Beads and dentillations on coins

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Generally, I consider the use of beads and denticles on the obverse to be unnecessary.
Their inclusion on the reverse, to my mind, is dependent on complexity of design.
Minimal designs benefit from their added decoration value.

Well said, Deeman. Unnecessary and old-fashioned is my view.

[<k>]

These rings have of course lost their technical function, so that they are now a design element only, subject to considerations such as how busy the design is and how traditionalist the sponsors (government, minister, committee etc.) are.

I suspect that coins with bead circles are far less common these days. As for denticles, I believe they are still common enough.

[<k>]

Subtly different types around the outer circle of the first Malaysian coin series (1967 to the mid-1980s).

These appeared on both sides of the coins. Subsequent series dispensed with beads, denticles, or anything similar.


See: Coinage of Malaysia.

[<k>]

Colombia, 500 pesos, 2012.  Beads on the obverse but not on the reverse.

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Colombia, 1000 pesos, 2012.  Beads on the reverse and an inner semi-circle of beads on the obverse.

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Indonesia never used beads or denticles, to my knowledge, until recently.

The 100 rupiah coins of 2010 and 2016 have beads on the reverse and obverse respectively. No other coins of these series use beads.

[<k>]

Austria, 2 schilling, 1946.  Unusual shapes at the outer circle.

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Austria, 5 schilling, 1952.

Once again, you have different treatments on obverse and reverse.

[<k>]

Austria, 20 schilling, 1980.

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Indonesia, 500 rupiah, 1993 - unadopted version.


Below, the regular circulation coin.

[<k>]

Above: Thailand, 5 baht, 1972. Issued coin with bead circle.


Below: Thailand, 5 baht, 1972. Trial version. The beads follow the sides of the coin.

[<k>]

The Angola set of 1999 had beads on the reverse of the 1, 2 and 5 kwanzas coins but nowhere else.

[<k>]

Uruguay, 20 centesimos, 1930.  Unusual shapes around the rim.

[Figleaf]

Turin was a French coin designer, whose style was Art Nouveau - stylised figures from nature. The ears of wheat are an excellent example of this style. It shows how after a long and increasingly boring reign of a derived art style, neo-classicism, originality made a come-back. Art Nouveau can be thought of as a first step in the direction of abstract art.

Peter

[<k>]

Yugoslavia, 50 dinara, 1993.

The late, unlamented Yugoslavia.

And 1993, when terrible atrocities were taking place in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.