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OK, time to move away from the Islamic countries. Here's one I prepared earlier... the top pic is from the obverse; the number is from the reverse (and lets you determine which specific coin this is). The two pics are not to scale.  Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
 Poland
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Saarland 20 fanken 1954!
series consists of 10-20-50-100 franken
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Australia
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Hmmm. 5 minutes. Have to try harder than that next time.  Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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  2 is the face value. Images are approximatly to scale. Colors altered, of course  |
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United States
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Russia, Nicholas I, 2 Kopeks 1837 EM HA
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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Yes it is! That was much faster than I expected as well  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pertinent areas obscured..   |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Oh blast.. just as I think I can guess some of these, you come out with a hard one!
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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All I can say is that it's not a MTT, not a Frankfurt Thaler, or a Russian 18th century rouble. In other words, I admit I have no idea. |
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Australia
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Eritrea 1 tallero 1918, KM# 5. I've posted mine here several times, in the "what's your favourite coin" threads. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Have you? I must have missed it... but I think it's my favorite as well. It's a beautiful coin. Some background: The serious shortage of Maria Theresa thalers during World War I and the consequent rise in value of these coins suggested Italian government trying another way taking into due account the criticisms on the tallero eritreo. Accordingly, in 1918, a new silver coin was opted for, denominated tallero d'Italia (thaler of Italy), which resembled as closely as possible the Maria Theresa thaler in all its details, including that of being a full bodied money, completely independent of the Italian monetary system (..). The mintage was free, just as with the Maria Theresa thaler, and furthermore its silver content was higher this time (0.835 fine). The new Italian thalers, like the Austrian coins, were entitled to circulate alongside the metropolitan currency, but without a fixed exchange rate. In fact, the value of the new coin, as well as the value of the Maria Theresa thaler, was allowed to fluctuate following the price of silver.
In spite of its beauty and proper requisites, the tallero d'Italia, at first, was not easily accepted by the natives because of their conservatism (it differed in some details crucial for them) and because it could not be used for trade with bordering countries (..). The Italian authorities, from their part, did not persevere in this direction, as they perhaps should have done. In the meantime their views on this matter had changed and the new policy was to encourage the use of metropolitan currency in the Colony. The mint therefore produced only 550,000 pieces of the Italian thaler on the whole (..).from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....ct_id=667266You're up, Sap! |
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OK, going on past form, this shouldn't take you guys too long...  Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Poland
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Sao Tome e Principe, 0.5 dobra, brass, 1977. This reminds me how few countries I've got and how many coins I haven't even seen . Edited by DL20K
09/26/2008 11:29 am
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United States
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This is the best game ever! Can't wait for the next winner  |
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Poland
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I'll post the next one once my guess is confirmed by Sap. If I missed.. then someone else will post the next coin |
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