Ugliest coin

OK what is the most ugliest coin you have seen in your time as a Numismatists. Even in modern. Times...

 

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Poor Eunice. She'd have to sneak up on a glass of water and wrestle it to the ground.

 

Yeah, when the likeness is easily mistakable for an image of a decrepit, 132 year-old Isaac Newton, you know it's a pretty fugly coin.

 

Or Geronimo:

 

This, in my opinion, is one of the ugliest coins I've seen.

A coin with a horribly-rendered, cutesy little bunny image with hearts floating around him, and incongruously issued by that purge-happy, abattoir of a state, N. Korea (DPRK).

It is utterly queer in the deepest way.

 

Take that back. That's an insult to Geronimo!

 

This monstrosity:

 

Hey, how about Susie B.?

 

I admit I've never understood all of the rancor thrown at the SBA dollar from a purely aesthetic perspective. I completely understand its utter and humiliating failure as a coin in commerce and why it didn't catch on and why people hated it from that perspective. But, economic foibles aside, as a design in and of itself, I've always liked the coin. The reverse just re-used the Eisenhower dollar's reverse in miniature and I rarely hear complaints about that. So is the problem the portrait? Is it because she's not a pretty woman? I'll freely admit that Susan B. Anthony was no looker by today's standards (or perhaps by many other standards as well), but that aside I find the obverse well rendered and proportioned in a pleasing way.



In short, I've seen far uglier coins than the SBA out there.

Many have cited the Churchill crown as an ugly coin, almost always referring to Churchill's less than flattering visage.



To me an ugly person doesn't necessarily make for an ugly coin, it depends more on how well the coin depicts the person, but I'm probably in a distinct minority on that point.

 

I win. Found this in a chicken coop. Pee and poo corroded it?

 

I've been trying to find a way to say something like this.

Yes, it's a fact that people -- especially straight men, but not only straight men -- respond more positively to a "pretty" face than an "ugly" face. To the point where they'll leave a bigger tip for a waitress who's more attractive, or pay more attention in class if the teacher is attractive.

But I think bragging about it is, well, kind of embarrassing.

 

Okay, now I know how to answer the question.

Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugliness goes all the way to the reactive-metal core -- and straight through to the other side. Even when a Zincoln is newly-issued, lustrous and well-struck, that ugliness is lurking inside.

 

That, considering the issuing nation, is really sick.

 

This is my oxymoron coin.
When I hold youth auctions, I introduce this coin as the ugliest US coin.... on the obverse. I like the artwork and symbolism on the reverse.


I do not have a pic, but the 1965 Winston Churchill commemorative crown is the British equivalent.

 

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Are they minted in Poland? Just asking because they are usually where the coins with paint, inserts etc are usually done.

 

Ugly, odd, eeehhh