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I love art deco. It is my favourite art movement. I have a big collection of art deco related items from the 1920s to the 1950s, however, I have no art deco coins. I am aware of art deco tokens and souvenir coins, but I am not aware of any general circulation art deco coin designs. Can you share some art deco coin designs with me, please? Whether they are in fact general circulation coins or not is not that important, I would like to see any art deco coins, and possibly see some I might want to add to my collection.
A very brief description of Art Deco for those who might not know: Art Deco was the dominant art, architectural and design style of a large portion of the early half of the 20th century. It is considered to have spawned just after WW1 due to the desire to have a more powerful and modern style than the predecessor Art Nouveau (which was far more romantic and used natural elements like flowers) Art Deco gets its name from the 1925 Exhibition of Industrial, Modern and Decorative Arts in Paris, although the style itself predates this. Art Deco makes use of symmetry and geometry and often simple designs with complex precision. Common elements of art deco include sunbursts, repeating geometric patterns, pinstriped frames, themes of power and progress, and very large scale (as art deco came about at the same time as the first modern skyscrapers, New York, for instance, is considered an art deco city)
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Pillar of the Community
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Art deco eagle on this 1936 Bridgeport commemorative half dollar  
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Pillar of the Community
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The 1935 Connecticut half dollar commem has an Art Deco eagle design.
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 United States
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@ellie, first welcome to CCF. Second, if you use the keywords ART DECO in the CCF search box, you will see several prior threads which mention one or more design elements that are art deco. One such example is the 2024 Olympic Handover medallion: https://goccf.com/t/469200
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New Member
 Ireland
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Nothing about that design is art deco.
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New Member
 Ireland
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I hope my thread doesn't get ignored, this is kind of the sole reason I created my account here.
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Valued Member
United States
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I love art deco as well, I believe the Peace dollar is a strong contender. Now you've got me curious, I'll have to flip through my albums later... The symmetrical design with sharp angles on the 10 Reichspfennig is somewhat art deco IMO, as well as the 9 & 2 of the date:   (Old pic, ignore the 2 Reichspfennigs  )
Edited by MintedNotPrinted Yesterday 3:47 pm
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Valued Member
United States
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1923 Japan 50 Sen is another contender, symmetrical design with great sunburst:   The 10 sen of the same year as well, to a degree: 
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Quote: Nothing about that design is art deco. That is fair pushback as the folks in that specific thread concluded it that one of the fonts was actually more similar to art nouveau rather than art deco. The search methodology is sound though. You should try it.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz
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Bedrock of the Community
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Going a little wider on this topic, The exonumia world has some cool art deco examples, this one from 1950 by Medallic Arts. Image below from Rubylane... 
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Here are a few from the Netherlands (not entirely sure if they qualify, because of the dates on the coins - and 'Art Deco flourished during the 1920s and 1930s.  ) but they DO have geometry art designs to them. 1995 Aruba - 10 Cents 
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 United States
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1994 Netherlands - 1 Gulden 
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1990 Netherlands - 25 Cents 
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