The Worlds Most Desirable Modern Coin Ever

Now the head side of this is just.......
http://www.dublinmintoffice.ie/iris...and-golden-commemorative-1/?open=29&cat_id=29

Sorry more ranting about Dublin Mint Office but this had to be shamed....

 

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they are an offshoot of the london mint office, and the least said about them the better.

 

Both the "London Mint Office" and the "Dublin Mint Office" are parts of the Samlerhuset Group ... By the way, in this case it was a third party that altered the Irish coin. Well, the Dutch mint now does that itself - they take a regular 10 cent coin and partly color it.

And yes, the two Latvian collector coins shown here so far were made by the Finnish Mint. Most desirable? Well, there is no accounting for taste - in my opinion some of the Latvian collector coins have great and innovative designs while others ... What I really like about the Latvian issues is the series of 1 lats circulation coins: http://www.bank.lv/en/money/1-lats-ls-1-in-short

Christian

 

All of which is no excuse for this commemorative piglet.

 

BTW - I already pointed out already the warm beer coin.

 

Aw man, now you are making me thirsty for a nice pint of Guinness.

 

now that's the most desirable coin ever, edward III double leopard................................

 

With enough warm beer, one might decide to mint a silver coin with a bad sketch of a pig on it. really, of all the 7 year olds in Latvia, was this the BEST they could do?

Ruben

 

The winning designer was six years old then. Whether her design was "the best" among the 4,000 submitted ... so what. It looks cute, I think. And if such a competition helps getting children interested in coins, that is an added plus.

What I do not like that much is "pseudo children's coins". The second one you show here (90th anniversary of independence), for example, was designed by Aigars Bikše. A well renowned artist, but he is 42 as far as I know. Below is one of Bikše's coin designs that I like. The two kids with the flag, however ... hm.

Christian

 

Everyone is entitled to their aesthetics, and obviously someone agreed with you and minted that coin, but fwiw, I'm not that found of the above coin either. What is the design on the left?

Ruben

 

The theme of that coin is Amber (which can be found along the Baltic Sea coast). So the yellowish thing in the middle is an actual and sort of transparent piece of amber. The obverse design (left) shows the piece on the coast - think of the part where the face value and country name are as the beach, and of the upper left part as the sea. The waves "end" on the sand.

The other side could refer to how appealing amber is to the human eye. Sure, this is a surcharged collector coin (just like the Amber Road pieces issued by Poland) but beautiful. Forget the "coin" aspect, think of it as a medal or jewellery.

Christian

 

The beach is abstract but understandable after explanation. The eye still looks much like the flag IMO.

 

I meant to ask you, BTW, how do you know which mint an Israeli coin is made at? it seems to be very difficult information to track down. I noticed that the Akko coin has a Mem on it which I assume is a mint mark of some kind.

Ruben

 

I love it. TBH this thread is letting me know I should pay attention to more modern European issues.

One of the best coin designs I have seen in years, and I usually hate coins with added non-metallic items.

 

The technology is rapidly increasing and outside of the US, which has a PIA political process for coin design, there has been a lot of experimentation and break through designs. I like the Congos coins, but i won't buy anything from them with the political problems in the Congo.

Ruben

 

http://shroudofturin.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/cameroons-holographic-shroud-of-turin-coin/

 

In Us they have always turned everything to big business, but the US Mint produces quite conservative stuff (and far less NCLTs) related to Perth Mint or Royal Canadian Mint for example. The majority of US collectors seems also put their interest into circulating stuff only and not to high priced commems. Of course, nothing wrong in this, just curios why there are none really outstanding modern commems or coins made with new techniques in their programmes.

 

The US mint is limited by congress. The work is does with the ASE is quite good.

Mandy

 

Eh - I still think out of all the 6 year old children in Latvia, they could have done better. I wonder what that kid will think of his coin 50 years from now . Oh - your the fameous boy who made the piglet coin!

 

In fifty years, people may still remember what "coins" were but let's face it, such surcharged collector coins are hardly ever in "everybody's mind". What the Austrian Mint is currently doing may be a little more promising - they launched a series of €10 pieces that honor the nine Austrian states and, in a base metal version, can be had at face. One side of each piece was designed by a schoolkid. http://www.meinemuenze.at/ However, the mint's designers will then "polish" the designs, so the coin that you hold in your hand will not exactly be what the child designed. Have a look at the attached Steiermark (Styria) design ...

Larger image of nine year old Viktoria Reicht's original design:
http://www.meinemuenze.at/sites/default/files/muenze/Muenze-Stmk-2011_ReichtViktoria_1.jpg
Larger image of the Mint's design (cursor works as a magnifying glass):
https://www.muenzeoesterreich.at/Produkte/10-Euro-Silbermuenze

Christian