Meaning in Coinage
In the past few years, Canadian coins have improved from the bland loonie/quarter/nickle/dime of my youth. But this sucker is beyond awesome.
The five euro coin has layers of symbolism than a Masonic lodge. It commemorates Dutch architecture by showing the queen’s face in bolded letters made from a spiral of architect’s names (as ordered by internet popularity). It indicates Dutchlandthe Netherlands by showing a map of country in an outline of books spines by/about (you guessed it) Dutch architects. Within the map, there are a series of birds, each indicating the capitol of each province. Each bird is the province’s bird, natch.
And the kicker? It was designed solely with open source software. (I don’t really think it matters, but the designer seems to care about it)
