Clouds on coins

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Bhutan, 200 ngultrum, 1981.

[quaziright]

I could ask you the same thing, when have you ever seen one giant cloud like that.
It looks more like the Fort canning hill which is covered by trees.

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Turks and Caicos, 5 crowns, 2001. 

100th Anniversary of Royal Navy Submarines.

Clouds and submarines.

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Mongolia, 25, 50 and 750 tugrik, 1976.  World Wildlife Fund issue.

The strange clouds of Mongolia.

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UK, 50 pence, 1994.  50th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings.


On a scale of 1 to 10, how realistic do these clouds look?

[chrisild]

About as realistic as the waves of the sea. All in all, the design is not bad, quite dynamic. I think it would have "worked" even without those pseudo-clouds ...

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Isle of Man, 2 pounds, 1989.

Fly, fly, in the sky.

Fly up high, in the sky.

See some clouds

Before you die.


PLUNGE.

Eek!

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Singapore, 1 cent, 1967.  Numista N# 3827.

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Transnistria, 25 rubles, 2000.    N# 31021. T

Tenth Anniversary of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic.

The most unrealistic clouds yet?

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Canada, 25 cents, 2005.   Western Meadowlark.   N# 357.

Notice the clouds in the background.

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UK, 5 pounds, 2014.  Centenary of the First World War. Home front.   N# 62714.


And clouds. As an American once said, "In England you have three months of poor weather - followed by the winter!" 

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USA, half dollar, 1936.

Very strange clouds they have in the US of A.

[bart]

Some Tibetan 5 sho pieces (Y28.1 and Y28a)

[chrisild]

Very strange clouds they have in the US of A.

Ah well, Delaware is a relatively small state, so they have relatively small clouds.   The building depicted is the Old Swedes Church in Wilmington, and I suppose the cloud has some religious relevance. You can find many coins and medals (mostly but not only with a Lutheran background) from, say, the 1700s, with a hand coming out of a cloud. Here are three different ones; links only, sorry. God's eye surrounded by clouds. Rain and clouds symbolizing bad harvests and starvation (followed by a better year on the other side). And talking about strangely shaped clouds, in Mannheim they even had clouds with hands.

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Anguilla, ½ dollar, 1970.  Saint Mary's church.

Collector coin of the rebel island during its period of illegal independence.

When did clouds ever look like that?