The New Zealand mint has issued a set of coins depicting characters from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Images of Holmes and Watson on these coins come from the Russian series of movies about Sherlock Holmes.
On the back side of the coins is the Queen of England.
Actor Vasili Livanov:
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