The Woman On The €0.10.

I did go through 6 mornings of the "Oh--yeah. There're two guys sleeping together on the couch bed in my living room. Now, I shall try not to wake them while I go make oatmeal in the kitchen."
Hahaha. It's all good. Then one morning (I think it was the Wednesday), I saw that scattered and piled on the table and floor of the living room ...... were books. Of course, seeing books light a fire in my blood and I inevitably let them draw me in... there were random (Arts!!) novels, a bit old looking etc. Anyways, the morning when I discovered the books also happened to be the morning one of the guys on the couch bed stirred. By the time I'd finished my breakfast, the shorter, dark curly-haired guy (oh I guess it's no harm to reveal that his name's Baptiste-- so French, eh?) had gotten up and I greeted him good morning etc. He was very nice, and we talked and I showed him the most AWESOME POSTER I EVER BOUGHT (from the McGill poster sale a while back), and basically on the poster there was this woman in the corner and he told me that was on the back of an euro coin. Which was very exciting and interesting. And he pulled out some coins from his pocket and showed me! Twas very cool, and while I was looking at it he said to me that I could have it! Yay- you know where that's going! My coin collection back home! €0.10 .. It was a really shiny one too~
I'm excited to show you guys the poster sometime. I almost mistook it for the work of MC Escher, but after a bit of googling, it turned out to be a tribute done purposely in the style of MC Escher- it's damn cool! I don't want to describe it because it'll be too hard, but it's basically like a mish-mash of art. It's all thrown together, so it gives an I-Spy feel of it, and what impressed me was that I asked him to look for the different pieces of art in the poster, and he recognized and identified so much of it. Turns out, he knows a lot of this because his mother's an artist. This just keeps getting Frencher, doesn't it? I mean, one of my cliche images of France is an artist with those droopy artist hats (what are they called again, JYT? The hat you wanted?) on a balcony with the Eiffel Tower (grey, strong, solid) right behind, with a Parigot style singing wafting up along with fresh bread from the street below. I'm aware how cliche this scene is.

Oh no, I got sidetracked again. I meant to tell you about the woman on the edge of the poster, who was on the euro coin.
Wikipedia::
[The French design by Laurent Jorio depicts a sower in a field with a rising sun behind her. The image is taken from the previous one French franc coin designed by Louis Oscar Roty. Oscar Roty's art nouveau design reset the global trend, breaking from traditional static portraits to a full body, strident figure sowing the seeds of good fortune. For the euro coins, Jorio added hatching each side representing the French flag with the year to the left and the letters RF (République française) to the right.]

Another cool thing I skylights has learned about the €0.10 coin while reading Wikipedia-
[The reverse side of the coin depends on the issuing country. All have to include twelve stars (in most cases a circle around the edge), the engravers initials and the year of issue. New designs also have to include the name or initials of the issuing country.]
So obviously, the issuing country of my coin is France. Teeheehee.