Nouvelle pièce de £2 : Shakespeare & tête de mort, mais une variante peu commune à cause de la présence de la suture métopique qui normalement disparait après quelques années.
▻http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/01/04/heres-the-anatomical-story-behind-that-new-2-shakespeare-skull-coin
Britain’s Royal Mint released a slew of new coins on January 1, but the £2 one with a skull caught my attention — not only because it’s part of a set that honors William Shakespeare, but also because it features an uncommon anatomical variant: a persistent frontal or metopic suture.
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why does the skull have a metopic suture? There is nothing within the Bard’s play that would suggest Yorick had one. However, in a 2001 study published in the Journal of Anatomy, researchers Tsunehiko Hanihara and Hajime Ishida found that skeletons from Europe and the U.K. had much higher frequencies of metopism than did skeletons from the New World, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. So I asked Royal Mint PR Executive Jenny Manders for clarification.
Manders informed me that John Bergdahl is the coinage artist for the Shakespeare tragedies skull design and that “his original drawings were researched using images of skulls from a number of resources, any one of which may have shown this variant, which then appeared in the final design by default rather than for reasons of any design intent.”
