How Far Back Can We Go? Seventh Edition!

Overall I have to say this version is not the big hitter I expected. Is it because we are still to recent. there really is only 6 or 7 of us and I would say that Trigg and Rob are putting the bulk of stuff in.

I take responsibility for some old and hazy photos and promise to get my act together in the next few days. I am not so familiar with the early parts of these threads as I only started posting big time in February 2020 and by that stage I only started posting in the 6th edition by the time we reached the early 1980s. I noticed the period back to around 1950 was like this and it really picked up around 1945.

A coin or two




Australian 5c and $2 coin from 2018 - standard circulation coins (The Wrigleys plain chewing gum rather than Hubba Bubba)

2018 Australian 100 Years of the ANZAC Spirit dollar coin

Actually they issued that design from 2014 to 2018 with the 2014 being very common and the others less so.

I open my 2017 selection with German climate coins again. This was the first year of them and it showed the Tropical Zone, apparently a parrots eye view of landing on a high jungle tree. Red was the colour of the Polymer ring.




Various shades of red appeared in the rings from the 5 mints and none of these coins are that easy to find now.


The heads again shows the same eagle and the date 2017.

However that is not the end of this series, there is one more coin to come in 2016!

2017 British 2 pence:

Commemorative 50p's from the UK in 2017 were plentiful... Isaac Newton:

Benjamin Bunny:

Mr Jeremy Fisher:

Tom Kitten:

2017 UK gold sovereign - the strange privy mark to the left of the date is to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the milled gold sovereign:

Great Britain 50p - Peter Rabbit


U.S.A. quarter - Ellis Island


Australia 50c - XY GT HO Phase III Falcon


Canada 25c - The Stanley Cup


Hungary 50 forint - Fina World Championships


Japan 500 yen


North Macedonia 10 denari


Poland 5 zlotych - Holy Trinity Chapel


Switzerland 1/2 franc

Bubblegum but beautiful. Just because its bubblegum does not mean I don't like it. I would not have you fishing your tills to find them for me. I am a hubba bubba boy!

One guy called "Brismike" on Numista, has taken offense at me calling these coins bubblegum - he does not realise its all good fun. The cheapness and availability of these coins makes them hits. Other countries like the UK or New Zealand seem to make them overpriced NCLT or issue miniscule quantities of them, but like the USA, Australia gets it right and here is my 2017 selection of the finest bubblegum from that year!


First we have Possum Magic, some kiddies book about a shy possum called Hush discovering herself and becoming visible. The top coin has her being invisible and sad, but as he sees her tail she becomes satisfied (Just pray she does not end up in NZ!)


We also have our standard 2017 $2 coin and a very nice Hall of Remembrance $2 coin and a laurel leaved remembrance coin. As we go further back, the number of fancy $2 coins dries up. The Hall one may be my favourite of all the $2 ring coins to date


Obverses for those of you in an obverse frame of mind.

The world is opening up for me now



Czechia 2017 - 5 Korun, showing a stylised Charles Bridge in Praha
The design has been used since 1993, but this is nice (Sorry about photo).



Hungary 50 Forint 2017 - sorry another hazy photo from 2020.
This coin like Czechia is also a 1990s design still be used 25 years later.



Phillipines - 5 Piso new generation coinage 2017. This coin is already collectable as it's shape was shanged to polygonal in 2019 as it's size was too close to the more worthless 1 Piso coin (Although that is worth 3 cents, and this is 15 cents!)

Just as well, we don't have 25c coins in circulation.