Beads and denticles on coins

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Quote from: Deeman on August 04, 2020, 09:34:10 AM
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.
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Quote from: Figleaf on August 04, 2020, 10:03:56 AM
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.
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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.
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#63
Colombia 500 pesos 2012.jpg

Colombia, 500 pesos, 2012.  Beads on the obverse but not on the reverse.
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#64
Colombia 1000 pesos 2012.jpg

Colombia, 1000 pesos, 2012. 


Beads on the reverse and an inner semi-circle of beads on the obverse.
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Indonesia.jpg


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 this series use beads.
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Austria, 2 schilling, 1946.  Unusual shapes at the outer circle.
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#67
Austria 5 schilling 1952.jpg

Austria, 5 schilling, 1952.

Once again, you have different treatments on obverse and reverse.
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#69


Indonesia, 500 rupiah, 1993 - unadopted version.


Indonesia 500 rupiah 1992.jpg

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


Thailand trial, 1972.jpg

Thailand, 5 baht, 1972. Trial version. The beads follow the sides of the coin.
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The Angola set of 1999 had beads on the reverse of the 1, 2 and 5 kwanzas coins but nowhere else.
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#72
Uruguay 20 centesimos 1930.jpg

Uruguay, 20 centesimos, 1930.  Unusual shapes around the rim.
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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
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

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#74
Yugoslavia 50 dinara 1993.jpg

Yugoslavia, 50 dinara, 1993.


The late, unlamented Yugoslavia.

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