New £2 coin design
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- BaskerviIle
I'm actually surprised but this new design for a £2 coin is really lovely. I love that letterpress has made it onto our currency, even if it is via the bible:
- detritus0
Oh hey, that's pretty nice visually, and really clever (imo) way of celebrating our unavoidably-religious history in a fashion that's engaging, inoffensive and inclusive.
- Nope. I am offended.
Ah demand-a, a-restitution, sah..mikotondria3
- Nope. I am offended.
- LukeO0
It's growing on me. Still not keen on the type overlapping the silver/gold areas - maybe it looks better in person/in hand.
- pillhead0
That is really nice, love the type effect.
- vivid0
wonder how much that cost? :]
- Hench0
Nice, I like it. Interesting also that scientifically that statement could indeed be correct.
- HAYZ1LLA0
I'll buy that work of art off you for £1.
- digdre0
What I'm saying is, that the rest of Europe now is going to UK, and pay with 1€ coins, and rip the shit out of you guys and no once is going to notice
- size is a tad different but nice tryhans_glib
- * tries anyway...ian
- not so much, the 5c /1p switch is pretty common though.kingsteven
- digdre0
- no offense bro but everything you've said in this thread so far has been pretty dumb ; )Hench
- Lol henchaanderton
- Hench, you're on a roll!doublespaced
- you are lucky I don't ban youdigdre
- OSFA0
I likey!!!
- d0mino0
awesome design.
- DaveO0
I like it a lot. I'd like it better if the type said – "In the beginning there was, WORD" and on the back it had a picture of Biggie instead of the Queen.
- mikotondria30
What a bunch of crap.
In the beginning was the word ? Is the best they can come up with ?Fuck that shit. Celebrate your own stupid religious heritage in a your own draughty unkept houses of worship, keep this bogus falsehood off my money. The fucking nerve of it, countless generations of my ancestors toiled their short days in fear and poverty under the yoke of the church in its various guises, it's at best bad taste and at worst a deliberate recidivist poke in the eye from the ruling classes moking us for at least pretending the Enlightenment had any effect.
Seriously, fuck off.
I was forced to spend hundreds of confused hours in my state/church run school as a child droning endless 'hymns' of the Wesleyian type of nonsense - think endless permutations of His sacrificing for ME the lowly flock-member, servant of almighty, thrice said thee, thine pilgrim me, type shit, and I escape that and bound away into what I was lead to believe was a largely secular world - should I so choose, and I'm haunted by this pervasively weird servile blood and guilt cult.
Enough, already. Just write 2 pounds in an agreeable typeface and we'll call it quits. Everytime it's used most of it's tax anyway, so just fucking write 1 pound 20 on it, and be a bit more honest.
In the beginning was the word - really ? And who told you this, and who are you, to write this and tell me ?
- appalled0
"I love that letterpress has made it onto our currency"
Letterpress printing is relief printing of text and image using a press with a "type-high bed" printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image
embossing is a process for producing raised or sunken designs or relief in sheet metal. This process can be made by means of matched male and female roller dies, or by passing sheet or a strip of metal between rolls of the desired pattern.
FOR! FUCK! SAKES!
ignorance is running rampant- Congratulations on confirming, again, the abyssal depths of your bitter, socially-retarded stupidity.detritus
- i get it from watching youappalled
- i'd rather not be part of your 1 manned clique than be ignorant to production processesappalled
- besides, shouldn't you be playing minecraft?appalled
- Which comeback is it? The childish one, the malformed one, or the dig at something entirely unrelated?Coward