Beauty Is Relative. Post The Least Desirable Coin Design In Your Opinion.

It's quite a shame that these coin designers did not consult the CCF for their aesthetic advice...every one would have been a winner.

But seriously, I presume that everyone of these designs was carefully reviewed and met with the approval of some high committee. So what went wrong?

@commens, don't they have a contest or a bid on the best design, you'd think.

A harsh reality of life is that artists have a different eye for "beauty" than us non-artists. Neither viewpoint is right/wrong, its just the differences in the way God designed human minds.

I used to have many discussions about this at length with a good friend of mine who was an artist. I was interested in how such a different human than mine thought.

He pointed to the sunset and asked what I saw. I described the pretty purples and reds blending into the horizon. He said I missed most of what was there. The rest of the sky which was full of other colors leading down to the horizon and also blended in with the eye candy area. He said the artists' eye automatically and naturally sees those other colors, which actually dominate the sky, as well as the eye candy.

Some designs are simply boring!

Released 50 years ago today, The Royal Mint weren't very imaginative when it came to the reverse of the new Guernsey halfpenny!


The FAO 'Food For All' coin program has been responsible for numerous designs, good and bad, but surely Belize could have done better than this for their 25-cent coin:


And among all the Euro coin designs, I think those from Estonia are the most dull. It's not so much that it's just a map of the country, but why have the same design on all eight denominations?

Your opinion is shared - this is one of my least if not the least pretty of Swedish coin designs issued. The only real contestant is the backside of 1-2-5 Öre coins issued 1952-1971, but I think they have the upper hand:


Otherwise, I wouldn't be true to my country without taking a swipe at Denmark, but for good reasons. Now, one would ideally like to portray their monarch as royally as possible but Denmark decided not once, but twice to put mummified depictions of the Queen on the 10 and 20 Kroner coins which you can find in circulation today.

This thing.

It's a 1 denar from my west neighbor- N. Macedonia.
The only good thing in this coin is the dog. The design is dumb, but I love the cute dog in the reverse.

Yep!

@MICHAELSH...Heads or tails, the dog should have been heads.