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### Relief Sculpture - Coins
Coins are a type of relief sculpture. They are modeled in clay and transferred to a harder material for making the reduction. There are many companies that specialize in coinage. Oftentimes, they are also gold and silver brokers. As you can see, profiles make the best image for low relief.
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### Relief Sculpture
Relief sculpture can be decorative, often allegorical. Civic buildings show citizen accomplishments, heroism, and ideals of a civic society. Religious institutions often combine decorative reliefs with religious stories depicting saints and angels in columns and walls.
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### Garden Sculpture
Fountains and sundials are popular garden motifs.
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### Architectural Sculpture
Civic buildings such as courthouses, libraries, city offices, and churches include sculpture. Banks often have sculpture reliefs, and corporate buildings often have sculptures representing their shared values.
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### Monument and Mausoleum
Scale, proportion, and propriety. This is the Prince Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens, United Kingdom.
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### Portrait Sculpture
Scale, proportion, and propriety. Sir Isaac Newton, Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge.
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