What an odd modern Euro

adamlaneus · January 9, 2009 1:50AM

Lots of the modern Euro coins seem to have interesting designs. I was poking through TeleTrade and found this:

I'd call it unusual!

Netherlands 10 Euro piece from 2004.

newsman · January 9, 2009 1:55AM

Hussulo · January 9, 2009 2:13AM

HTe baby's face is quite cute, one for stork maybe?
A bit too modern for me. What is the reverse design a fingerprint?

lordmarcovan · January 9, 2009 2:22AM

Odd, indeed, but interesting.

I call that sort of stuff "Ugly-cool".

<< What is the reverse design a fingerprint? >>

No, we're seeing it upside-down (and I suspect that side is technically the obverse). It says it is Princess Amalia (Amelia?).

ajaan · January 9, 2009 3:27AM

I like it. Wouldn't mind owning one of those. 10 Euros is what? $13 or so?

Sapyx · January 9, 2009 8:36AM

The Dutch have been putting "ugly-cool" modern art on their coins since the 1980's - maybe Queen B is a fan of the stuff?

Too weird for me.

trozau · January 9, 2009 8:52AM

The obverse is the baby Princess Catharina-Amalia and the reverse is Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. A little google search yielded July 12, 2004 - Christening of Princess Catharina-Amalia:

Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands was christened at the Grote of Sint Jacobskerk in The Hague. The christening was attended by around 1200 guests, among them Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Prince Friso and Princess Mabel, Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien, Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, Prince Maurits and Princess Marilène, Prince Bernhard and Princess Annette, Prince Pieter-Christiaan with his girlfriend Anita van Eijk, Prince Floris with his girlfriend Aimée Söhngen, Princess Irene, the Duke of Parma, Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme and Princess Christina. Also the parents of Princess Máxima, Jorge Zorreguieta and Maria del Carmen Cerrutti de Zorreguieta were present, as well as her brother Martín (godfather) and his wife Mariana. While the service took place in the church Princess Catharina-Amalia stayed at the chapel next to the entrance, together with Countess Eloise and Count Claus-Casimir (children of Prince Constantijn), Anna and Lucas van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven (children of Prince Maurits) and Isabella van Vollenhoven (daughter of Prince Bernhard). Princess Laurentien had the honour to bring in the little Princess and take her to her mother. Eloise, Anna, Lucas and Isabella entered also with two nannies. Princess Catharina-Amalia looked around with astonishing eyes, but didn't make a sound during the rest of the ceremony. It was Isabella van Vollenhoven who finally made most of the noise.

Ultra modern but really not ugly at all.

lordmarcovan · January 9, 2009 9:40AM

Yes it is. Ugly as can be.

But uglycool. Better a "good ugly" like that than plain ol' ugly.

lordmarcovan · January 9, 2009 9:46AM

Oh, and the Israelis, like the Dutch and the Belgians (and to a lesser extent, the French) are also masters of uglycool coinage with stark modern designs. I have noticed that a lot of Holocaust memorial art tends to also be stark and modernistic. Which is quite appropriate, when you think about it.

I suppose it is good that not everybody is a slave to tradition. If everybody struck beautiful, mostly traditional designs like the Italians and the Swiss, I guess we'd lack for variety.

So OK, maybe ugly is not ugly at all. Personally, I go for the traditional stuff, but I can see valid artistic expression (and originality) in a lot of the modern stuff. Even in some of our own USA Statehood quarters.

Stork · January 9, 2009 10:40AM

From Wikipedia:

<< the Stork has been the symbol of The Hague. >>

(okay I capitalized the S word

)

So, a baby on a coin, who can conceivably be nicknamed Cathy, and who was christened in a city with a Stork as a symbol...

I don't care what it looks like, I WANT one!

I just checked ebay and no luck...I need a source!

Cathy

lordmarcovan · January 9, 2009 12:01PM

Well, did a.l. buy that one off Teletrade?

trozau · January 9, 2009 12:15PM

<< From Wikipedia:

<< the Stork has been the symbol of The Hague. >>

(okay I capitalized the S word

)

So, a baby on a coin, who can conceivably be nicknamed Cathy, and who was christened in a city with a Stork as a symbol...

I don't care what it looks like, I WANT one!

I just checked ebay and no luck...I need a source!

Cathy >>

A coin full of symbolisms and hidden connections specially minted for Cathy (aka Stork).

BillyKingsley · January 9, 2009 5:54PM

I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like that before. Kind of cool, though.

Is that meant to circulate or NCLT?

When she grows up, that will make an interesting conversation starter for sure!

adamlaneus · January 10, 2009 1:53AM

Well, if anyone is interested in this coin, it is in an upcoming Monday TeleTrade auction

This is an unsolicited plug. It's not my coin. I post this information simply because someone else expressed interest in this thread and did not know if it was for sale or not.

Stork · January 12, 2009 12:45AM

<< This is an unsolicited plug. It's not my coin. I post this information simply because someone else expressed interest in this thread and did not know if it was for sale or not. >>

Thanks! I will have to dig around and find my teletrade log-in.

Though I understand the yucky face emotie too

.

Cathy

trozau · January 12, 2009 1:04AM

<< Though I understand the yucky face emotie too

.

Cathy >>

The poster was probably NOT breast-fed.

newsman · January 12, 2009 3:49AM

<< 

<< Though I understand the yucky face emotie too

.

Cathy >>

The poster was probably NOT breast-fed.

>>

No, he just has an allergy to coin designs that look like a fingerprint in concrete backed by a poorly digitized photo.

Stork · January 13, 2009 8:13PM

Rats...I didn't find my log-in right away and forgot to bid..it only went for $15. Oh well, I'm sure one will turn up again.

Cathy

(edited because I can't spell my name!)

ajaan · January 13, 2009 8:47PM

I bid $12 and forgot to go back and increase my bid.

adamlaneus · January 14, 2009 1:24AM

He he he.

I'm surprised I bid on it. But when I saw it at $12, I jumped in and won it at $15.

I would not have bid if it weren't for that modern gold swiss shooting thaler that was also for sale.

What an odd modern Euro

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