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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 677529, member: 39&quot;]Keep in mind that they are made solely for collectors. My impression (I may be wrong here) is that many Americans who collect coins prefer &quot;classic&quot; designs over contemporary ones. If that is the case, it makes a lot of sense for a producer of collector coins to meet that demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I don&#039;t think that applies to one country only. Portugal for example which has in the recent past issued quite a few very &quot;sober&quot; collector coins (see this Henry the Navigator piece <a href="http://www.euronumis.pt/imagens/imagensGrandes/8EHENR08PT.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.euronumis.pt/imagens/imagensGrandes/8EHENR08PT.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.euronumis.pt/imagens/imagensGrandes/8EHENR08PT.jpg</a> for example) is now starting a new Numismatic Treasures series. And the first piece will be this one: <a href="http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1301/morab.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1301/morab.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1301/morab.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Basically a copy of an old Portuguese gold coin (the morabitino), this one will be issued in a Cu-Ni version and as a gold piece. And while in general I prefer modern designs for modern coins, this one looks better to me than the Henry piece. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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