Music & Science coins

Two topics that interest me (& beyond small metal discs) are classical music and science. In the ocean of emperors, kings and queens there are a few tiny islands where music and science reside. The table below shows the “islands”, honoring two of the three civilization's most important achievements with circulating coins (though some are classified as non-circulating - wrongly, if you ask me):

Thanks for taking the time to make this list and sharing it (especially since the Numista search does not filter all coins relevant to this topic). I agree that there is never enough scientists and composers/musicians on circulating coins, although there are more of them on banknotes.  
 

By the way, depending on your definition of a scientist, you could also add this circulating commemorative, celebrating the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.

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This following website lists many composers

https://www.composercoins.com/

Frenchlover

This following website lists many composers

https://www.composercoins.com/

 

Majority of these are not real coins. Just another money-making gimmick. I listed only coins that could actually buy you something in a local grocery shop or pay a bus fare. 

Deda Lebeda

By the way, depending on your definition of a scientist, you could also add this circulating commemorative, celebrating the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.

You are correct. Mathematics, although not really a science, is closely related to most sciences. 

Greece: there are two commemorative 2 euro coins dedicated to composers.

San Marino: Puccini.

There are several more Indian coins with scientists, mathematicians and classical musicians in the regular circulating denominations. off the top of my head,  atleast 5 

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Rs5 Mahanobolis 2015 scientist and statistician

Rs10 Homi bhabha 2009 atomic scientist

rs10 Subulaxmi 2021 classical carnatic singer 
 

I was thinking about Vikram Sarabhai too, but there is only a Rs100 coin. There will be another Rs100 for Vocalist Mohammad Rafi, but doesn’t fit your criteria 

Thank you all for adding some of the people I missed!

Not a coin, but our greatest scientist and his work on atoms is shown on our $100 note.

Sir Ernest Rutherford.

This is a note from the 1990s, but modern ones show pretty much the same thing.

Dejan

Frenchlover

This following website lists many composers

https://www.composercoins.com/

 

Majority of these are not real coins. Just another money-making gimmick. I listed only coins that could actually buy you something in a local grocery shop or pay a bus fare. 

Exactly. I think it's quite sad that such important composers as Bach or Beethoven appear much more often on overpriced “coins” from Cook Islands or Niue than on coins that could actually circulate in relevant countries (Germany and Austria in case of these two composers).

I guess that composers (same as scientists) are often considered too specific subject to be depicted on circulating coins compared to politicians or some generic state symbol (unfortunately). In my country, for example, there are several well-known composers, but none of them made it to circulating coins (although they appeared on several banknotes and non-circulating coins). At least we have countries like Austria or Germany. 

Your selection is for scientists and musicians. Not for science, music or art.

You selected to include some non circulating coins, but refused to do that for two non circulating coins dedicated to personalities and several general science/music/art coins in Lithuania. Plus we had musician on 1000 litas note.

Italy gets only five. I assume you counted heads and not items on their euros.

Also how interesting all of those countries except India and Brazil are in Europe or USA/Canada.

Here's one of those British scientific conders for you, from way back in 1792

Apologies for condition, the coin shows the Inclined Plane at Keighley and the Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale, which is still there after nearly a quarter of a millienium!

Even older is the Macclesfield conder halfpenny showing a woman sitting on top of a cogwheel, holding a drill pivot and behind her some kind of press, on the other side a modern beehive. Not strictly technology, but an indication that the Industrial revolution meant business.

The Storer “Medicina in nummis” catalog includes many scientists and medical-themed coins, tokens, and especially medals. Niggl's Musikermedaillen might be of interest (just medals in this one)