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<p>[QUOTE="Mynter, post: 1644703, member: 40061"]I must say I like the contrast between the oldfashoned coin - design and the science fiction - like look of their bankontes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The swiss commemoratives of the 70`s and 80`s really are some of the ugliest coins ever minted. Swiss numismatist and coindealer P . Divo actually wrote in a catalogue on swiss coins that " one can not understand what passes the striking commitee today. Some designs are barely recogniseable others seem to be disfigured. The effigy of Dunant lokks like a potato. "[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mynter, post: 1644703, member: 40061"]I must say I like the contrast between the oldfashoned coin - design and the science fiction - like look of their bankontes. The swiss commemoratives of the 70`s and 80`s really are some of the ugliest coins ever minted. Swiss numismatist and coindealer P . Divo actually wrote in a catalogue on swiss coins that " one can not understand what passes the striking commitee today. Some designs are barely recogniseable others seem to be disfigured. The effigy of Dunant lokks like a potato. "[/QUOTE]
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