Musicians On Coins - Post Your Examples

I realize that they are not in the same category, but the Mint did strike a series that commemorated American artists from multiple categories.

You can check out a discussion of the series here:

- American Arts Medallions

Excellent!

Beautiful!

Outstanding!

After completing the Ukrainian series, I am now focusing on composers from Poland.
The first two coins feature Francois Chopin (1810-1849) and Ignacy Paderewski (1860-1941), respectively.




More coins of Polish composers will follow in the coming weeks and months.

Though his claims to fame lie elsewhere - American Independence advocate, author, Governor, Secretary of State, President - Thomas Jefferson was also an accomplished amateur violinist with an appreciation of classical music.

Here is the 1994 Thomas Jefferson commemorative silver dollar. It was struck "in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson." As Jefferson was born in 1743, the year of issue should have been 1993, but that's a story for another post.




For more details on this coin, including why it was struck in 1994 vs. 1993, see:

- 1994 Thomas Jefferson 250th Anniversary of Birth Silver Dollar

Thanks, @commems.
I recently was reviewing commemorative coin series and noticed it is very rare to find anything pre-1900.
I am aware of the Swiss Shooting Thalers minted from 1842, and of course the American Classic Commemoratives (from 1892), but apart from these two there apparently was not much interest in creating commemorative coins according to with a certain theme.
Yes, you had the "Jubilee this and Jubilee that" coins from the UK, but these coins were struck for the occasion. There are no "Classic Commemorative Coins of the UK" pre-1900 as far as I know. And that goes for pretty much most of the countries in the world.