Post your ugliest non-damaged coin

I got this Mexican coin recently and think it has the ugliest obverse portrait I've ever seen.

Someone prove me wrong.....

 

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Not mine, but you asked for it.

 

Wow....that really is ugly...

 

Is this a guy or gal?

 

I'm not sure....

 

I thought we'd get more entries.....

OK, which coin wins as the ugliest design?

 

Umm... Thats a female. 1995 Special Olympics Commemorative. Eunice Shriver.

 

Looks Like Abe Vigodas twin sister to me.

 

Unfortunately this coin is in very poor condition (enough where I could probably throw it in the other ugly thread), but I think enough of the design remains so that we can get an idea of how ugly it originally was. Seriously, take a look at the giant schnoz!

For attribution, the best I can tell is that it's a half follis of Anastasius (which would mean it was from 498-518 AD) with a botched legend (since they appeared to spell his name with a Z or something).

 

How could it be Eunice Shriver? She's still alive.

 

Right, she is. So?

Christian

 

I collect medals but placed a coin picture in the UGLY Coin thread, so if you don't mind ugly portraits on a round metal object,,, here is mine. IT is a portrait of Queen Victoria 1837 , her better looking years.

 

That is UGLY Daboys!!!!

 

While I know wikipedia isn't the best reference here it is.

I beleive other pepople have been on a coin in thier lifetime. The 1921 Alabama centennial had a bust of the 1st governor and the governer in 1921. The governor of Arkansas was on the Arkansas centennial coin from 1936. The 1936 Lynchburg, VA sesquicentennial has a bust of the senator Carter Glass, he protested using a living person on a coin but they used it anyway.

So while it has not been done often it is not an uncommon practice.

 

Well ugly can be fun, but plain is torture. This to me is the all time plainest coin I have. Poker chip ???? No its an 1893 Brazil :rolling: Traci

 

I thought you had to be dead to appear on a US coin...apparently not.

 

Apparently it is not a law but some kind of rule. Y'know, no rule without exceptions. And yes, that Shriver portrait is not exactly pretty ... Ah well, here is another design that comes pretty darn close to being ugly:



Christian

 

Wow.....how did that ever make it on a coin?

 

Greyford wrote;

"I beleive other pepople have been on a coin in thier lifetime. The 1921 Alabama centennial had a bust of the 1st governor and the governer in 1921. The governor of Arkansas was on the Arkansas centennial coin from 1936. The 1936 Lynchburg, VA sesquicentennial has a bust of the senator Carter Glass."

Also do not forget that President Coolidge was on the sesquicentennial half in 1926 (along with washington)