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Thursday Humor: Greece Wins Contest To Design New Euro Coin
If, like us, you assumed that Greece’s move to effectively take out a loan from the IMF to pay back a previous IMF loan represented peak absurdity in the increasingly tense standoff between Athens and its creditors you would have been wrong because as you can see from the below, an engraver from the Bank of Greece has just won a contest to design a €2 commemorative coin.
From the EU:
This is the fourth time the euro-area members have decided to collectively issue a commemorative coin:
The first was in 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the second time was in 2009 when sixteen countries commemorated 10 years of the EMU and the third time in 2012 to mark 10 years of euro cash.
A professional jury selected five coin designs among the 62 designs submitted by Euro area mints.
Euro-area citizens and residents were invited to select the winning design by public web-voting until 27 May 2015.
The winning design, with 30% of the online vote, was by the hand of Georgios Stamatopoulos from the Bank Of Greece.
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So a big congratulations to Mr. Stamatopoulos.
The only question now, is whether he will be designing drachma by the time the new coin is issued later this year.
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Thst's like an American winning a contest to write the Canadian national anthem.
Oh wait....
New chocolate coin? Yummy! ;-)
Looney
Good design. 12 people/countries around the Euro table. That´s the way it should be.
Disgusting socialism....we are happy European family building our common utopia...didn't this kind of shit disappear with Soviet block and their eternal peace festivals?
Why is it that they always use the color of the barbarous, useless relic to signify something important?
Gold medal, Gold standard, Goldmine, Golden Boy, Good as gold, Golden opportunity, "That's Gold Jerry."
For something that is simply tradition, it sure seems to be a monumental influence on people.
pods
At least this is the final year of this whole EU thing...
1985-2015, not that great of a run.
If you look at the rightmost stick guy, he's shitting on the guy below him. Trace it back, and it's definitely a shit train.
I said this below, human centipede.
Human Dominoes?
Maybe that Greek guy snuck one past the censor?
pods
Good design. 12 megaliths/tombs around the Circle of Sacrifice. That´s the way it should be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poulnabrone_dolmen
They have all lost* their heads.
*head not attached to body, go read some Hopi prophecy
ugly design as fuck, like greece, overall.
Kind of like the UNITED STATES of America?
I think it better to have 11 stars & 11 people holding hands.....but that's just me
Actually, it looks like "Ring around the Rosy... we all fall down".
Notice the dead/fallen ones surrounding the edges of the EU flag. Subtle, but it's there.
Why do I think it should be bleeding out?
They can't do blood on coins.
That last one on the bottom right of the coin, see that? It is Greece, just kind of floating up, up, and away... see how the rest of them are racking up to float away next? Bleeding out is just too graphic, sir.
Like "Carrousal" in Logan's Run?
WB - surely you can offer us something a little more appropriate?
I know it's too late for you to win the competition, but I'm guessing they wouldn't appreciate your unique interpretations like we can.
or like an American invasion...by a Canadian army into America.
The arrangement of people reminds me of a certain mechanism:
http://s30.postimg.org/izg04hxr5/coin.jpg
nice artwork
Tylers, the JuliaS account is hereby recommended for Image Upload capability
Contract work for GM?
Wonderbar.
For those who haven't seen one, a typical perpetual motion design, which always looks good on paper,
but doesn't work worth a damn;)
Perfect.
Ah, the G Spot.
All citizens of the american continent are americans.
Surprised he didn't put a Gyro on the front with all those little people eating it together...
Why don't you stick a hoagie up your @ss! Greece is the birthplace of everything you call worth living for! Why don't you show some respect to the people who are caught in the Rothchild spider web. If Greece goes down,you're next buddy!
Birthplace of everything worth living for? Like demcracy? No thanks. I prefer a constitutional republic.
I only upvoted yours because they do have some of the most beautiful women. Historically, yes. But what contributions has modern Greece made?
Likewise Syria, Iran and Palestine was very civilised cultures with a lot of art and science. That doesn't mean I respect Islam and everything these countries stand for today. If people in Greece really thinks they can lay back and lean on all the history, I think I may understand why the country works like it does. Modern Greece hasn't contributed much to anything. Well, it is nice they provide us with nice islands where we can go on holiday but apart from that, I can't think of anything else.
Who is Vangelis, Papanikolao, Theodorakis, Karatheodoris, Kazantzakis. I could go on,but it would be pointless, the Zion media keeps anything good from view............
What? No grown men playing leapfrog?
pods
Drop one of those POS coins in a glass of soda pop and the next morning you'll have a glass of clear fluid with sediment on the bottom.
So they are actually giant Sweet Tarts?
Zinc Tarts
But the small coins are made of Nordic Gold
/s
Wtf? I don't give a rat's ass about sexuality, but why does everything have to be so freaking gay?
They're all holding hands to avoid being sucked into the bankrupt EMU vortex Doc.
Because europeans are not ashamed to wear speedos, that's why.
The proper term is banana hammock.
You know, sometimes shame can be a good thing.
"People of Walmart" backs me up too.
pods
Rember our conversation about Pink Floyd and how everybody look the same going into the meat grinder? Notice how everybody looks the same in a communist piece of shit coin.
Making man-sausage ain't pretty.
The faces of the kids after they change over are scary as fuck too.
And, as a general word of warning, please do not watch The Wall on acid.
The cartoon imagery is first rate though. Nothing like that today.
pods
I strive to watch everything on acid.
You fat bastards in the U.S can't wear speedos!
we can wear them, but we know we shouldn't. Neither should you. That's the difference.
Listen up and listen good, little pardner. Ain't none of them Speedo things big enough ta fit me in it, see.
I let Trigger wear mine.
Dude, since when have you seen a fat lardass have a big dick! Skinny men have the big dick!
because jewish media is diversing the non-jewish youth in any possible way
you can do genocide and no one will even notice and the history-books in future will never mention
Since when is holding hands in a circle gay? It's probably that sick mind of yours thats the problem!
Since forever.
The sick minds belong to the communists who conceived of a coin like this. Notice the fact that everybody looks the same and there is nothing differentiating between the two sexes.
If the coin made a sound it would be "" Kum ba yah"
gay police alert!
Does it say 1 trillion Euro on the back? Is the outer ring mostly made of platinum? Is Krugman grinning somewhere?
Dr. Krugman is still the greatest critic of the EUR. That's a fact
Cute, that coin. With the usual "Children of the World imagery"
I'd prefer a "Viribus Unitis", but that's me
Oh, and Greeks still prefer the EUR. No amount of humour and cynicism has changed that
Ah, the suave Mr. Ghordius always shoving that knife ever so gently to those pathetic little greeks.....................enjoy the show while it lasts. By the way, I heard it might be coming to a theater near you-very soon indeed!
I paid lots and lots of taxes in Greece. I cheer for Greece, and have a Greek godson in Greece. Had business there and digged at Greek archeological sites
Now, what exactly would you wish me to do or say? I would never say "pathetic" and don't know what knife you are talking about
Looks like a sphincter made out of little sphincters. Wait.. thats the EU flag.
To me it looks like the people of the nation in a downward spiral, being swallowed by poor economic planning.
He should confer with Paul Krugman on how to design it to be revalued at $2 trillion instead, maybe add a little platinum here and there... and problem solved for all the PIIGS.
No Soros lizzard face cameo?
1985-2015 RIP
Yep, on the flip size they commemorate the war they almost managed to start with Germany...or would it be better to remond Germans about repatriation? Account number?
Again, the real news on Zero Hedge appears like it must have been plagiarized from The Onion ...
Perhaps a quadrillion Euro coin?
What could that commemorate?
In zimbabwe about three eggs.
Fuck me, i'm buying chickens and be a quadrillionair..........
Me be richer than all of them
dup
Marcello Ghandini or Pinninfarina whould have painted the coin centers "red" so they defaulted to Greek "faux~pas" gold... lol
The French were disqualified for painting the coins green and using the Ortolan as the EMU National Bird...
Looks like a child made it.
They seem to be holding hands as they swirl around a toilet bowl...
“From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There’ll be quite a lot of shouting. (1850)”
? Gustave Flaubert
I see dead people...around the flag!
That's funny money!
The final version will have two holes so that in the event the coins become worthless they can still be used as buttons.
Shouldn't the figures on the coin be bent over holding their ankles?
The Euro is more like the human centipede, I think, except sew the front and back one together too.
https://www.google.com/search?q=human+centipede&rlz=1C1ASUT_enUS464US464...
Holy Shit That's Sick! Musta been a German movie.
Yes, German.
Now it makes sense .... Ever so much like the EU ....
Fuck you, you mindless twit! You're time is coming soon-don't worry. The Rothchilds started with Greece and will finish with you western cunts!
Butt hurt much?
We make fun of everyone. It's all failing. Equal opportunity crash. Crash households, crash cities, crash countries, crash planet.
Grow some thicker skin or don't come to fight club. We all were born into it.
They're tossing eachother off.
Don't they have eagles in Europe or at least an oak leaf? Then make it solid golden and I might be a buyer.
Nigel Farage et al shriek like banshees whenever they see an Eagle
Romans, French, Germans all used the Eagle whenever thinking of having troops stationed in England
The Lion of England, inspired by the Lion of St. Marc, does not like Eagles, and Johnny English has a natural instinctive aversion of them
Except from it's renegade colony, of course
Oak Leaf? Don't get me started...
Its more than about time you spoke to an Englisher, a real one Ghordius just like me.
Who fucking told you that? Look back over every post I have ever made and see just what this 'Englisher' thinks of his common friends, just the same as he, all around the fucking world.
We just generally mother fucking hate government, ours mostly.
Wind your neck in son, you be making a scene.
;-)
Hey, no long no see! Sorry, clarification:
A Brit says Europe, means the Continent
A Yank says Europe, means The British Isles or Another Back Home
a classic case of vague labeling
Myself, being a Damn Toff, when I say Johny English I have your Toffs in mind, foremost. You know, those who are going to ask you the question: "Should the UK stay in the EU?". That includes Nigel Farage
I'm damn curious about the coming arguments. I'd love if you would give me your piece of mind about it
Oh, and I thought it was funny... failed
cheers! ;-)
You tell 'im mate, you tell 'im.
Okay, but what is it intended to commemorate???
It's commemorating 20 years of the European Trampoline Committee, and tries to represent the evolution of the currency "Snake" into an irrelevant subsidized springboard.
The asexual figurines portray the sheer unadulterated UNITY that pervades the EU, and exemplifies its democratic openness by granting the best design to a national from the Proud Nation that spawned democrapy.
(Do I really need a /s here?)
They're celebrating the waste of money thrown at the annual EuroVision Song Contest
I mean Jesus H Fucking Christ on a Lollipop Stick, how the fuck can governments waste so fucking much money year in and out on absolutely useless fucking tripe and crap with no rhyme or reason to exist except that it magically appeared on some fucking bureaucrat's scrap of paper.
People who think this shit up oughta be (fill in the blank) in public.
EuroVision? The worst part of it is how popular it is
Grannies, children, grown-ups you take usually seriously... get all transfoxed by the Idiot-Box. Love it, and worse...
... comment it for days
Bread and circuses Knuks, bread and circuses
Byte Me /s is not not necessary when you are telling the truth
If Greece could get the contract to also make 160 billion of these coins it could then use them to pay off its debt.
They just asked me to design the new Nobel Peace Prize. It'll show a bunch of people lying around resting in peace. I must say, I'm very honored.
Fuck you sincerely,
Charlie Manson, Folsom
hope he does a better job on the drchma.
If you faggots who are bustin' on the Greeks think you will escape the Rothchild apocalypse, I got news for you-YOUR NEXT IN LINE!
It is the Rothschilds and their ilk who will face the end, and soon.
http://biblehub.com/niv/revelation/18.htm
"Those who trust in their riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf." - Proverbs 11:28
We'll let Johnny and the boys serve up some tasty apocalypso music for you to enjoy the End Timestm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG6A6G9uzsQ
"Eurotrash cleanup in aisle 5, please."
Not so subtle design.
All the happy kids lined up to go in the grinder.
Show us a pic of the back side, where it says IOU 100B.
They are dancing the Sirtaki. Dancing straight into default.
Your next-enjoy the Rothchild ramming!
greek design should have image of a HUGE blood-sucking parasite, ie greece, draining the EU
Why won't they kick them out then Einstein? Huh? Can't hear your jibberish.................MOLON LAVE!
if you paid attention to what is going on in the EZ, and you had sufficient intelligence to understand it (obviously YOU do not), then you would see that the EZ countries ARE kicking greece out - good riddens vermin scum !!!!!!!!!!
I thought the blood sucking was the other direction. Who was the preditor here?
the greeks did the bond selling and loan taking AND not repaying, that makes them the blood-sucking lieing cheating deceiving defrauding parasites and thieves
Greece, the lamprey eel of the EU.
I heard they're also hosting the next FIFA.
OK, OK, I'll say it:
You just can't make this $#!+ up!
To be minted by the new Chinese ownership.
ugh dupe