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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 587384, member: 39&quot;]Seems you are right; that is not the death mask style but rather resembles the portrait on that French piece. Hope that Daggarjon won&#039;t mind our little &quot;excursion&quot; ... This page for example shows the portrait based on Braille&#039;s death mask: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On the French 1999 coin the eyes are open:</p><p><a href="http://images.delcampe.com/img_large/auction/000/056/355/603_001.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.delcampe.com/img_large/auction/000/056/355/603_001.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://images.delcampe.com/img_large/auction/000/056/355/603_001.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here <a href="http://www.indiacoins.de/New-Coins.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.indiacoins.de/New-Coins.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.indiacoins.de/New-Coins.htm</a> is another photo of the new coin from India. A little blurry; sorry for the confusion, but yes, that portrait is not in &quot;death mask style&quot; either.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the two €2 pieces that I mentioned:</p><p><a href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/comm/shared/img/comm_2009_be.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/comm/shared/img/comm_2009_be.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/comm/shared/img/comm_2009_be.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/comm/shared/img/comm_2009_it.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/comm/shared/img/comm_2009_it.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/comm/shared/img/comm_2009_it.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They have not been issued yet, but as far as I can tell the Belgian piece shows a portrait based on the death mask. Anyway, could be an interesting &quot;theme&quot; collection. Clinker had a great post about this somewhere around here ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah, found it: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t51425/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t51425/">http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t51425/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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