Texture on coins

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Texture on coins can be used in various ways, in order to give a coin a different look or to suggest perspective.

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UK, 5 pence, 2009.

Superb and complex texturing is used on this coin.

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Argentina, 10 pesos.  Circulation coin.

The plant designs on the current Argentine circulation coins are rather simplistic - deliberately so. This style is called 'naive' - or 'faux naive'.

The diagonal shading on the tree helps to give this simple design a little more depth.

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Beautiful texturing on this UK commemorative circulating 50 pence coin of 2016: Team GB.

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Cameroon, 100 francs, 1966.  Textured numerals.

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Russia, 10 rubles, 2016.

Here you see vertical shading behind the denomination numerals, but horizontal shading within the zero.

This is interesting but would be illogical in a real situation, if the inside of the zero were meant to be transparent.

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Uruguay 1 peso 1994, km103.1 granulated versus plain?

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Belgium, 5 centimes, 1894.

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Belgium during the Nazi occupation. 5 francs, zinc, 1941.

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Algeria: 100 dinar 2018, but the only coin I've seen with 3 different date systems AD (2018), AH (1440) and Berberdate (2968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berber_calendar#:~:text=El%20Azara%20%28Arabic%3A%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9%20%E2%80%8E%29%20is%20the%20period,known%20by%20a%20climate%20sometimes%20hot%2C%20sometimes%20cold.

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Seychelles, 5 cents, 2007.

A honey-combed texture appears on this product of the Pobjoy Mint.

Does anybody know why?

[andyg]

I always liked the middles of the letters on the 1821/22 Crowns.

[andyg]

A similar effect can be seen on this coin from China,