An alphabet of favourite national designs

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Turks and Caicos, 5 crowns, 1975.  Turk's head cactus.

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Tuvalu, $20, 1993.  HMS Royalist.

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Uganda, 5 shillings, 1972.  A crowned crane against the background of Mount Muhavura, an extinct volcano.

Heptagon - bonus!

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Ukraine, 2 hryvnia, 2015.   120 years of Kharkiv Zoo.

Animals against the cityscape.

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United Arab Emirates, 25 fils.  Dune gazelle.

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UK, 2 pounds, 2016.  The Great Fire of London.

The scene is depicted in the style of those times.

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USA, 5 cents, 2005 - making bison great again!

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Uruguay, 1 peso, 1942.   Mountain lion.

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Vanuatu, 20 vatu, 1983.  Coconut crab, palm trees - superb design.

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Venezuela, 75 bolivares, 1980.  150th anniversary of the death of Simón Bolivar.

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Yemen, 10 rials, 1993.

The Shahara Bridge, Yemen, was built in the 17th century.

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Zambia, 20 ngwee, 1985.   20th anniversary of the Bank of Zambia.

 

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Zimbabwe, $2, 1997.  A pangolin.

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So, another long journey, with some omissions.

I hope you enjoyed the show and saw a few designs you'd never seen before. 

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San Marino, 2 lire, 1974.  Beetle.


I am revisiting this design because, after all this time, all the reference books describe the insect as simply a beetle. Yet it looks very specific. Does anybody know its species or know somebody who could identify it?