ill iterate: Coin From Ipanima

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Coin From Ipanima

Brazilian sculptor doesn't want the Japanese mint to use his design on their new 500 yen piece.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: MMmmm.... Japanese mints... (drool) they are so delicious, so... metal-y, unless you get the orange flavored ones, mmm.... orange flavored ones... yummy....; May 1, 2008 at 12:43 AM
Anonymous said...: so this coin was designed by a Brazilian? and did they discontinue the coin? is it rare?; May 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Anonymous said...: mmm... Japanese mints; May 3, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Anonymous said...: Orange Japanese mints.... yum; May 4, 2008 at 11:16 AM
ill iterate said...: Ken-

According to the story (there's a link in my blog item to it), the Japanese mint started to make these coins to commemorate Japanese immigration to Brazil, but they didn't get copyright or trademark permission or whatever, from the right person, i.e. the sculptor who originally created the image. Anyway, they asked the sculptor and he said no. The coin was never distributed, but they've apparently melted all the metal to re-make a different version.; May 4, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Mmm... Japanese PepperMINTs; May 5, 2008 at 9:10 PM

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