Soccer on coins

[SquareEarth]

China, 1 Jiao, 1987, Soccer, 6th National Game.

[bagerap]

It really is not my sport. The ball is the wrong shape for a start, but I've only just noticed this thread and I'm surprised that the Uganda 2002 silver crown size haven't yet made an appearance. Nearly one ounce of silver.

Common reverse

[bagerap]

[bagerap]

Another of the Ugandan 1000 shillings

[Bimat]

France €10 (Silver) and €100 (Gold), dated 2016: UEFA Euro 2016.





Aditya

[Bimat]

France €2 (2016): UEFA Euro 2016.



Aditya

[drlaparo]

Venezuela has some token from the COPA AMERICA 2007...I show you 2 of my collection...

Soccer in the coins, tokens, Banknotes is my Collection theme...I share my collection album with you... If you have any soccer coin that i dont have the swap is welcome...

https://www.facebook.com/NotafiliaCCD/media_set?set=a.254430711555220.1073741864.100009648792505&type=3

[Figleaf]

Original collecting theme, driaparo. How were these medals distributed? Were they issued by FVF?

Peter

[<k>]

Suriname, 100 guilders, 1994.

This coin is .999 copper-nickel. 

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Jamaica, $25 and $100, 1998.  Football: World Championship, France, 1998.

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Haiti, 25 gourdes, 1973.  World Cup 1974.

The football star on the right looks vaguely familiar. Can anybody identify him?

[chrisild]

Ah, those two are Tip and Tap.

Christian

[<k>]

Tip and Tap. Is there anything you DON'T know? 

[chrisild]

Those two mascots I found horrible, that is why I remember them so well. What I also found interesting was that back then Germany issued coins for the 1972 Olympics but not for the 1974 World Cup.

Christian

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United Arab Emirates, 1 dirham, 1990.    FIFA World Cup, Italy.

Here is another football coin with a fictional mascot. This time it's a falcon. Yes, a falcon that is playing football.

Every time I see an image of this design, its ugliness startles me. There is a long history of humans dressing up animals in human clothes. It is done in order to make them look comic or cute, so that they amuse their human friends. Usually it is done to mammals, and in particular to dogs, which at least have four limbs, as do we humans.

Here however, a falcon is dressed up in a football t-shirt, shorts and football boots. The result does not look comical or cute, but simply grotesque. In real life it would be cruel to force a bird's wings into a T-shirt. To see this bird's tiny legs twisted into shorts looks both hideous and ridiculous. The Arab headdress on the falcon adds another touch of tasteless incongruity. The falcon's face certainly does not look cute. It has the usual severe, staring, beady-eyed, sharp-beaked predator look of a falcon. The cruel face and the outstretched wings somehow stir base human instincts of fear and disgust within me. This has the same effect on me as the crows in Hitchcock's horror film 'The Birds'.

The out-of-placeness of animals in human clothing can inspire affectionate amusement. Another word for out-of-placeness is liminality, where a phenomenon crosses boundaries or categories. This is often seen in horror films or stories and is sometimes described by the concept of 'betwixt and between'. For instance, Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and zombies are all situated somewhere between life and death. They cross boundaries in an unnatural way that breaks taboos and terrifies humans. The ugliness of this fierce hawk, that has been dressed in ill-fitting human clothes, inspires a similarly unsettling sense of liminality for me. I wonder just what kind of unbalanced person or artist would have conjured up such a grotesque vision to symbolise a much-loved human sport.

The only coin design that rivals this UAE design in ugliness, in my opinion, is this one here in which the woman looks like a member of the undead:

Sudan, 1 pound, 1978.  Peasant woman tanning animal skins.