Series of illustration for the Commemorative Silver Coin Set "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (2007).

Client : New Zealand Mint Limited.
The obverse design by the Raphael Maklouf .

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devised by British author and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for prowess at using logic and astute observation to solve cases. He is perhaps the most famous fictional detective, and indeed one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters.

Of the many incarnations of Sherlock Holmes on film and television, surely the most curious and intriguing is the Russian television series featuring Vasily Livanov as Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Watson. Filmed entirely in Russia ( then Soviet Union) between 1979 and 1986 , it consist of five series broken over eleven episodes. The series was deemed on of the most successful in the history of Eastern Europe television.

New Zealand Mint has been granted permission from the film studio to use the images of the actors for creation illustrations for this Sherlock Holmes Coin Series.

The images are shown at this size and with Copyrights property credit watermark by the written permission of the New Zealand Mint Limited for the author's personal portfolio and on-line portfolio presentation purpose only .