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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 698044, member: 39&quot;]There is this &quot;Louisiana Purchase&quot; (umm, Sale) piece from France for example, featuring a jazz musician with his trumpet. It is not supposed to be any particular artist, but he looks a little like Louis Armstrong ...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/0/2/1/5/1/4/webimg/296247954_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/0/2/1/5/1/4/webimg/296247884_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then we have this Austrian coin; Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago ...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.muenzblog.de/bilder/oesterreich-5-euro-haydn-2009.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Portugal issued a &quot;Fado&quot; coin last year, with the fado singer Amalia Rodrigues:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://bilder.afterbuy.de/images/79769/PO0825_Fado.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And we get back to Ireland, or rather Ireland and Croatia. Both countries issued coins honoring Ivan Mestrovic in 2007. The reverses, identical for both pieces, show his suggestion for the country&#039;s first coins, made 80 years ago. However, his designs arrived too late ...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.muenzblog.de/bilder/irland-15-euro-ivan-mestrovic-2007.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>All these are collector coins though, and are not issued for circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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