How Far Back Can We Go? Seventh Edition! Ended At 1380 Waiting On 1379

1999 Bicentennial of Gorge Washington's death $5

1999 Bulgaria 50 stotinki:

Chile 1 peso:

Mexico 10 centavos:

Spain 25 pesetas:

Netherlands Antilles 1999 1 cent:

Some Euro coins (not circulated until 2002):
Spain 1, 5 and 10 cents:



Finland 5 cents:

Belgium 1 cent 1999 showing large and small star varieties:

1998 UK Two pence:

1998 UK 50 pence (National Health Service 50th anniversary):

1998 Guernsey One penny:

1998 Isle of Man Two Pounds:

1998 Falkland Islands One penny and Ten pence:


1998 Portugal 5 and 200 Escudos:


1998 Jordan 1 Dinar:

1998 Czech Republic 10 haleru:

1998 Macau 1 Pataca:

1998 Gambia 50 bututs:

1998 was a good year.



In NZ only the 5c and $2 were issued and now we are back in the Raphael Maklouf portrait of Her Majesty




1998 Australian group included a Bass and Flinders 50 cents (The Bass strait separating Tasmania and the mainland, was first discovered by White people in 1798, Aboriginals around 51,798BC)

1998 Howard Florey C mint mark dollar coin





The silver proof had the IRB portrait.

U.K. 50p - European Union


U.K. 50p - National Health

3M - Yes I know, UK switched fully to IRB in 1998, but generally the rest of us had to wait a year. Never knew about that beautiful silver piece. Fiji ironically never switched remaining with Maklouf through to 2010!

And someone showed a Belize coin from the 2010s that still had the 1953 Colonial Gillick portrait on it!


Norwegian single Krone coin



Spain 5 Pesetas - very small, the Spanish really shrunk their coins in the 1990s.



Uganda - 100 shillings (Sorry really muddy old photo)

1997 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Map of the World NCLT A mint mark (for Adelaide) Australian dollar coin