World's Most Beautiful Coin

I know it's been a long time since I don't write a thing around here and even more time since last time I did it in English. Anyways, I was reading the news and I was surprised to read an article about the 25th meeting of the World's Coin Hauses where they vote for the new most beautiful coin of the next two years until a new voting is made.

This year a mexican coin was selected. It is a coin made of pure silver and represents the Aztec calendar and the different coat arms that have been used throughout mexican history. The recognition of this coin was made in Busan, Korea last May 15th.



There is no doubt about the complexity for producing this coin (Piedra de los Soles) and its beauty. Moreover, this article made me remember about a coin that is not silver-made but has a lot of symbolisms, at least for the football fans.


This is the commemorative 1986's worldcup coin. I want to share this coin with you since I'm sure you'll remember this coin and for those who have never seen it, to take a look at this interesting coin. The coin was around mexican currency during the second half of the eighties and was gradually gone but one can still find it around in collector's houses and an antiques markets. By the way, the picture of the coin is self made and I proudly keep a couple of them. Finally, here's a video of one of the best goals ever scored and was performed during Mexico's 1986 worldcup. There is no need to present this one, enjoy:

Crystal Frontier

The new wall being built along the border between Mexico and U.S.A is one of the best ways of showing the world that human sometimes (if not most of the time) do not learn from past experiences. Just to mention the Berlin wall and the Israel-Palestine wall have shown us that walls do not fulfill their goals of separating people, towns, cultures, or just the rich from the poor countries. I think that no matter how many walls the government from the U.S.A builts, people (drug smugglers and migrants mainly) will find a way to keep sneaking into the "freedom" land. Instead, both governments should together try to develop new policies in order to alleviate or mitigate this phenomena.

In relation to music, the border has inspired so many bands and there are tons of songs about what is to live in any side of the frontier. Here's a song I like it as an example.