France has one of the most beautiful designs, post your top world coin!

Undeniably one of my favorite coin designs ever. Just got this one for 1$ over spot!

Stunning example! Please post your favorite world coin designs.

 

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Nice Coin. The work of this man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Roty

 

Pretty hard to argue with Roty's Sower. Here's another French design, The Uruguay Centennial of 1930, by Morlon.

 

I love the sun in the background on them!

 

I don't own these. I love the designs.

 

I love the obverse on this one. Writing in the book of law.

 

I seem to like the pretty gals the most.

 

I like the cat. Canada had one similar.

 

La Semeuse: the Sower. Known earlier, she was the model for Weinman's Walking Liberty Half. (The classic heads from France were copied by Barber.)

 

Here's the Barber lookalike, the french Ceres, by Oudine

 

That is an awesome design! Haven't seen this before!

 

It would take a close analysis to explain why this is far superior to the Barber knock-offs. It is not just the strike or grade, but the entire design, the vocabulary of line and space that reveals Barbers (pere et fil) to have been second-handers, mere copyists. When the US Mint opened up design opportunities with the ill-conceived and badly managed "Commemoratives" of the 1920s and 1930s, the artistry improved.


Laura Gardin Fraser. Lindbergh Congressional Medal. Reverse.(Original in gold. My US Mint restrike in bronze.)

Amazon by Anthony C. Paquet. (But it took him a few tries to get it right. See here for the 1859 Department Store Mannequin with Taxidermy: http://uspatterns.com/anthonycpaquet.html )

 

*none of these are mine

For me it's hard to beat classical Greek gold staters for the title of most beautiful world coins ever. Here's just two different types so you can see what they are all about. I wish I could afford them.

Keep in mind these were all hand-made 2400 years ago.

 

La Semeuse

(Not mine. I put together a coin club presentation for another member. I think that this was not his, either, but an example. You can see that it is in a slab.) Be that as it may, this was the original "Sower" that inspired the Original Post (and the US Walking Liberty Half Dollar.)

 

One of my favorites (along with all those French coins) is the Japanese 50 sen 'double hoo' bird. I have entirely too many of them. They come in blast white to fabulous colors so there's always an excuse to add another one. This is a favorite of my favorites--love the way the sunburst design is red. Lots of Japanese classic symbols too. I've posted it many times but just can't help putting it out here again.