French 10 Euro Coin on Molière's Play L'avare

This French 10 Euro coin honors Molière's play L'avare (The Miser).

French 10 Euro Coin on Voltaire's Novel Candide

This French 10 Euro coin honors Voltaire's Candide. With both of these coins, the reverse isin a more classic style, while the obverse portraits are less detailed and make use of negativespace. Interesting combination.

Finland 10 Euro coin on sculptor Emil Wikstrom

This commemorative coin on sculptor Emil Wikstrom takes the minimalist route. That doesn'talways work on a coin, but I think it does here.

Belgium 20 Euro on Berlin Wall

Has it been 25 years already? This Belgian piece commemorates the 25th anniversary of the fallof the Berlin wall. It's an important topic for commemoration. I'm not sure I could havecome up with anything better, but this design doesn't move me. I think it's the absence ofpeople. The real drama of the event was the freeing of an imprisoned people.

Two America the Beautiful Quarters

Thanks to Pabitra for sending all the new coin designs. Here are two from another source.Coin Update , where Michael Zielinski published an article on October 7, 2014 about recentdesign candidate selections by the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) for the 2016 America the BeautifulQuarters series.

To read the complete article, see:
CFARecommendations for 2016 America the Beautiful Quarters(news.coinupdate.com/cfa-recommendations-for-america-the-beautiful-quarters-4508/)