Here is a oldie but a goodie Too bad Sweden cannot produce high quality coinage 380 later! AV 6 Dukaten 1644 Riga Mint 20.83g. Mint master Henrik Wulff Queen Christina 1634-54 (Henrik was a pretty skilled coin designer) Latvia under Swedish Rulers
I think since we pay the mint employees big salaries to design/ produce today's collector coins....maybe its time to fire them all, and hire more skilled artisans. Get rid of the "Batman" coins, instead give us back the classical designs of the past. Putin's Russia still produces half decent looking coins. Even the failed Republic of Biafra made one beautiful proof set in 1969.
