The Most Beautiful Modern(Ish) Circulation Coin

I do like that.

Picking up a Shilling today and it's a pretty nice coin.

I will actually say that I don't think the silver 5 DM is that pretty. The obverse design simply contains an eagle with noting else on it, the reverse simply contains lettering. I was actually a bit horrified at how bad I thought it looked. Though, that's my opinion. Perhaps there's beauty in its simplicity?

One of the coins I'm also surprised hasn't shown up here is the somewhat new Uruguayan 10 Peso coins:

Quite spectacular, isn't it? Rays can make any design look amazing.

Another new series that I'd very much like to have is the new Seychelles coin series. A coin not only being an odd shape, but also being bimetallic really adds to the look of a coin.


Lastly, I feel like I must add the new UK £2. I really like the new depiction of Brittania. Although I highly critizice the removal of the latent image from what used to be the centre, the new design makes up for it until you get handed a fake.

Thanks for the comments jbuck and X2an
Aside from the simplicity of the designs on the German 5 Mark coin I also like:
The symmetry of the designs on the obverse and reverse of the coin.
The stylised eagle.
The way that the draughtsman style lettering is arranged on the reverse. To me the layout of the lettering has an artistic quality about it.
I understand that what is beautiful and "speaks" to one person may leave another person "cold". That is because "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

I have attached another "beautiful" coin from my collection, from a "heroic age". I think the eagle design is very "noble", and I think that John F Kennedy was an inspired president - a real "World Leader".
I find his Cold War speech "Ich bin ein Berliner" to the besieged citizens of West Berlin really inspiring. Of human solidarity cutting right across national boundaries.
And his speech "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth" sends a shiver down my spine.
So the coin owes a part of its beauty from its origin - from out of a heroic age...

Squire

Just picked up this Shilling and really liked the detail and design.

I am not sure the designer intended it, but the simple eagle design harkens back to coin designs from 500 years earlier in central Europe, which are being discussed in another thread on this forum:
http://goccf.com/t/308457

That doesn';t reflect on the coin's beauty, but I like the historical connection, whether intended or not.

Surprised that no one has brought up Canada's 2017 Anniversary makeover. The dime reverse is beautiful. (Nothing against the Queen)

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces105411.html

...here is another one of my "beauties". An Israeli 10 Lirot coin from 1968. When I looked at it within the world album in the coin shop it gave me a dazzling smile, so I could not resist it...

I particularly like the obverse, with the skyline silhouette of Jerusalem.

The coin is slightly concave, so maybe this makes it more difficult to lose...

Squire