Strange Coins and Currency of the World

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This one came through the till yesterday. I don't remember seeing it before.



And I've had two of these now.

Still only get a few of these despite them being out since 2015.

This one's still my favourite

^ King Harold doesn't look too upset there, considering he has an arrow sticking into his eye....

It's not in his eye, he's using the arrow to scratch an itch on his forehead that's been bothering him all through the battle. He couldn't get at it with his gauntlets on. We've been completely misunderstanding the Bayeux tapestries for years.



I think what really happened is one of the little lions or the L over his head fell, knocked him unconscious and he got trampled by the horse.

Oopsy daisy, who gave the horses mead?

Well this is certainly dramatic. Reminds me of the famous ancient Nefertiti bust.



https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-relea ... -august-15

I hear some Mints use 9999 purity and some use 99999. Why is that?

Oooh, we're going to have a quarter with a bat on it next year.



https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-relea ... rs-program

Can't say I care much for this design. It's supposed to be a boat coming over the rapids (I think) but it looks more like an indeterminate object wedged onto some rocks. Due out in November.

^ The drawing is much clearer – I didn't even notice there was a person in the boat! A good example maybe of an artist skilled in one medium (drawing) whose talents didn't transfer to a different medium (die engraving).

New one-ounce palladium coin from the US Mint, with the classic Mercury Dime (Winged Liberty) obverse, and a new reverse. I always liked the Mercury Dimes, so it's nice to see the design reappear.



https://catalog.usmint.gov/american-eag ... -19EK.html

I don't use Instagram and you can't really embed anything from it, but the US Mint has a new Instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/unitedstatesmint/