Malta's most beautiful euro coins

Jacqueline Calleja (November 17) is of course right about the religious inspiration of the EU flag and God's sense of humour but I can think of another instance of the latter that is even closer to home.

Readers of The Times may remember the uproar from the local secularist camp when somebody suggested that we should have Mazzuoli's statue of the Baptism of Christ represented on our euro coins. In the end the idea was rejected; but what do we have instead?

Instead we have a cross, indeed the eight-pointed cross of the crusading Order of St John. A more potent symbol of Christianity then this could hardly have been found.

And, incidentally, how beautiful our euro coins are! Speaking for myself, I don't think any other country's are as beautiful.

Noel Galea Bason, our engraver, and the Central Bank of Malta should really be congratulated for them.

As for those who expressed reservations about mixing religion with money, they need not worry. What the Scripture says is that "the love of money" is the root of all evil, not money itself. Money per se is neither here nor there, and Jesus used it too.