Post Beautiful Women

Post coins with depictions of beautiful women.

 

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Dolley

 

1 and 2 pesetas Euzkadi (Civil War Spain) 1937

 

Cyprus.
50 cents 1985.
Beautiful woman-tree.

 

Italy.
I can't see a face of this woman. But I like her... another side:devil:

 

San Marino.
Ain't she sweet?

 

A real person, Anne Willing Bingham was a well known and attractive socialite of the late 18th century in the USA. She is conjectured to be the model for Miss Liberty on the Bust coinage of that era:



Unfortunately her popularity did not help with her health and she passed away at a relatively young age.

 

"Dania" is representative of the nation of Denmark and was used on their coins much during the 19th century:

 

"Heidi" is representative of Switzerland:

 

"La Maja Desnuda" by Goya:



































































...whoops, June Cleever just slapped me upside my cranium for wanting to post that. Sorry folks.

 

"Audra" represents Portugal:

 

Hmmm. But that is not Heidi anyway - she is Vreneli.

PS - This is Heidi (a little girl, character/story created by the author Johanna Spyri) on a gold coin from 2001: http://www.gedenkmuenzen.ch/images/2001-50-Fr-Heidi-Gold.jpg

Christian

 

Europa on a Vatican coin (€5 2002). A better image is here for example. I like the way her dress, the water and the rainbow are combined ...

Christian

 

Here is an Italian collector coin (€5 2009) which commemorates the 300th anniversary of the (re)discovery of Herculaneum/Ercolano.

Christian

 

Not mine but maybe someday

 

I'm collecting these right now. This design totally rocks! And there's a lot of dates and
different denominations and metals.

 

The ever popular Italy Flying Lady coin:


Italy 20 Cents 1921

 

France


And let's not forget about our beautiful women on notes: