washington Draped Bust copper, restrike ca. 1860 (never slabbed - we grade PR-64) :

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    Thanks!
  • MadMonk
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    All nice, but I still think The Franklin Half Dollar is by far the most beautiful coin design in the history of mankind. The design principle of simplicity at its finest.image
    Don't you think so Lucy?
    Actually, I love franklins, but too me, BU is Boring. It's the color, and the availabilty of the color, that captured my interest years ago.
    I like so many it would be hard to pick. So many countries have turned out so many beautiful works of art. So for me, an impossible question.
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    Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
  • Lori
    Lori Posts: 860
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    I am also collecting Silver Pandas. They are so pretty.

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    Lori
  • paigowjohnny
    paigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
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    Darn...Lori beat me to the pandas...

    Well...we'll go with the "new" Libertad.....
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  • WorldTypeSet
    WorldTypeSet Posts: 1,365 ✭✭✭✭
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    My favorite ...

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    Paul

    My World Coin Type Set
  • paigowjohnny
    paigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
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    Good day, eh ???

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  • paigowjohnny
    paigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
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  • coinnerd
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  • quattrocoins
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    FULL Heads RULE!
  • Clankeye
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    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • HoosierDaddy
    HoosierDaddy Posts: 80
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    Boiler -
    Help me out here...What the he!! are those? A morgan obv - based half? Is this a creation of some fancy software work, or is it a protoype of some sort...I am dying to know!
  • paigowjohnny
    paigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
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    Well between quattro and clank we have T&A covered image

    Very pretty coins...
  • trozau
    trozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
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    George IV medal by Benedetto Pistrucci

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    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • paigowjohnny
    paigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
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    bumpie
  • Askari
    Askari Posts: 3,713 ✭
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    Well, since we seem to have an "Oh, Canada!" series going here, can't leave out the Jack Tar Pine:
    Askari



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