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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3621587, member: 57463"]Nice... (Hungary's national emblem tells several stories at once. The cross at the top is tilted because it was bent when the crown was stashed while stolen. The vertical and horizontal lines at left are the four rivers: Duna (Danube), Tisza, Drava, and Szava. Hungary is in a basin, but the three mountains are there, whatever their names and places. And there is another crown with a double-cross, commemorating something or other in the past. If you do not know all of that, the symbols do not transmit much knowledge. The guy resting on the anvil must be on strike. He is not working. And it cannot be a comfortable seat for long...  And the wheat, if  you view it abstractly, could be a microscopic bug kind of predator, like a paramecium or something... Just so that we are clear on this, en is Magyar vagyok. But aesthetics supersedes ethnic affiliations.) Among the more interesting designs I found from researching the COIN OF THE YEAR Awards are these:[ATTACH]970860[/ATTACH](Italy 2 euro 2010 from Fleur de Coin online.)and[ATTACH=full]970861[/ATTACH] The embedded gemstones are novel, but not much use in commerce. Still, the production method opens a lot of doors to new issues.[/QUOTE]