The font on the back of these coins is seriously awful. They may as well have used Comic Sans. It's that bad and detracts from the whole thing.
Hopefully the next minting fixes that. It's good otherwise.
Hmm.. What suggestion do you have for a font then? Feel free to post something that might look better.
Most older coins around the world use Serif fonts, like for example your Garamonds, Baskersvilles, et cetera.
Here's a coin of the country I'm in:
To me this looks like ITC Modern or Clarendon.
You can say, OK, well that's not modern enough for me. Most modern coins use say some sans-serif, but not just any sans-serif, Optima is a popular one.
Here's a Canadian Maple Leaf:
New Philippine peso:
Now, the font on the obverse is a good choice. It's a rare one, I don't think I've ever seen Gotham on a coin, but it looks good to me.
But then look at the reverse. You would be hard pressed to find huge bold letters on coins anywhere in the world, in fact in my research I found none. They just look silly and inelegant, like a comic book "WAM!" on a silver round.
I actually haven't a clue what font this is. It looks to me like a hideous cross between
Binner and
Alons.
As if this weren't bad enough, the kerning is off. Look at the space between "E" and "R" in SILVER as opposed to the space between "L" and "V" in "SILVER".
You might think the type is not such a big deal, but given how much choice there is in physical Bitcoin (and ideed physical silver rounds, because these are unfunded you compete directly with those
), I would much rather have a well designed one than a silly one. Type is the most visible part of this coin since it takes up most of the reverse.
