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1901 -- United States, 10 dollars:

UPDATE: In the time I typed this post, we had the rich people snipe in and place their golden coins amongst the real British people's coins.

So that is why all my 1890s - 1900s farthings are darkened!
Imagine that confusing a half sovereign for a farthing a coin worth 1/480th of it!

The rest of my 01 is mediocre - but interesting. This teensy weensy tiny 1 Penni of Russian Finland.





It's like 14mm and about the same size and worth as the Russian Polushka (¼ Kopeck).

Another one of those superworn Belgian 50 cent coins - courtesy of my junk silver purchase.





Featuring Leopold Longbeard, the butcher of the Congo. Seriously in 1903 Roger Casement and Leon Morel investigated the Congo Free state and found a regime demented by greed, Rubber barons were forcing Africans to gather rubber for the profitable tyre trade need for bicycles and those new fangled ottymobile things and many of the Africans had their hands chopped off for not collecting enough rubber.

Even by the uber racist standards of the era, this behaviour shocked a lot of people.

I have nothing to contribute today, but really liked that one @princetane (not that I have any objection to looking at big flashy gold coins, either)

1901 Canada.
One cent.



(Coin #2)

1901 IHC:

1901-O Morgan dollar:

... and, especially for Princetane, a 1901 Belgian 50 centimes even worse than his!


... and finally, an unofficial medallion commemorating the death of Queen Victoria and the accession of King Edward VII:

It was about time, I think. And even though the king and Swedish conservatives were very much against dissolving the union, it ended peacefully and without any lasting animosity. Of course, when the Norwegians struck huge quantities of oil in the North Sea in the 60s/70s, some people were thinking "Hmm, the union dissolution, was it really completely legal...?"

I was planning to just show my Sweden 1901, 10 kronor, gold today, but @pepactonius has already shown one (and his is nicer than mine), so I'm taking another angle at it.

1901 was the last year for 10 kronor coins, after that it wasn't until 1991 (apart from some commemorative issue) that such coins were minted again. And then of course not in gold, but in an alloy of copper, aluminium, zinc and tin with a kind of goldish look, which also goes under the name "Nordic gold". The portrait is of king Charles XVI (still king today and whose great great grandfather is on the 1901 coin). Comparing the two, I have no doubt which one I prefer...