Post your ugliest coin(s)!

In another idea that was totally not stolen from the French side, show us your ugliest coin (or coins!). Doesn't matter if they're ugly because of circulation, or ugly because of lack of aesthetic appeal; just post them if you think your coin is hideous! (Anyone want to place bets on whose bust we might see?)

I'll get the ball rolling with some early British coppers; these are some of the first coins I ever bought, way back when I first started "collecting" per se (when I was around 12-13) and didn't care about grades or value. I rarely buy coins in conditions like these anymore (unless it's a scarce type otherwise), but these coins are still part of my collection:


1806 United Kingdom 1 Penny - George III
The reverse is relatively OK, but the bust is obliterated by corrosion, verdigris and pitting. Not like George III was much of a looker to begin with, but this doesn't exactly help.


1724 United Kingdom 1/2 Penny - George I
Another very worn British coin I have; this one cost me exactly £5. At least it's still identifiable.


1678 Scotland 1 Bawbee - Charles II
This one was on the brink of being unidentifiable, but the thistle helped me pin it to Scotland, the bust matches up with Charles II's, and the date of 1678 is just visible.

I'll look for a few more in my continental Europe collection once I get back.

1720 - United Kingdom - George I - ½ Penny
I raise your worn George with a worn and pitted one

1855 - Spain - Isabel II- 25 Centimos
quite worn and acid cleaned

My collection of royals with head damage:
1824 - Prussia - Friedrich Wilhelm III- 1 Silber Groschen
shotgun wound to right hemisphere

1861 - Vittorio Emanuele II - 5 Centesimi
severe jaw trauma

1863 - Vittorio Emanuele II - 20 Centesimi
after recovery attacked with multiple blows to the head

The folowing coins were gifts from generous Numista members so I don't realy care that they look like this
1520s - Venice - 1 Bagattino

1934 - New Zealand - George V - 1 Florin

Verweis : "CassTaylor"​ (Anyone want to place bets on whose bust we might see?)
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Was only a matter of time before the Hogmouth made an appearance.


Leopold I 1693 15 Kreuzer​

I'll post my Susan B or my special Olympics silver later.

I bought a lot of these Italian 10c. coins a while back. One of them is so far gone you can't read a thing on it.

I don't have the heart to bin it. so it remains with the others.
Another one got some serious oxidation pitting, but was then acid cleaned and polished

I got these in change. ruined proofs. not sure why I have kept them. ugly.

I never throw anything away...So...(My phone broke, no pictures this time)

1. A moldy penny from the 90s. A horrible coin.
2. Another moldy coin, a 10 Penniä from the 90s.
3. Maybe its normal, but this one I own is really circulated: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces86179.html with spots etc.
4. Not a bad find (Im possibly the only one to own this coin in numista) but I managed to buy it for pocket money as the last owner did not know what coin it was. Nothing left on the reverse, but the obverse side looks better. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces127305.html

(My worst, if I could include tokens which I do not know, would be a very circulated black https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces46107.html )

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Verweis : "CassTaylor"​ (Anyone want to place bets on whose bust we might see?)
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​Leopold I 1693 15 Kreuzer​

​That's what inbreeding does.

Verweis : "CassTaylor"​

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​Atleast he has a cool moustache and a cool hat. Also pretty cool hair.

@Monninen
True... well, I think it is a wig (as per the fashion for men in the mid/late 17th and 18th centuries).

Anyway, a few more ugly coins I couldn't bear to throw out either:

1821 Frankfurt (am Main) 1 Heller
Obviously this coin is very worn, but it's also got some iridescent rainbow tones all about (as the photo shows somewhat). So I guess that makes up for it to some extent.


1812 Spanish States (Majorca) 12 Dineros - Ferdinand VII
Following the theme of monarchs suffering head trauma, here is Ferdinand VII of Spain with a long scar down his cheek. Bought at a Spanish Sunday flea market.


ND (1912) China - Republic (Fookien) 10 Cash
I only bought this one because it's quite a scarce type; otherwise I would have passed on it.

1 US cent year ? / Brazilian 100 Reis 18??
Brazilian 200 Reis 1901 / 100 Reis year?

Anyone interested in swapping these ones?

This is a fine coin, in the center of my interests, but that fish thing is hideous, I wish they had not chosen it for a mascot.

United States -- 1797 1/2 cent:




United States -- 1796 1 cent:



(These are scanned-in film prints from decades ago.)

Verweis : "Mr. Midnight"​This is a fine coin, in the center of my interests, but that fish thing is hideous, I wish they had not chosen it for a mascot.
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​It's a West African traditional depiction of a sawfish I believe, which looks fairly prehistoric anyway:

(It's also quite endangered)

I don't find all those coins ugly. Or at least most of them are not ugly. For most part, they have nice designs and they look old just because they are old.
Maybe peoples' judgements about ugliness are dependent on the knowledge of pricing and affordability?

Verweis : "numinis"​Maybe peoples' judgements about ugliness are dependent on the knowledge of pricing and affordability?

​I think you're on to something there. The coins originally that I had in mind were those coins you have in your collection that are barely identifiable, but you can't bear to throw them away either.

I'll move on to a few unfortunate aesthetic portraits then:

Louis XVIII of France (1814-15, 1815-24)
I've written before about how this Bourbon monarch, restored twice to the French throne by the Allies, was gout-ridden and diseased for most of his reign; nicknamed the "Fat Pig" by Bonapartists.


George III of Great Britain (of the UK form 1801 onwards; 1760-1820)
This was the first portrait of George III that featured on British coins during the Great Recoinage of 1816, which set a standard that would last well into the 20th century; this "Bull head" bust of George III reportedly earned his ire, and another portrait was engraved afterwards; but by this point in his life the monarch was mostly blind and deaf, not to mention dementia ridden.


Marianne
This particular portrait of Marianne I particularly detest. It has all the simplicity of modernism, and yet lacks any charm or captivity at all.

For some reason out of all the QE2 designs for circulating British coins I loath this the most:


https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4038.html - (4th portrait)

I have a Colombia 1000 Pesos coin from 1996 and one side looks like the engraver quit after doing half the job and the line that seperates the two halves is not straight. It looks like half token and half blank.

I recently got this coin:


Apart from where it was once attached to some jewellery or something, it's actually pretty good looking; but Charles II seems to be taking his lips from the Habsburgs.

Verweis : "CassTaylor"​I recently got this coin:
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​Apart from where it was once attached to some jewellery or something, it's actually pretty good looking; but Charles II seems to be taking his lips from the Habsburgs.

​Hey I have big lips and I am sure not inbred - just Mixed race!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that hammered coin of Charles (1660 - 1667 tuppence) is quite nice.
Some of those coppers are ugly, get the verdigris and the staining.
Also ugly are 1920 - 1946 New Zealand and British silver coins, which when worn leach green verdigris too as the coins are 50% copper and were silver coated.

The shillings above were all worn and the G4 one attacked, so I sold them off. G3 looks less flattering when he is a silhouette.