Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

Sounds good to me.

@ spruett001



Suggestion
At least give each participant of this round their scores before officially proceeding to the next round.

Now I'm wondering what to choose as the next challenge...

The problem is, if I post a common modern, someone will post the exact same thing on day 1 and it will just be boring.
And if I post something rare or ancient, there'd be no end of complaints that nobody has anything remotely similar.

The obvious solution is to post a scarce variety; the problem there is that I don't actually collect by variety, and could hardly care less about what particular variety my coins are (OK, if I had a pre-1921 Morgan dollar, I would've probably tried to look up the VAM, but I don't have one of those so far).

I thought of posting a coin from a minor German state and allowing any other German state to count as 1 point for "approximate country".
But then I looked at my previously uploaded images and found a coin that's almost perfect for this challenge
I'd need to take another photo, though - the existing one is a bit blurry (it's from the period when I already took my photos with my smartphone but hadn't yet found its flash function).

...For the record, no, it's not the 25 rubles 2018. I thought of posting that one, but I didn't want two Russian coins in a row

Yeah c'mon @j1m. With a build up like that, you gotta give us the next challenge soon!

Ok fair enough.

I'm not completely sure what point system is to be used but I'll give it a shot using january1may's 6-point system. I'm not sure what counts as an "approximate match", either.

january1may: 5 points (date close enough for being in the same century?)

Dorado: 2 points (Approximate country [USSR] & denom. [a form of ruble] match?)

pepactonius: 3 points on both (approx. date matches)

Arkie: 4 points (date not close enough)

bd251: 2 points (I don't even know what that is...)

Joseph7420: 3 points (approx. country)

Coopertron5000: 2 points (exact country)

bungle: 2 points (exact country)

Sorry, I'm not too familiar with those coins so, that's the best I can come up with. What does everyone think?

P.S. I decided to "declare" a winner because nearly a full week had passed since the challenge coin was posted. That's too long.

To make it more "user friendly", I suggest 3 days for exact or similar examples to be posted after the challenge coin. If no one can get a single point, then a new challenge coin should be posted by the original challenger for the round.

As far as "approximate", the country should be at least another official government controlling the same territory (expressed with the last coin with the difference between Russia and the USSR).

The date must be in the same century to be approximate.

The denomination should be of the same unit. For example, 10 rubles is close to one ruble but, 10 kopeks does not count as close to one ruble. Likewise, three shillings is close to one shilling but, three pence is not. The qualifier is the standard, not the quantifier if that makes sense.

That's the best I can come up with and it's good that some of the quirks can be worked out so early.

...Apparently, for a good 16 hours nobody cared enough to comment on my previous post

But I expect to be unable to access this forum much over the next few hours, so I might as well post this challenge anyway.


You might recognize this coin from an earlier thread featuring it.

Specifically, this is the rare silver coin that I accidentally convinced a dealer was aluminium




Yemen, Mutawakkilite Kingdom of, Imam Yahya bin Muhammad.
1/10 riyal (Y#5.5), 1362 or 1364 AH (1943 or 1945 AD).

Unclear overdate - 1362/44 or 1364/43 or 1364/52 (wasn't able to find good pictures of two of those three; the remaining one, 1364/43, is similar but inconclusive).


I thought that the overdate was a clear 1364/43, but 1362/44 is at least as likely, so I'm allowing either dates to count under the "exact date" category. I'm definitely not looking for any specific overdate!
Approximate date should probably include the entire Y#5.5 type range (1921-1947).

As described in the previous post, I'm willing to count any Yemen government for approximate country (even if it didn't occupy the same territory as the kingdom).

As for approximate denomination... I'll say that anything denominated as "1/10 riyal" is exact, and anything that can be truthfully described as 1/10 of a riyal, rial, or real, is approximate.
But I'll think more about it if/when we start getting examples