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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bluegill, post: 145686, member: 1748&quot;]I find very unattractive those coins that feature oil derricks or skyscrapers--some of those world coins, I look at them and think, &quot;Wow, that must be the pretties thing they could find in their country to feature on that coin.&quot; A few of the Persian Gulf states have coins like that. I wonder if they refused to put on a pretty shore bird or a leaping fish or a yak or a king&#039;s head because it&#039;s too close to Islamic prohibitions against graven images? If that&#039;s the case, they should have just filled the coin with Arabic script (which is elegant and flowing) or some kind of <i>horror vacui</i> geometric design instead of construction cranes or whatever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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