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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 6201, member: 39&quot;]Right, except that this applies to quite a few modern (and also older) coins from many countries. Earlier this week I got the 50p &quot;Roger Bannister&quot; coin, for example. Interestingly done, with only the legs and the stopwatch, but on the other side there is QE2 as on pretty much every other piece. Not terribly much variation. Admittedly that £5 coin issued last year had a different portrait. Oops, that was a modern silhouette ...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To some extent that is due to technical reasons, I think. We expect circulation coins to work flawlessly in vending machines and such, which apparently is difficult to achieve with high relief coins. Now commemoratives offer some more options, and a few are actually quite nice in my opininion.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for surrealistic art, well, Spain will issue those Dalí coins later this year. A tad expensive, though, if one wants to have them all. Don&#039;t think that there are any M.C. Escher coins ... except maybe from places like Liberia or Niue ;-)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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