Occupations: Industry and Mining

[<k>]

Luxembourg, 2 franc, 1924.  A puddler.

[<k>]

Belgium. 50 centimes, 1965.    A coal miner.

[Ukrainii Pyat]

Blacksmith:



A peasant and a factory worker:

[<k>]

Excellent designs. Communists, capitalists, democrats, all agree on one thing: the desirability of industrialisation. Apart from Pol Pot, nominally a communist too, who abolished money and drove everyone back to the land: Year Zero.

[Figleaf]

Not a coin, but a counter, showing a teacher with a counting table and an alphabet book.

Reading, writing, 'rithmetic.

Peter

[chrisild]

Why am I not surprised? Back to "those" occupations, here is a series (images: muenzenfreund.net) of four Austrian silver 500 schilling collector coins, issued in 1997/98. They depict, from left to right, a blacksmith, a stonemason, a printer and a goldsmith.



Christian

[Prosit]

Found it!  Der Goldschmied (The Goldsmith), 22.2000g, 37mm, 0.9250 Silver.

They were struck in three finishes:

Normal Finish Mintage 125 thousand
Special Uncirculated (Handgehoben) Mintage 17 thousand
Proof Mintage 35 thousand (Polierte Platte)

Mine is the first type.
If I remember correctly you could pick them up at the bank.

Austria also issued a 100 ATS with a Salt miner on it.

I think I actually have one of those pesky 500ATS.  Goldsmith, I think, but I haven't looked at that coin in years. Will see if I can find it.Dale

[WillieBoyd2]

Miner

[<k>]

Norway, 5 kroner, 1975.  100 years of the krone.

A moneyer striking coins, with a balance scale in the background.

[<k>]

Guyana, 10 dollars, 1996.  Gold miner.

[<k>]

German Democratic Republic, 20 Mark, 1979.  30th anniversary of the Republic.  Construction workers.

[chrisild]

50th anniversary of Saarland joining the Federal Republic of Germany.

The four heads represent mining, industry, science and culture.

Christian

[<k>]

West African States, 25 francs, 1980.  Agricultural lab technician.

[Figleaf]

Luxembourg, 2 franc, 1924.  A puddler.

I think you are quite right, but KM says "Man working field".

Peter

[<k>]

Barbados, $20, 1985.  Decade for Women.  Teacher.