Your Favorite Foreign (Non Us) Coin?

That is definitely a very nice design.

Nice, and an error to boot.

For my own country, I really like the shillings with the Ram design.




For the rest of the world, my favourite is the Portuguese 50 centavos.



Steve

feels off doesn't it? like handling a bunch of halves, then go to picking up a quarter, the quarter just doesn't feel right anymore? Cause you are used to the size and weight of one coin, you forget the other which is lesser. Aluminum weighs less, but you pick up a quarter and say that Franc and you can clearly tell a difference in weight in your hand so it feels off. Also being very good at heat transfer second to silver it has a totally different feel that a cupro-mickel coin. Thats whats so fun for me finding foreign coins, they come in a roll with quarters or nickels, but look and feel different for the same size and shape. You think what must the other person feel when they pick up a US coin that is heavier and a different composition. Its just like holding a Morgan in one hand and an Ike in the other.. they just feel vastly different but you could tell which was which without looking most likely.

I don't collect foreign coins but some of those may make me start.

Some may debate whether this is really a "coin" since it isn't meant to be circulated, but it does have a face value and was produced by an actual government mint:

I like the designs or the stories you can get about the designs or times when the coins were made.

Take the 1950, 50 pfennig and the 2009 NA USD designs. both have women planting something, but what do those designs mean to the countries at the time or in any part of history that brought about that design.

Or just some designs you can imagine why they are there like the 1 and 5-cent I have from the Bahamas, a ocean that people go for represented by a starfish, and a pineapple, for all the drinks served on the beach at resorts. its like the coins themselves are advertising the country and its exports or entertainment value..like a tourist brochure. Compared to the State and ATB Quarters which just like oddities for the US designs. I wonder if any ATB Quarter has made anyone so far want to go to that national park yet? Everglades quarter doesn't really want to make me vacation or spend my money there like the Bahamas coins do.