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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 20, May 11, 2014, Article 19

MORE CAVE PAINTING ART IN NUMISMATICS

Bill Hyder submitted the following regarding our discussion of cave painting art on coins. Thanks! -Editor

Good start on a list. An obvious listing would be the Norwegian 1994 1500 Kroner gold olympic coin that features a petroglyph of a skier.

French artist Edouard Righetti created medals depicting images from Lascaux in 1986. (I have only seen pictures, I would love to find a set.) A Spanish medal (alas I do not have the details, but it honors a scientist I believe) features one of the bulls from Altamira on its reverse.

MaloneBeach bronze medal

I do own a James MaloneBeach bronze medal which is a clever play on cave art, or rock art as it is more commonly known in the US. His "marks" on the earth are airport maps copied from flight magazines. My specialty as an archaeologist is prehistoric art or cave art if you will. I could not pass on the opportunity to acquire the medal.

One could be tempted to add the 1959 Alexandria, Minnesota so-called dollar (H&K) 520 showing a Native American carving on a stone block.

The list can be expanded if you include standing stones (studied as part of the field in archaeology), especially a series of four medals created by British artist Ron Dutton including pieces for Stonehenge and Avebury. You could expand the list to Easter Island and its stone statues. Although not technically "cave art," all fall within the field of prehistoric art.

Interesting medal! Thanks for the additions to our list. Does anyone have images of some of these, such as the Dutton medals? -Editor

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