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New Member
United States
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Hi, I've recently got into coin collecting and whilst I'm a recent college graduate with a liberal arts degree (ie, I don't have any money :p) I do enjoy looking at NCLT online and such. I was wondering what countries, in your opinion, produce the overall most tasteful NCLT? That is, coins that are well-designed, relevant to the issuing country, and so on.
From what I've seen, I'd say the US and Poland do a pretty good job.
I'm asking because there's a lot of tacky stuff out there and it can be daunting to sort through.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Your going to have to wait until the world coin members see this thread. I only know
that the U.S. coinage has some beautiful designs on some of our denominations.
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Moderator
 United States
23550 Posts |
Check out Australian Coins from both the Pert Mint and the Royal Australian Mint
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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RCM (Canadian mint) has many great designs but are over priced.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2543 Posts |
Think that Israel issues some of the most beautiful coins. Also can't overlook the Austrian Niobium Bimetallic series.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21788 Posts |
British Royal Mint issues some nice NCLT in all metals. They have a long tradition of coin design as an inspriation to back the design of modern NCLT's. As a genre, my favorites are still U.S. neo classic coins, in all metals, intended for circulation. |
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Australia
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My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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United States
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Don't overlook the gold bullion coins from Mexico, especially the 50 Peso.
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Canada
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Austrian designs are almost always tasteful and relevant. The Austrian Mint has really made a good name for itself with its popular euro coin series. My opinion on Canadian NCLT won't be impartial for obvious reasons. They make too much of it. Most Canadian coins have lovely designs, but a few are just silly gimmicks and there is a worrying trend of coins that are only tangentially related to Canada - Superman and Looney Tunes are slightly Canadian but only the most fervent nationalist would press that claim any further, and do Canadian nationalists even exist? So the recent Superman and Looney Tunes coins just seem like bad excuses to cash in on other franchises and this is a slippery slope - at the bottom of that slippery slope is Niue. Also, even a partially complete set of Canadian NCLT is now far beyond the reach of any collector because of the excessive rate of new issues, which is a turn-off. I like the Ibero-American Series of coins, an ongoing collaborative effort between Spain, Portugal, and those countries' many former colonies in North and South America. These countries have a very rich coinage history, so the Ibero-American designs are almost always impressive. http://www.coin-database.com/series...-series.htmlhttp://news.coinupdate.com/historic...er-set-1012/Mexico also issues some very interesting bimetallic MXP100 coins in numerous series. The earlier issues were nominally for circulation, but they were actually unpopular despite their silver content (they are pretty large and heavy, plus the silver content is not proportional compared with earlier bimetallic silver Mexican issues so many average Mexicans felt that these coins were rip-offs). Now they are entirely NIFC but still worth checking out. |
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Australia
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I've always found that Singapore (i.e. the Singapore Mint) to be an excellent example of the way a small country "should" do coinage: high quality (both circulating and NCLT), fairly low volumes (not flooding the marketplace with containerloads of coins nobody wants) and commemoratives that are thematically relevant to the country.
It should be pointed out that points 2 and 3 are linked: the larger the number of different coin designs that are churned out by a country, the harder it becomes to find additional "relevant" themes worthy of commemoration on a coin.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
United States
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Canada is good. Sweden (or was it Denmark?) and South Korea.  |
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United States
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I also think the Austrian Mint does a great job. Good themes, very detailed and well-composed designs, and I have never had any quality control issues. My second choice would be Israel.
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Posted 05/25/2015 5:50 pm
