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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 69785, member: 39&quot;]Primarily I collect coins from Europe, and I have always found it somewhat odd that so few dictators were depicted on the coins. Nazi Germany for example did not issue a single Hitler coin even though the &quot;Führer&quot; was omnipresent in other regards. (Hitler coins were planned for the time after the &quot;final victory&quot; ...) Similarly, no Italian coin shows Mussolini - but Italy was a little different in that it was a kingdom, and Vittorio Emanuele just continued to be on the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or take Stalin. As far as I know, the only (European) coin showing him was issued by Czechoslovakia. In other dictatorial regimes, such as Greece in the late 1960s/early 70s, there was a military junta but not a personality cult.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most monarchs used to be king or queen &quot;by the grace of God&quot;, and you will still see that nowadays on British coinage (D.G.REG.) for example. Now Franco himself was not king, but he considered himself to be the defender of the (basically Catholic) kingdom, and &quot;preserver&quot; of the monarchy until the next Borbón king in line would take over ...</p><p><br /></p><p>So I do have quite a few coins from such dictatorships, but hardly any of them depict dictators.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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